South America Sorting Mats

Countries of the World Sorting Mats South America

Created by: Randi Smith Teacher Directions South American Sorting Mats These sorting mats are great for approximately 3rd-9th graders to learn about and/or review their knowledge of countries. Print on card stock, slide sorting mats and answer keys into page protectors and cut apart sorting cards. You may laminate if desired. Have students lay out five mats and the corresponding cards around the mats. Then, have them use their knowledge and critical thinking skills to match the cards to the sorting mats. They may need to research some of the answers. For younger children, you may choose not to lay out some of the cards, such as government structure. The answer key is included to allow students to self-check their work after completing the sorting mats. Note: When not in use, I store cards in plastic bags and then slide the cards, mats, and answer keys into a slot of an expandable folder that holds all of our sorting mats. ©2018 Randi Smith www.peanutbutterfishlessons.com Additional Activities 1. Find each country on a globe or world map. 2. Look up videos of people speaking the languages of the different countries. 3. Look up recipes for some of the foods and make them! 4. Lay the countries out in a sequential row or column based upon their areas or their populations. (You many want to use all 10 countries for this.) 5. Calculate the population density of each country by dividing the number of people by the area. The answer will be reported in “people per square mile”. Place countries in a sequence based upon their population density. How does this change the order from #1? Discuss the challenges of low vs. high density countries. 6. Look up the different government structures of each country. Write a short summary of each type and/or make a chart showing the similarities and differences of each type. 7. Research more about each country…the terrain/biomes, history, arts and culture, etc. ©2020 Randi Smith www.peanutbutterfishlessons.com Try our other Sorting Mats:

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Set 1 Set 2 Brazil Chile Colombia Ecuador Argentina Bolivia Peru Paraguay Venezuela Uruguay

These countries are included in this packet and the color of their mats and cards are noted here.

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Population South Capital Spanish 48,258,494 2019

São Paulo America Area Area Federal 916,445 km2 2,780,400 km2 Presidential Bogotá Population Constitutional Population 28,887,118 Republic Buenos Aires 44,938,712 2018 2019

Lima Area Unitary Federal 1,285,216 km2 Presidential Presidential Caracas Constitutional Constitutional Population Republic Republic 31,237,385 2017

Unitary Federal for Pieces out Presidential Presidential Republic Constitutional Republic South

Feijoada Stew of beans with Brigadeiro America beef & pork. Chocolate fudge balls

Bandeja Paisa Patacones Meal of a variety of foods, including beans, Fried green plantains rice, meat and more.

Ceviche Fish cured in citrus juices.

Asado Locro Photo credit for patacones (cropped): Squash stew https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Patacones_- Traditional Barbecue _Barranquilla.jpg Pachamanca Photo Credit Asado: Photo credit for Bandeja Paisa (cropped): https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bife_de_chorizo_(2).jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bandeja_paisa_(508 Meat baked with hot 2434401).jpg stones. Locro Attribution: http://www.recetasgourmet.com.ar ©2020 Randi Smith www.peanutbutterfishlessons.com It declared A large, mostly Part of the Inca Was home to the Empire. Then independence from

tropical country Norte Chico - Cut Inhabited by early colonized by Spain Spanish that borders 9 civilization, the and gained colonization in American tribes oldest civilization other countries as independence in 1861. 1821 and is one of until about 1500 for Pieces out well as the in the Americas. when the Organized itself as a the most urbanized Atlantic ocean. federation of Spaniards came countries in South provinces. and made it into America. the New Kingdom of Granada.

Machu Picchu South 60% of the Has the second Subtropical in the country is in the most biodiversity in Originally home to north and polar in Amazon

the world and part America tribal nations, it the far south. rainforest. The of the Amazon rain became a Also contains the Andes and a large forest lies within it. Portuguese colony highest, coastline are also in the 1500s (Aconcagua) and here. before gaining lowest (Laguna Has the world’s independence in del Carbón) largest known oil 1822. points in the reserves. Americas.

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America and the mountains to the - Cut rest of South Caribbean coast to America, it is the Amazon basin. out Pieces for Pieces out influenced by Teatro Colón many cultures. Earliest art comes A large Carnival is Bueno Aires is from the Andean held every year known for its civilizations. They featuring many theatre. Corrientes often used gold, dance groups in a Ave. is known as an silver, and “intellectual parade. ceramics. Broadway”. South Roman Catholic: Pabellón criollo 64.6% Catholic: 73% Catholic: 62.9% Rice, shredded beef Protestant: Protestant: 14% None: 18.9% in stew, and stewed 22.2% None: 11% Protestant: 15.3% America Arepas black beans. None: 8% Other: 2% Other: 2.9% Made from ground Other: 5.2% maize dough.

Brasília Catholic: 76% Catholic: 71% Protestant: 18% Protestant: 17% Bogotá None: 5% None: 8% Other: 1% Other: 4% Columbia Buenos Aires

Lima

Caracas

Photo Credit for Angel’s Falls: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Salto_del_Angel-Canaima-Venezuela03.JPG Check Your Work Brazil Brasília Peru Lima -Portuguese; São Paulo -Spanish; Lima -Federal Presidential Constitutional Republic -Unitary Presidential Republic -Area: 8,515,767 km2 -Area: 1,285,216 km2 -Food: Feijoada, Brigadeiros -real -Food: Ceviche, Pachamanca -Roman Catholic: 64.6% -sol -A large, mostly tropical country that borders 9 other… -Catholic: 76% -Originally home…it became a Portuguese colony… -Was home to the Norte Chico civilization… -A large Carnival is held every year… -60% of the country is in the Amazon rainforest… Colombia Bogotá -Earliest art comes from -Spanish & English; Bogotá the Andean civilizations… -Unitary Presidential Constitutional Republic -Area: 1,141,748 km2 -Food: Patacones, Bandeja Paisa -peso Venezuela Caracas -Catholic: 73% -Spanish; Caracas -Inhabited by early American tribes until about 1500… -Federal Presidential -Has the second most biodiversity in the world… Constitutional Republic -Since it sits between Latin America and the rest of… -Area: 916,445 km2

Argentina Buenos Aires -Food: Arepas, Pabellón criollo -Spanish; Buenos Aires -bolivar soberano -Federal Presidential Constitutional Republic -Catholic: 71% -Area: 2,780,400 km2 -Food: Asado, Locro -peso -It declared independence from Spanish -Catholic: 62.9% colonization in 1821… -Part of the Inca Empire. Then colonized by… -Has the world’s largest known oil reserves. -Subtropical in the north and polar in the far south… -The terrain varies from the mountains to the -Bueno Aires is known for its theatre… Caribbean coast to the Amazon basin.

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©2020 Randi Smith www.peanutbutterfishlessons.com Spanish Area - Cut Capital 756,096 km2 out Pieces for Pieces out Spanish Population 17,574,003 Spanish & 36 Indigenous 2017 Languages Area Spanish & Guarani 283,561 km2

Population South Spanish 17,084,358 2018

Santiago America Area Area 176,215 km2 Unitary 1,098,581 km2 Presidential Quito Population Constitutional Population 3,449,285 Republic Santa Cruz de la Sierra 11,428,245 2018 2019

Asunción Area Unitary Unitary 406,752 km2 Presidential Presidential Montevideo Constitutional Constitutional Population Republic Republic 7,152,703 2019

Unitary Unitary Dominant-Party Presidential for Pieces out Presidential Constitutional Republic Republic South

Sopaipillas pasadas Fried pastry with Asado: Barbecue

sweet sauce Marraqueta: Bread America

Fanesca Ceviche Soup eaten Seafood stew during Holy Week.

Chipa Guasu Cake made with corn grains.

Maize, potatoes, and Salteñas Photo Credit: Salteñas beans are the staple https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Saltena4_lg.JPG Pastry with meat. ingredients.

Phot Credit: Chipa Guasu: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chipa_Guas%C3% Dumplings are BA.jpg popular and used to ©2020 Randi Smith www.peanutbutterfishlessons.com make vorí vorí soup Home of the Part of the Inca Colonized rather Atacama desert Empire and then Was the center of late and won - Cut which contains colonized by Spain Jesuit Missions in independence in many minerals until gaining the 1600s. 1828 after a struggle with Spain, including copper independence in for Pieces out and lithium. 1830. Portugal, Argentina, and Brazil. Much of the silver that supported the Spanish colonies was mined in this country. South Contains A group of The terrain consists mountains, indigenous people of grassy and lower, volcanoes, in this country, marshy plains and

Amazon jungle, America the Mapuche, some hills. This and the Galapagos were not allows for a very Islands. conquered by windy environment Spanish colonists. A landlocked at times. country that Contains a dense consists of part of network of river the Andes basins. mountains and plains.

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Has large natural gas reserves and supplies of After football The gaucho, a lithium. However, The best known art (soccer), basketball skilled horseman, is mining the lithium popular in art and is from the Quito would disturb the is the most popular School. salt flats. sport. storytelling. South

Roman Catholic: Catholic: 77% Roman Catholic: 45% 70% Protestant: 18% Protestant: 14%

Protestant: 17.2% America Unaffiliated: 37% Unaffiliated: 7% Other: 2% None: 9.3% Choripán Empanada Other: 9.9% Other: 3.5% Chorizo sandwich Pastry with meat.

Santiago Catholic: 88.3% None: 41.7% Protestant: 6.8% Quito None: 2.6% Catholic: 37.4% Other: 2.3% Other: 20.9% Columbia Sucre & La Paz

Asunción

Montevideo

©2020 Randi Smith www.peanutbutterfishlessons.com Check Your Work Chile Paraguay Asunción -Spanish; Santiago -Spanish & Guarani; Asunción -Unitary Presidential Constitutional Republic -Unitary Dominant-Party -Area: 756,096 km2 Santiago Presidential Republic -Food: Sopaipillas pasadas, Asado & Marraqueta -Area: 406,752 km2 -dollar -Roman Catholic: 45% -Food: Chipa Guasu, dumplings -Home of the Atacama desert which contains… -guaraní -A group of indigenous people in this country, … -Catholic: 88.3% -Folk music is popular and the national dance is... -Was the center of Jesuit Missions in the 1600s. -The terrain consists of grassy Ecuador Quito -Spanish; Quito and lower… -Unitary Presidential Constitutional Republic -After football (soccer), -Area: 283,561 km2 basketball … -Food: Ceviche, Fanesca -dollar Uruguay Montevideo -Catholic: 77% -Part of the Inca Empire and then colonized… -Spanish; Montevideo -Contains mountains, volcanoes, Amazon jungle… -Unitary Presidential -The best known art is from the Quito School. Constitutional Republic -Area: 176,215 km2

Bolivia Sucre -Food: Choripán, Empanada -Spanish & 36 Indigenous Languages; Santa Cruz de la Sierra & La Paz -peso -Unitary Presidential Constitutional Republic -None: 41.7% -Area: 1,098,581 km2 -Food: Salteñas, maize, potatoes, beans -Colonized rather late and won independence -boliviano in 1828… -Roman Catholic: 70% -Contains a dense network of -Much of the silver supported the Spanish colonies... river basins. -A landlocked country that consists of … -The gaucho, a skilled horseman -Has large natural gas reserves and supplies of … is popular in art and storytelling.

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