<p>Andes: the Dragon’s Back True or False? </p><p>______1. Around Cape Horn is the world’s roughest sea. </p><p>______2. Magellanic Penguins choose a different mate every year. </p><p>______3. The Kodkod is the largest cat in the Americas. </p><p>______4. The Pudu is the world’s smallest deer. </p><p>______5. Southern Chile gets about 5 feet of rain per year. </p><p>______6. The Magellanic Penguin is also known as the “Jackass Penguin.” </p><p>______7. Artic winds have carved the Andes into “spines.” </p><p>______8. The Guanaco is the “New World Giraffe.”</p><p>______9. Pumas are found from Canada to Chile. </p><p>_____ 10. Condors have a maximum wing span of 6 feet. </p><p>_____ 11. The Spanish word “zorro” means “fox.”</p><p>_____ 12. Zorros usually stay in one den for life. </p><p>_____ 13. The Andes are older than the Himalaya Mountains. </p><p>_____ 14. There are relatively few fish along the Chilean coast. </p><p>_____ 15. The Atacama Desert is the driest desert in the world. </p><p>_____ 16. The feet of the Guanaco are well-adapted to snow but not to sand. </p><p>_____ 17. Penguins stay far away from the Atacama Desert. </p><p>_____ 18. Sea lions will hunt penguins in the water but not on land. </p><p>_____ 19. Sea fog brings some water to the Atacama. _____ 20. From the air can be seen giant figures of animals carved in the desert. </p><p>_____ 21. Salt is rarely found in the Andes Mountains. </p><p>_____ 22. Andean flamingos, once plentiful, are now almost extinct. </p><p>_____ 23. It’s a legend and untrue that Flamingos sometimes “dance.” </p><p>_____ 24. Temperatures in the Altiplano can range from 50° by day to –30° by night. </p><p>_____ 25. Geysers are a source of warmth in the Altiplano. </p><p>_____ 26. Viscachas look like rabbits but are really more like giant mice. </p><p>_____ 27. The wool of the Vicuña is unsuitable for human use. </p><p>_____ 28. About 2,000 volcanoes can be found in the northern Andes. </p><p>_____ 29. The Andes block clouds and moisture from the Atlantic Ocean. </p><p>_____ 30. The Spectacle Bear can climb into tree tops. </p><p>_____ 31. The Grey Tree Fox lives mainly on birds’ eggs. </p><p>_____ 32. The Amazon River holds a tenth of all the world’s river water. </p><p>_____ 33. In the Andes, waterfalls can be a good place to fish. </p><p>_____ 34. Machu Picchu was built by the Incas. </p><p>_____ 35. Potatoes, though known to the Incas, were not an important crop for them. </p><p>_____ 36. Two hundred Spanish conquistadors defeated 15 million Incas. Answer Key </p><p>1. T 2. F 3. F 4. T 5. F 6. T 7. F 8. F 9. T 10. F 11. T 12. F 13. F 14. F 15. T 16. F 17. F 18. T 19. T 20. T 21. F 22. F 23. F 24. F 25. T 26. T 27. F 28. T 29. T 30. T 31. T 32. F 33. T 34. T 35. F 36. T </p>