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Pbs Learning Media: South America Interactive Map InteractivePbs Learning Media: South America Interactive Map Interactive
Publisher
PBS
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Grade
9th - 10th
Subjects
Social Studies & History
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Resource Type
Interactives
Audiences
For Administrator Use
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Lexile Measures
1180L
Interactive

Pbs Learning Media: South America Interactive Map

Curated by ACT

This interactive map explores the continent and countries of South America. Through political, physical, population, and climate map layers and individual country views, learn about the boundaries that define the continent's 12 sovereign states and one overseas region, the geologic features that shape its landscape, and the ethnically and racially diverse people who inhabit its urban centers and remote villages.

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Concepts

continents, south america

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south america countries, climate of south america, map of south america

Classroom Considerations

  • Knovation Readability Score: 5 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)

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