The Continent

This worksheet is designed for students in Grades 4, 5, and 6 to build strong content vocabulary and geographic understanding through structured word bank practice focused on South America. Learners read ten informational sentences and use context clues to select the correct terms related to major landforms, regions, climates, and cultural features, strengthening reading comprehension and content-area literacy.

Learning Goals

• Geography Vocabulary (Grades 4-6): Accurately use key terms such as Andes, Amazon, equator, and Pacific Ocean in meaningful context.
• Physical Geography: Identify major landforms, regions, ecosystems, and climate influences across South America.
• Reading for Meaning: Analyze sentence clues to determine the most accurate vocabulary choice.
• Earth & Environmental Systems: Connect geographic features to ecosystems, climate patterns, and regional characteristics.

Instructional Benefits

• Teacher-Created Resource: Designed to align with upper elementary ELA, social studies, and science standards.
• Word Bank Support: Encourages independence while reinforcing accuracy and confidence.
• Flexible Use: Ideal for geography units, science integration, homework, centers, or review activities.
• Content-Rich Practice: Reinforces foundational concepts needed for deeper regional and environmental studies.

This printable worksheet helps students strengthen vocabulary application, reading comprehension, and geographic literacy through focused practice with South America’s defining features. By carefully matching terms to informational sentences, learners build a clearer understanding of regions, landforms, climate, and ecosystems. It’s a practical, no-prep resource that works well in both classroom instruction and homeschool learning, supporting meaningful engagement with Earth and environmental systems.

This worksheet is part of our South America Worksheets collection.