1. Arrange students into groups. Each group needs at least ONE person who has a mobile device.
2. If their phone camera doesn't automatically detect and decode QR codes, ask students to
4. Cut them out and place them around your class / school.
1. Give each group a clipboard and a piece of paper so they can write down the decoded questions and their answers to them.
2. Explain to the students that the codes are hidden around the school. Each team will get ONE point for each question they correctly decode and copy down onto their sheet, and a further TWO points if they can then provide the correct answer and write this down underneath the question.
3. Away they go! The winner is the first team to return with the most correct answers in the time available. This could be within a lesson, or during a lunchbreak, or even over several days!
4. A detailed case study in how to set up a successful QR Scavenger Hunt using this tool can be found here.
Question | Answer |
| 1. South America's Tropical North consists of five countries and a colony. Put these 5 countries and the colony in the correct spot on your map | not applicable | 2. What two countries are twice the size of California? | Colombia and Venezuela | 3. What countries are the third and fourth largest and are the size of Colorado and Kansas, respectively? | Ecuador and Guyana | 4. What country is the size of Washington State? | Suriname | 5. What country is the size of Maine? | French Guiana | 6. What mountain range runs the length of South America with elevations that exceed 18,000 feet, are covered with snow year-round, and has about 40 peaks that are volcanoes? | Andes Mountain Range | 7. What is the world's highest active volcano located in Ecuador? | Cotopaxi | 8. In Colombia, what mountains along the Caribbean coast are the world's highest coastal range? | Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta | 9. What country is the only country in South America with coastlines on both the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea? | Colombia | 10. What is the Darien and where is it located? | A wilderness region of deep ravines, swamps, and dense rain forest along Colombia's border with Panama. | 11. What part of Venezuela contains a heavily forested region of rolling hills, low mountains, and plateaus called the Guiana Highlands? | Southern | 12. What river is 1,300 miles long and is the continent's third-longest river system with more than 400 tributaries? | Orinoco River | 13. Which waterfall is the world's highest waterfall, 20 times higher than Niagara falls) and has water that plunges more than half-mile to the base? | Angel Falls | 14. The tropical North region has coastlines on three bodies of Water. What are they? Add them to your map. | Pacific Ocean, Caribbean Sea, and Atlantic Ocean | 15. What are Colombia's two main rivers that flow north across the Andes plateaus and valleys to the Caribbean Sea that form important routes into the country's agricultural and industrial interior? | Magdalena and Cauca | 16. What river in Ecuador is the most important because it has made Guayaquil the country's largest city and a major port? | Guayas River | 17. What islands lie in the Pacific about 6000 miles west of Ecuador with 13 major islands, 6 smaller ones, and many tiny islands called islets? | Galapagos Islands | 18. Why are the Galapagos Islands home to many unusual animals such as lizards that swim and birds with wings that cannot fly? | they are isolated | 19. Who explored the Galapagos Islands and developed his theory of evolution? | Charles Darwin | 20. South America's Tropical North lies along the Equator. Despite its location, the region has a variety of climates, why? | Variations result from the differences in elevation and location, and from the influence of the ocean currents and winds. | 21. The coastal and eastern lowlands of Ecuador and Colombia have a tropical monsoon climate, what does this mean? | short, dry season and a long wet season of heavy rainfall. | 22. Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana have a tropical wet-dry climate, but their coasts are not as hot as might be expected. Why is this? | Because of the trade winds that blow from higher latitudes toward the equator. | 23. Mountain climates depend on elevation. What are the different climate zones and what do they mean? | tierra templada, temperate land, tierra fria, cold land, paramo, an even colder zone that is permanently covered with snow and ice. | 24. Oil is found across much of the Tropical North, but which country is South America's top producer of oil? | Venezuela | 25. Where are some of the world's largest known reserves? | the Llanos, at the mouth of the Orinoco River, and offshore in the Caribbean. | 26. What country is South America's largest coal producer with major deposits in its lowlands? | Colombia | 27. What important mineral is found throughout the Tropical North with the largest deposits in Colombia's mountains, eastern Ecuador, and Venezuela's Guiana Highlands? | Gold | 28. What gem is mined from Colombia to Suriname? | Diamonds | 29. Because Ecuador's agriculture is not well developed, and there the amount of farmland is limited, Ecuadorans grow only enough to feed their families. What do they grow as common crops? | corn, potatoes, beans, and cassava | 30. What does Colombia produce as their crops? | rice, wheat, sugarcane, and cattle, and cotton | 31. What is Venezuela's main cash crop? | Coffee. | 32. Why does Guyana, Suriname, and French Guyana have little farming? | Because much of the land is covered by rainforest. | 33. What is not a major economic activity in the Tropical North, and having it missing is unusual for countries that border the sea? | Fishing |
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