Latin America
What is Spanish and Portuguese
This country is located in South America and has a famous soccer player named Messi.
What is Argentina
Causes Latin America to have its rugged landscape within its Mountainous regions
What is the Ring of Fire?
This biome makes up over 1/3 of all of South America
What is the Rainforest?
Where the majority of people in South America live
What is along the coasts?
This group inhabited modern day Mexico and created the idea of "chinampas" or floating plots of earth for farming
What are the Aztec?
Includes 3 distinct regions
What are Central America, South America and The Caribbean
This country is found in the Caribbean and is known for playing the game of baseball.
What is the Dominican Republic
Largest Mountain Range in Latin America
What is the Andes Mountains?
This Biome has abundant seasonal rains with small amounts of trees
What is a Savanna?
The largest city in Latin America
What is Mexico City?
This group inhabited South America and is known to have settled its people on the Andes mountains
What are the Inca?
The Caribbean is broken up into 3 separate categories
What are The Bahamas, Greater Antilles and Lesser Antilles
A country that had a dictator named Fidel Castro
What is Cuba?
Waterway that serves as the transportation hub for much of South America?
What is the Amazon River?
This biome is dry and not well suited for human settlement
What is the desert?
The most common religion in Latin America
What is Roman Catholicism?
This is the name given to the people from Europe who colonized modern day Latin America
What are Conquistadors?
Starting from the North and going as far South as possible these two countries are the borders of what we identify as Latin America.
A country in Central America that has an eagle and snake within their flag
What is Mexico?
The worlds highest elevated lake is located within South America
What is Lake Titicaca?
This biome is where the majority of agriculture takes place in Latin America
What are grasslands?
The unique living standards that many Latin American families live in
What are Extended Families?
This is a person identified as a "strong man" who took power through authority and military strength
What is a Caudillo?
What is the Western Hemisphere?
A country known for creating a waterway that connects two oceans
What is Panama?
The largest desert you will find in Latin America
This biome is has thick concentrations of trees that go through the seasons and is less known to be found in Latin America but rather North America
What is Deciduous forests?
Traditionally what Latin America is most well known for
The most common geological issue that Latin America has faced in its past and present
What is Deforestation?