Andes Countries
The longest parallel mountain range in the world stretching for 4,500 miles along the Pacific coast of South America.
What are the Andes?
The higher the ______, the cooler the temperature in the Andean Region.
What is altitude?
Andes and midlatitude countries want to use these kinds of resources...natural gas, petroleum and hydroelectric, to develop and strengthen their economies.
What is energy?
In the Andes and midlatitude countries, politics, economics, natural resources, and jobs are all examples of these...
What are factors affecting population?
A Native American group whose language, customs, and folk art are an important part of culture in Paraguay.
Who are the Guarani?
A high plain bordered by the two main branches of the Andes in Peru and Bolivia.
What is the Altiplano?
The variety of these in the Andean region and midlatitude countries of South America means that the region’s climate is extremely diverse.
What are landforms?
The Andes has one of the world’s most important of these industries, making copper, tin, silver, lead and gold an important piece of the region's economy.
What is mining?
Where the population of the Andean and midlatitude countries is densest...
What are coastal areas?
A healing custom in Bolivia that uses traditional herbs and rituals to cure sickness.
What is Kallawaya medicine?
The broad plateaus and valleys of fertile soil for growing crops and grasslands for grazing cattle that spread across the Atlantic side of South America.
What are the pampas?
This elevation, where corn, coffee and wheat are grown, is the most densely populated of the Andean countries.
What is tierra templada?
The Andes varied geography and climate support a variety of this, including many species of birds and butterflies.
What is wildlife?
The largest city in the Andes and midlatitude countries...
What is Buenos Aires?
A style of literature popular in Latin America that combines everyday events with magical or mythical elements.
What is magic realism?
One of the world’s largest wetlands produces a diverse ecosystem of plants and animals along the Paraguay River.
What is the Pantanal?
This extreme weather event occurs when cold easterly winds weaken and the Pacific Ocean grows warmer.
What is El Nino?
These important camelids serve as pack animals, and as a source of food, wool and hides.
What are llamas and alpacas?
These communities on the outskirts Lima, Peru are called pueblo jovenes.
What are shantytowns?
The important and valued relationship between a child’s parents and other adults who serve as the child’s godparents.
What is a compadre relationship?
A river that creates an estuary where it empties into the Atlantic Ocean on the border of Argentina and Uruguay.
What is the Río de la Plata?
This extreme weather event occurs when cold easterly winds stengthen and the Pacific Ocean grows cooler.
What is La Nina?
In this ancient culture, only royalty and nobles could wear robes made with alpaca fleece.
What is the Inca?
A national hero in Peru, she worked to improve education, nutrition, and job opportunities in the pueblo jóven.
Who is Maria Elena Moyana?
A traditional Andean food made up of a mixture of lamb, pork, and chicken baked in an earthen oven.
What is pachamanca?