Vocabulary
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Geography
100
A narrow strip of land with water on both sides that connects two continents.
What is an isthmus?
100
When the price of copper goes down in Chile, the economy...
What is suffers?
100
Hot, humid, rainy weather ALL year is this type of climate.
What is tropical wet?
100
The Caribbean Islands were developed these two ways.
What is coral and underwater mountains.
100
Latin America is in this hemisphere.
What is the Western?
200
A large raised area of mostly level land.
What is a plateau?
200
Native Americans in the Andes Mountains raise this animal and use them as pack animals.
What are llamas?
200
The higher you go up a mountain the ______ it gets.
What is colder?
200
Tiny sea animals' skeletons are called this.
What is coral?
200
Mexico and Central America are also called this.
What is Middle America?
300
Another word for plains is...
What is Pampas?
300
Venezuela diversified it's economy because the price of this went down in the 1980s.
What is oil?
300
The Caribbean if often hit with this storm, which can be devastating.
What are hurricanes?
300
Lima is the capital of this country.
What is Peru?
300
The Andes Mountains run 5,500 miles along the western coast of...
What is South America?
400
The hight above sea level.
What is elevation?
400
The fishing industry suffers in the Pacific Ocean when this happens.
What is El Nino?
400
The closer you are to the Equator, the _______ it is.
What is hotter?
400
Rivers and streams that flow into one larger river are called this.
What are tributaries?
400
Most people in Mexico live here.
What is the Central Plateau?
500
Energy from rushing water.
What is hydroelectricity?
500
This is the largest river in Latin America and provides food and jobs.
What is the Amazon River?
500
Central America is good for farming these things.
What is bananas, sugar cane, coffee, and cotton
500
This is the capital of Paraguay.
What is Asuncion?
500
Caracas is the capital.
What is Venezuela?
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