Latin America Physical Geography
This long mountain range runs along the western edge of South America.
What are the Andes Mountains?
This sea is located east of Central America and north of South America.
What is the Caribbean Sea?
This type of government is ruled by one person or a small group with limited citizen power.
What is an autocratic government?
This country in Latin America has a presidential democracy where citizens vote for the president.
What is Mexico?
This extremely dry desert is located along the western coast of South America.
What is the Atacama Desert?
This ocean is found along the west coast of Latin America.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
In this type of government, citizens vote to choose their leaders.
What is a democratic government?
This country has an autocratic government with limited political freedoms.
What is Cuba?
This is the largest rainforest in the world and is mainly located in Brazil.
What is the Amazon Rainforest?
This ocean borders the eastern coast of South America.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
In this democracy, citizens vote directly for the president.
What is a presidential democracy?
This large South American country has a democratic government with an elected president.
What is Brazil?
These mountains are found in Mexico and are part of North America.
What are the Sierra Madre Mountains?
This body of water is located between the southern United States and Mexico.
What is the Gulf of Mexico?
In this democracy, the legislature chooses the leader of the government.
What is a parliamentary democracy?
In an autocratic government, citizens usually have this level of participation.
What is limited participation?
This major river flows through northern South America and into the Atlantic Ocean.
What is the Amazon River?
This canal connects the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean through Central America.
What is the Panama Canal?
This question asks students to look at similarities and differences between two or more governments.
What is compare and contrast?
This is one key difference between democratic and autocratic governments.
What is citizen participation and choice?