Amazon & Iguazú
This rainforest stretches across nine South American countries and covers about six million square kilometers.
What is the Amazon Rainforest?
This modern capital city was built over the former Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan.
What is Mexico City?
This Chilean desert is considered the most arid desert on Earth.
What is the Atacama Desert?
This mountain range is the longest in the world, stretching over 7,000 kilometers.
What are the Andes?
Latin America includes countries in the Americas that were colonized by these three European nations.
What are Spain, Portugal, and France?
This river flows more than 6,000 kilometers from the Andes to the Atlantic Ocean.
What is the Amazon River?
Mexico City was built over this type of geographic feature that once held Tenochtitlan.
What is a lake (a dried lakebed)?
Located about 600 kilometers off the coast of Ecuador, this volcanic archipelago helped inspire Darwin’s ideas about evolution.
What are the Galápagos Islands?
The Andes stretch across this many South American countries.
What is seven countries?
These three major pre-Columbian civilizations are mentioned as foundational to Latin American culture.
Who are the Maya, Aztecs, and Incas?
These large predators hunt in the Amazon Rainforest and are among its top carnivores.
What are jaguars?
The city sinks about 40 centimeters per year mainly because of this human activity.
What is pumping water from underground aquifers?
In Patagonia, glaciers from this mountain range descend to the sea, forming fjords and icebergs.
What are the Andes (Andes Cordillera)?
The Andes act as these natural features, separating and isolating very different ecosystems.
What are climatic barriers?
Latin American societies were formed through the fusion of Indigenous peoples, European conquistadors, and this third group brought during the slave trade.
Who are African populations?
Located on the border of Argentina and Brazil, this waterfall system includes more than 200 individual falls.
What are Iguazú Falls?
This massive public square in Mexico City is one of the largest in the world.
What is the Zócalo?
This Argentine soccer player won the 2022 FIFA World Cup.
Who is Lionel Messi?
Indigenous peoples in the Andes grow thousands of varieties of this crop on agricultural terraces.
What are potatoes?
Today, Latin America has over this many inhabitants spread across 33 independent countries.
What is over 650 million people?
This dramatic section of Iguazú Falls, known as the most scenic point, swallows 1,800 cubic meters of water per second.
What is the Devil’s Throat?
This neighborhood preserves ancient Aztec canals, where colorful boats travel through artificial islands.
What is Xochimilco?
In the Galápagos Islands, Darwin observed how species changed over time, leading to this scientific theory.
What is the theory of evolution (by natural selection)?
Rivers born in the Andes feed into these two oceans.
What are the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean?
Latin America is described as a continent suspended between these two oceans.
What are the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean?