Vocabulary
Economics
Geography
True or False
Pruccio
100
The height of land above sea level.
What is elevation.
100
Drops is oil, coffee, or other crop prices convinced countries to do this with their economy.
What is diversify?
100
The Caribbean Islands are formed by these two ways.
What are tops of mountains and coral?
100
Latin America is located in the Western Hemisphere.
What is true.
100
I went to this college.
What is MSU
200
A strip of land that lies between Mexico and South America.
What is an isthmus
200
A country that relies only on growing sugar cane is called this.
What is a one-resource economy?
200
This is a warm ocean current that flows along the western coast of South America.
What is El Nino?
200
The Caribbean grows a lot of bananas and sugar cane.
What is true?
200
Name 2 oceans that surround Latin America.
What is Atlantic, Caribbean, Pacific
300
Flat grasslands or plains, like in Argentina.
What are pampas?
300
This region of Latin America is know for their citrus, cacao, coffee, and bananas because of the weather.
What is the Caribbean?
300
These are the three regions of Latin America.
What is Middle America (Mexico and Central America), South America, and the Caribbean?
300
Central America uses wind energy as a main natural resource.
What is false- hydroelectricity.
300
Porfirio Diaz was a dictator in this country.
What is Mexico?
400
The Amazon has hundreds of these that feed into it.
What are tributaries?
400
Name three natural resources in South America.
What is gold, copper, tin, bauxite, trees, fish, wheat, rice, iron, oil, shellfish, sugar, cotton
400
This large mountain range travels along the western region of South America.
What are the Andes Mountains?
400
The skeletons of tiny sea animals is how some Caribbean islands were formed.
What is true (coral).
400
A tropical, wet climate means this.
What is hot, humid weather all year.
500
A large raised area of level land in Mexico.
What is the Central Plateau?
500
Define economy
What is how we satisfy our needs and wants.
500
This carries about 20 percent of all the fresh water on earth.
What is the Amazon River?
500
The capital of Peru is La Paz.
What is false (Lima)
500
Southern Brazil is probably hotter than Northern Brazil because it's by this.
What is the equator?
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