What two oceans does the Panama Canal connect?
Atlantic and Pacific
What country in Europe controlled most of Central America in the 1700s?
Spain
What is the climate like in the Andes Mountains?
cold and dry
What two languages are the most spoken in South America?
Spanish and Portuguese
What is a chain of islands called?
archipelago
What is the flat grassland located in Argentina called?
Pampas
What is the driest desert on Earth?
Atacama
What landform stretches the entire width of South America?
Amazon River
What is the climate like in the Amazon Basin?
In what type of government is a king or queen in control?
monarchy
What is a narrow strip of land that connects two larger pieces of land?
isthmus
90% of all Canadians live within 100 miles of what?
U.S. border
What region of Canada has the harshest climate?
What event occurred during the 1930s in the Great Plains?
Dust Bowl
Name the 5 themes of Geography.
Movement, Region, Human-Environment Interaction, Location, Place