Describes the characteristics of a location that make it unique, or different.
What is place?
100
Mineral mined in Jamaica.
What is bauxite?
100
Country that is mostly covered by the Pampas.
What is Argentina?
100
One of the driest places on earth.
What is the Atacama?
100
The number of tectonic plates that meet in the narrow strip of land connecting North America and South America,
resulting in frequent earthquakes and active volcanoes.
What is four (4)?
200
Explains how and why people, ideas, and goods move from place to place.
What is movement?
200
Mineral mined in Mexico?
What is silver?
200
The largest country in Latin America.
What is Brazil?
200
Changes in air pressure, temperature, and rainfall in the Pacific Ocean.
What is El Nino?
200
The tropical grasslands that stretch through eastern Columbia and Venezuela.
What is Llanos?
300
The position of a place on the Earth's surface.
What is location?
300
The reason why the Panama Canal was built.
What is to allow ships to move between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans without traveling thousands of miles around the southern tip of South America?
300
Another name for the Caribbean Islands.
What is the West Indies?
300
The Andes has four altitude zones of climate.
The one that begins at 6000 feet is called the ___.
What is tierra fria?
300
The zone of highest elevation in the Andes.
What is tierra helada?
400
Areas of the Earth's surface that have several common characteristics, such as land, natural resources, or population.
What is regions?
400
The country in the Latin America with the lowest life expectancy.
What is Haiti?
400
To produce gasohol, Brazil uses gasoline mixed with alcohol produced from this.
What is sugarcane?
400
El Nino takes place when the temperature of
the Pacific waters off Peru's coast are ___.
What is unusually warm?
400
This country is the world's largest exporter of copper.
What is Chile?
500
Describes how people affect their environment, or natural
surroundings, and how their environment affects them.
What is human-environment interaction?
500
Bolivia and Paraguay
What are two countries in South America that do not have coastlines?
500
The islands of the Caribbean Sea are divided into these 3 groups.
What are the Greater Antilles, the Lesser Antilles, and the Bahamas?
(Can you provide a key fact of each?)