Countries
Relationships
Rivers, Mtns., and Deserts
5 Themes
Potpourri
100
The country located directly north of Columbia.
What is Panama?
100
Bolivia, Nicaragua, Brazil, Venezuela
What is Nicaragua? Why?
100
The desert located in Chile, Peru, and Bolivia.
What is the Atacama?
100
This type of region is based on people's perceptions of that region.
What is vernacular?
100
This term refers to different cultures developing due to isolation from others.
What is regionalism?
200
The country that is bordered by Columbia and Peru.
What is Ecuador?
200
Peru, Bolivia, Argentina, Paraguay
What is Paraguay? Why?
200
Three countries that contain the Andes Mtns.
What is Peru, Bolivia, Chile, Argentina?
200
Longitude and Latitude describe this type of location.
What is absolute?
200
This geographic feature runs through Brazil, Columbia, and Ecuador.
What is the equator?
300
One of two countries that are landlocked in South America.
What is Bolivia or Paraguay?
300
Cuba, Trinidad and Tobago, Belize, Jamaica
What is Belize? Why?
300
The river that makes a portion of the border between two countries.
What is the Rio de la Plata?
300
Two types of characteristics that describe a place.
What is human and physical.
300
One of two foreign ruled nations.
What is the Falkland Islands and French Guiana?
400
The country that is bordered by the most countries.
What is Brazil?
400
Orinico, De la Plata, Amazon, Atacama
What is Atacama? Why?
400
The grassy plains of Argentina and Uruguay are also called this.
What is the pampas?
400
Three key concepts of human/environmental interaction.
What is humans adapt, modify, and depend on the environment?
400
The creation of the Atacama desert is attributed to this.
What is the rainshadow effect?
500
The only country bordered by Haiti.
What is the Dominican Republic?
500
Nicaragua, Honduras, Costa Rica, Panama
What is the Honduras? Why?
500
This river runs through Venezuela.
What is the Orinoco?
500
Fashions and fads that are adapted by the U.S. from Europe are examples of this theme of geography/
What is movement?
500
Three cash crops of Latin America.
What are bananas, sugar, rubber, tobacco, and coffee?
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