Mexico & Early America
This city is the largest urban center in Latin America north of the equator.
What is Mexico City?
These two countries are where the Maya primarily live today.
What are Mexico and Guatemala?
What is "lungs of the Earth"?
This physical feature runs through the countries of Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, and Argentina.
What is the Andes Mountains?
Hurricanes, tornadoes, and blizzards are all examples of this.
What is extreme weather?
This group in Mexico City enjoys the highest standard of living.
What is the upper class?
The Maya civilization was united by...
What is a shared culture and belief system?
Groups that want sustainable development in the Amazon rainforest are most likely to support this.
What is the use of rainforest resources without destroying them?
In this place you can find large areas of temperate grassland vegetation.
What is Pampas?
The scientific study of climate and weather.
What is meteorology?
This is the main reason Mexico City's growth has slowed in recent years.
What is a decline in migration from rural areas?
The Maya farmers have adapted to modern life by...
What is working for wages on commercial farms?
This is the amount of the world's rainforests that have been lost.
What is more than half?
A farming method that makes it possible to raise crops on steep hillsides.
What is terracing?
What is a Tropical Cyclone?
This continent is where many people moved to the Americas from during Early American Migration.
What is Asia?
This is how the Maya markets have adapted to the modern world.
What is money has replaced barter?
People in climates that prevented the development of agricultural settlements survived by doing this.
What is migrated to find food?
The trading of goods between the lowland and the highland areas.
What is vertical trade?
The aspect of a hurricane that creates the most damage once the storm reaches land.
What is a storm surge?
European views of Indigenous cultures have affected modern understanding of Indigenous cultures because European records...
What is reflected prejudice toward Indigenous cultures?
In the Mayan highlands, you would most likely find a cloud forest in this elevation.
What is 6,000 to over 9,000 feet?
Quito, the capital of Ecuador, is located at 9,250 feet above sea level in this elevation zone.
What is Tierra Fria?
One of the main reasons families migrate to large cities.
What is economic opportunity?
People adapt to living in this geographical region by wearing light clothes and living in bamboo or thatch houses.
What is Tierra Caliente?