Geography
Two large mountain ranges in Mexico.
What is the Sierra Madre Occidental and Oriental Mountains?
What is Vertical Zonation?
List the four most common "cash crops" in Latin America.
What is Tea, Coffee, Sugar, and Cocao?
Three important native civilizations in Latin America.
What is the Maya, Aztec, and Inca?
Wet and dry seasons due to being near this place.
What is the equator?
Mountain chain that runs along the west part of South America.
What is Andes mountains?
Name three bodies of water that touch Latin America.
What is the Atlantic Ocean, Pacific Ocean, Caribbean Sea, Amazon River (located in South America), Orinoco River (tributary of the Amazon), or Panama Canal?
Small family-owned farms with low production. DAILY DOUBLE!!!!
What is Subsistence Farming?
What is the Monarch butterfly and birds?
Regions for grasslands located in Venezuela.
What is Llanos?
Name for a group of islands, such as Jamaica, Hispaniola, Cuba, and Puerto Rico.
What is Archipelagoes?
Unlike the United States, Latin America has a large disparity between these two classes.
What is the rich and poor?
Focused on farming and were located along Chile
What is the Inca?
The meaning of the acronym NAFTA, which abolishes tariffs between the three countries.
What is the North American Free Trade Agreement?
The agricultural region in southern part of South America DAILY DOUBLE!!!!
What is pampas?
A desert located on the western coast of South America in Peru and Chile.
What is the Atacama Desert?
Two reasons for deforestation in Latin America.
What is slash and burn farming and using rainforest for timber, and ranching?
How did most of the African Americans end up in Latin America
What is Slavery?
Native group that was located where current day Mexico city is.
What is the Aztec?
The largest river in South America.
What is the Amazon?
A natural hazard of parts of Latin America that can cause volcanoes and earthquakes.
What is the Ring of Fire?
Large land holdings in Latin America that served as farms, ranches, or mines.
What is Haciendas?
Two reasons why the populations of Latin America is clustered on the coast.
What is mountain ranges, and the Amazon rainforest?
Native group that was located on the west coast of South America?
What is the Inca?