Section 1
Latin America stretches from the Rio Grande River in the north to ________ in the south?
What is Cape Horn.
Where is the Atacama Desert located?
What is Chile.
What are the symbols on the Mexican flag?
What are the eagle, cactus, and snake.
What did the Incas build to plant crops on a mountainside?
What are terraces.
What was the name of Columbus's flagship on his maiden voyage to America?
What is the Santa Maria.
What other countries does Latin America share the Western Hemisphere with?
What are Canada and the U.S.
What ocean current kills the small plants that fish feed on?
What is El Nino.
What native American tribe made their paper from tree roots?
Who were the Mayans.
For the Incas, what was a chasqui?
What is a runner.
What instrument did sailors use to measure the position of the stars?
What is an astrolabe.
What mountains run the length of western South America?
What are the Andes.
Besides Latin America, name three other areas that are also affected by El Nino.
What are Australia, India, and Africa.
What breakthrough in mathematics allowed the Mayans to express numbers of any size?
What is the zero.
What Spanish conquistador was able to conquer the Aztecs in two years?
Who is Cortes.
What name is given to a narrow passage of water that connects two larger bodies of water?
What is a strait.
Where is the largest rain forest in the world?
What is the Amazon Basin.
What is the chief influence on climate in much of Latin America?
What is elevation.
What name did the Aztecs give to their light-skinned, bearded god?
Who is Quetzalcoatl.
What animal did the Spanish bring that terrified the Aztecs?
What are horses.
What are lines on a map called that measure distances north and south of the equator?
What are lines of latitude (parallels).
How many tributaries does the Amazon River have?
What is 1,100.
What is the Latin term for "hot land?"
What is Tierra Caliente.
What native American tribe constructed the city of Cuzco high in the Andes Mountains?
Who are the Incas.
What is the language of the Incas called?
What is Quechua.
Name for a region governed by a foreign power?
What is a colony.