Vocabulary
treeless plains
What are pampas?
The driest place in South America.
What is the Atacama Desert?
Today, 59% of Central America's population lives here.
What are cities?
This instrument is unique to the culture of the people of the Caribbean.
What is a steel drum?
He was the greatest Latin American Revolutionary leader.
Who is/was Simon Bolivar?
a smaller river that flows into a larger river
What is a tributary?
This river is the heart of the rainforest in Brazil.
What is the Amazon River?
Some people of Central America live in rural areas in order to do this.
What is farming?
These two styles of music are famous in the Caribbean.
What are salsa and reggae?
The highest waterfall in South America.
What is Angel Falls?
Slums or where poor people live
What are favelas?
This is the largest country in South America.
What is Brazil?
Central America is an isthmus between these two continents.
What are North America and South America?
Hispaniola is home to these two countries.
This is Brazil's capital.
What is Brasilia?
These are nomadic cowboys of South America.
What are gauchos?
This person declared Brazil independent in 1822.
Who is Dom Pedro or
Pedro or
Emperor Pedro?
He was the first person to set up a colony in Central America.
Who was Christopher Columbus?
These storms are more prone to happen in the Caribbean.
What are hurricanes?
These are the two types of islands that are found the Caribbean.
What are cay islands and volcanic islands?
These are poor farmers of South America.
What are campesinos?
This person helped Chile and Peru gain their independence.
Who is Jose De San Martin?
This is the most important waterway in Central America.
What is the Panama Canal?
The Caribbean Islands are divided into these three island groups.
What are the Greater Antilles, Lesser Antilles, and the Bahamas?
These four regions make up Latin America.
What are Mexico, Central America, Caribbean, and South America?