Latin America Random
Mexico, Central America,the Caribbean and South America
What is Latin America?
Puerto Rico, Jamaica, Cuba, and Hispaniola
What is the Caribbean?
Ocean to the west of Central America
What is the Pacific Ocean?
Benefits of the Amazon River (3)
What is transportation, food, and hydroelectricity
Capital city of Mexico
What is Mexico City?
Practice of cutting flat areas out of hilly or mountainous landscape in order to grow crops
What is terrace farming?
Skeletons of tiny sea animals that comprise smaller islands in the Caribbean
What is coral?
Arm of the Atlantic Ocean that lies along the coast of Mexico, Texas, and Florida
What is the Gulf of Mexico?
The driest place on Earth
What is the Atacama Desert?
Factory in Mexico that is run by a foreign company and exporting its products to the country of that company
What is a Maquiladora?
Factors that drive people away from a place and draw people to a new location
What are Push/Pull factors?
Arm of the Atlantic Ocean between central america and the Caribbean
What is the Caribbean Sea?
Man-made waterway that allows ships to travel from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean
What is the Panama Canal?
The longest continuous mountain range in the world
What are the Andes Mountains?
Resources found in Mexico
What is silver, zinc, iron, and oil?
Method of agriculture in which existing vegetation is cut down and burned off before new seeds are sown
What is Slash and Burn?
Haiti and the Dominican Republic
What is Hispaniola?
DAILY DOUBLE
Is Central America apart of North America or South America?
Makes it hard to live in the Andes
What is steep and rugged terrain?
Country that conquered Mexico resulting in Mexico speaking Spanish
What is Spain?
NAFTA
What is the North American Free Trade Agreement?
Climate of the Caribbean
What is mild and tropical?
Mountain range in Central America
What are the Sierra Madre Mountains?
Vast grasslands
What are pampas?
Overcrowding
What is a reason for air pollution in Mexico City?