Physical Features
This is the extensive mountain range found in areas of Peru, Ecuador, Chile, Bolivia and Argentina.
What are the Andes Mountains?
This South American country was colonized by Portugal.
What is Brazil?
Many areas of Latin America depend on industries such as timber, mining and farming, as part of their _______ economic sector.
What is primary?
This serves as the government of Mexico, as well as Central America.
What is a federal republic?
This is the narrow strip of land in which the Panama Canal was built.
What is the isthmus of Panama?
This biome is found all over the world, but predominantly in the mid-latitudes, where there is low humidity and limited precipitation.
What is a desert?
This exchange between the Americas (New World) and Europe/African provided both positive and negative aspects.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
All of the Latin American countries are considered developing except one, _________.
What is Chile?
These areas are still referred to as being under colonial control.
What are the French Islands?
This US president established the Panama Canal.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
This warming of the Pacific Ocean creates significant rainfall in Central America on the Caribbean coast, with areas of dryness on the Pacific coast.
What is El Nino?
This country was the most influential in colonizing Central and South America.
What is Spain?
This provides a major economic impact, in that it allows farming to be modified in a way to be successful in areas that normally could not be farmed.
What is terrace farming?
This area has a long history of revolution and rebellion, linked in the past to Mexico and Spain.
What is Central America?
This crop became a significant cash crop for the Americas, specifically the Caribbean region.
What is sugarcane?
This climate zone is found in southern areas of Argentina and Chile where climate can be quite cold and harsh in the winter season.
What is the temperate zone?
These were considered the negative effects of the Columbian Exchange in terms of colonization.
What are disease and enslavement?
This is farming for the purpose of supporting oneself, or one's family.
What is subsistence farming?
This country's government system is based on a one party system, called socialist democracy, derived from communism.
What is Cuba?
This mosquito born illness wreaked havoc on the workers of the Panama Canal, often leading to death (at least initially).
What is malaria?
This is a challenge for the Amazonia region due to the many environmental impacts, such as loss of land and habitat.
What is deforestation?
This is a group of Native Americans that were located in central Mexico, whose capital was Tenochtitlan, and were known for their architecture especially their canals and bridges.
What are the Aztec?
This industry supports many in the Caribbean and coastal regions of Mexico.
What is tourism?
This is a government system where the executive branch operates separately from the legislative branch resulting in lack of accountability.
What is a presidential republic?
This is an economic effect in Latin America due to the opening of the Panama Canal.
What is a decrease in shipping costs?