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What is the longest mountain range in the world?
What is the primary religion in Latin America?
Roman Catholic
What river is located in Paraguay?
Paraguay
What is a Latin American music genre?
Andean
Caribbean
Salsa
Merengue
Etc.
What is a Latin American food dish?
Etc.
What are the 3 big rivers in Latin America?
Amazon, Orinoco, Paraguay
What are the 3 most common languages spoken in Latin America?
English, Spanish, Portuguese
What has significant importance in the Latin American culture?
Family
What river is the largest watershed in the world?
Amazon River
What country does the Orinoco river mostly run through?
What country in latin America is the largest?
Brazil
What food, originally grown in Latin America, is eaten EVERYWHERE today and saved lots of people from starvation?
Potatoes
Where is South America located in relation to the united states?
Directly East
What holiday is widely celebrated in Mexico?
Day of the Dead. Dia de Los Muertos
What is deforestation?
The purposeful clearing of forested land
What is a Megacity?
Has a population of more than 100 million
True/False
Latin America has some of the most urbanized populations on earth
True
What percentage of people from Latin America live and work in the United States
20%
What is the most urbanized country in Latin America?
Uruguay
What countries are apart of BRIC?
Brazil, Russia, India, China
What are three main groups of people in Latin America?
Iberians, Latin Americans, Africans
What are 5 Latin American Countries?
Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Panama, Nicargua, Belize, Cuba, Haiti, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Honduras, Colombia, Ecudar, Peru, Chile, Argentina, Bolivia, Venezuela, Guyana, Brazil, French Guiana, Paraguay, Uruguay
True or False;
The 4 major biomes are the tropical rainforest, arid, Mediterranean, and mountains?
False
What is evapotranspiration?
Water lost through plant soil.
True or False;
The 4 major biomes are the tropical rainforest, arid, Mediterranean, and tundra?
True