Latin America Geography
Latin America History
Latin America Random
Latin America Environment
Latin America Terms
100
This country has issues with deforestation of the rain forest.
What is Brazil?
100
This colonizing country introduced the Spanish language and Catholicism to Latin America
What is Spain?
100
This is the dominant religion in Latin America
What is Catholicism/Christianity?
100
Trees are important because of what they release into the air
What is oxygen?
100
The largest river by discharge volume of water in the world, and the disputed longest river in the world.
What is the Amazon River?
200
Most people in South America live where?
What is the Coast?
200
This was the largest empire ever in the Americas, they were established in the Andes Mountains.
Who are the Inca?
200
The Aztec Empire prospered in this present day country
What is Mexico?
200
This natural disaster is very common in the Caribbean
What are hurricanes?
200
These Three G's were the most common reasons European explorers came to Latin America
What is God, Glory, and Gold.
300
The largest Caribbean Island, most people in this country live in urban areas because the government owns the farms.
What is Cuba?
300
This country (remind the Banana Wars) interfered in the history of Central America for many years
What is the US?
300
They created a huge civilization throughout the Andes Mts
Who are the Inca?
300
The Amazon Rainforest is facing this problem due to logging, cattle ranching, farming, etc.
What is deforestation?
300
What are the three regions of Latin America?
South America, Central America/Mexico, Caribbean
400
This mountain range is the largest in Latin America.
What is the Andes Mountains?
400
This region of Latin America contains Costa Rica, Belize, and Panama.
What is Central America?
400
These TWO European countries colonized Latin America
What are Spain and Portugal?
400
Latin America makes a lot of money from this, another word for people visiting the area
What is tourism?
400
This word describes the huge number of plant and animal species in Latin America
What is biodiversity?
500
These are the TWO geographic features that make up most of South America.
Amazon Basin/Rainforest and Andes Mountains
500
These were the three major ancient civilizations that shaped Latin America.
Who are the Inca, Maya, Aztec?
500
This term is a narrow strip of land that separates two bodies of water.
What is an Isthmus?
500
These are two of the key resources in Latin America?
What is Oil, Coffee, Copper, Timber
500
This desert is one of the driest places on Earth
What is the Atacama Desert?