Culture
Natural Resources
Environmental Problems
Physical Features
Latin American Countries
100
What is the main religion in Latin America?
Catholicism
100

What natural resource would Cuba have alot of based on its location?

Fish

100
What is the environmental problem in Latin America?
Deforestation
100
What river runs mostly through Brazil?
Amazon River
100
What is the largest and most populated country in Latin America?
Brazil
200
What are the two main languages spoken in Latin America?
Spanish and Portuguese
200

What is Brazil's most important export be based on your reading?

Timber

200
What causes the air pollution in Mexico City (human causes)?
Emissions from cars and factories
200
What mountain range runs throughout Mexico, creating the Mexican Plateau?
Sierra Madre Mountains
200
Which country (that we have studied) is landlocked?
Bolivia
300
What can a literate person do?
Read and write
300
Why is the Panama Canal important?
Improves trade/makes shipping easier and quicker
300
Give two reasons that the forest is being cut down in Brazil.
Logging, Farms, Cattle Ranching, Mining
300
What body of water are Haiti and Cuba in?
Caribbean Sea
300
What is poorest country in Latin America?
Haiti
400

What is the largest speaking Spanish county in Latin America?

Mexico

400

What does Brazil's Natural Resource produce that human need ?

Trees/20% of the earth's oxygen

400

Which country has a problem with air pollution?

Mexico

400
What mountain range runs down the west coast of South America?
Andes Mountains
400
Which country is border by Colombia, Brazil, the Caribbean Sea, and the Atlantic Ocean?
Venezuela
500

What are do most people live in Brazil?

Along the coast

500
___________ means that land is good for growing crops.
Arable
500
What geographical reason causes or worsens the air pollution in Mexico City?
The city lies in a crater shaped valley (city is surrounded by mountains)
500
Panama is an ____________, because it is a narrow strip of land that divides the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean.
Isthmus
500
What country is considered an Isthmus?
Panama
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