Vocabulary
Parallel mountain ranges.
What are cordilleras?
The longest river in the Western Hemisphere running 4000 miles long.
What is the Amazon River?
An overflowing of a large amount of water beyond its normal confines, especially over what is normally dry land.
What is a flood?
The weather conditions prevailing in an area generally or over a long period.
What is climate?
This religion is the most common in Latin America.
What is Roman Catholicism?
A narrow strip of land that connects two larger bodies of land.
What is an isthmus?
This man-made canal allows access from the Gulf of Mexico to the Pacific Ocean.
What is the Panama Canal
A tropical storm with winds that have reached a constant speed of 74 miles per hour or more.
What is a hurricane?
The Tropical Rainforest and the Tropical Savanna are in this climate zone.
What is tropical?
The main language spoken in Brazil.
What is Portuguese?
Prevention of wasteful use of a resource.
What is conservation?
This largest lake in Central America is 3,200 sq. miles.
What is Lake Nicaragua?
This natural disaster struck Haiti in 2010 resulting in massive destruction.
What is an earthquake?
The arid desert and the semi-arid steppe are found in this climate.
What is dry?
Includes samba, salsa, rumba, and merengue.
What are Latin music and dancing?
The tidal mouth of a large river, where the tide meets the stream.
What is an estuary?
This is the estuary where the river and oceans meet in Argentina and Uruguay.
What is the Rio de la Plata?
Areas of tectonic activity with volcanoes and earthquakes happen in this place.
What is the Ring of Fire
The Marine West Coast and the Mediterranean are found in this humid subtropical climate.
What is Midlatitude?
Hispaniola, Puerto Rico, Cuba, and Jamaica are islands found here.
What is the Caribbean?
The process of replanting an area with trees.
What is reforestation?
This lake is 12,500 feet high and is the highest navigable lake by ships.
What is Lake Titicaca?
A shift in this weather pattern occurs every 2-7 years and makes coastal weather wetter than normal.
What is El Nino?
This climate is found around high land.
What are the Highlands?
These major empires rose and fell in the Per-Columbian era of Latin America.
What are the Aztec and Incan Empires?