Bodies of Water
Latin America’s REGION that is made up of the greater & lesser Antilles?
What is The Caribbean?
Panama is a country that is a strip of land with water on both sides. This landform is called ______.
What is an isthmus?
French speaking country of The Caribbean or Latin America
What is Haiti or French Guiana?
What do the following things have in common: fish, petroleum, water, silver, and forests.
They are all natural resources
The five themes of geography?
What are...Movement, Location, Region, Place, and Human Interaction?
Cuba
Whatg is Havana?
Approx distance of the Amazon river, longest river in the world.
What is approx. 4,000 miles long?
a dense evergreen forest of Brazil that has
abundant rainfall year-round
What is the Amazon Rain Forest?
Cinco de Mayo & Dia de los Muertos are cultural holidays to this country.
What is Mexico?
Climate region that covers the most territory in Brazil
What is tropical wet?
This South American Brisitsh territory island has been fought over by both Argentina & England.
What is The Falkland Island?
Colombia
Whatg is Bogota?
These two countries have no bodies of water as boundaries
What are Bolivia & Paraguay?
Ecuador, Colombia & Brazil have this latitude in common
What is...they are all on the equator or at the 0 latittude?
Hernan Cortes was a Spanish explorer aka ___________.
What is a Conquistador?
Argentina & Chile are part of this dry windy region.
What is Patagonia?
All of the following can be found in the Amazon except;
tapirs, monkeys, ant eaters, pythons, thousands of species of insects, tropical fruits varities, jaguars, bees
What are pythons?
Pythons are found in Asia & Australia.
Peru
What is Lima?
Border river between US & Mexico
What is The Rio Bravo aka Rio Grande
The Mato Grasso in Brazil & the one in Mexico are both these elevated flat areas.
What is a plateau?
Reggae is the music that orginated in this country.
What is Jamaica?
3 regions that make up Latin America
What are Mexico and Central America, South America, and the Caribbean
This Caribbean nation is a group of islands called an archipeligo.
What are the Bahamas
Puerto Rico
What is San Juan?
World's highest waterfall.
What are Angel Falls?
This mountain range stretches the entire length of South America.
What are The Andes Mountains?
This man made structure has given thousands to dollars to the economy of the U.S. & Central America due to its transportation & engineering marvel.
What is the Panama Canal?
According to the film "Amazonia", this primate is the most intelligent of the rain forest.
What is the capuchin monkey?
These two countries make up the island of Hispanola.
What are Haiti & Dominican Republic?
Nicaragua
What is Managua?
Where a fresh water river or stream flows into a larger body of salt water
What is an estuary?
Llanos & Pampas mostly found in Argentina & Uruguay are used for this.
What are grasslands for grazing cattle?
Cowboys of Argentina
What is a gaucho?
Tierra Caliente, Tierra Fria, and Tierra Helada are all _______.
What are climate zones?
Bolivia and Peru are two countries with this high level plateau.
What is the Altiplano?
Ecuador
What is Quito?