Physical Geography
The mountain range that runs the length of South America.
What are the Andes?
This is how trade was affected after the opening of the Panama Canal.
What is trading ships now have a short cut through the Panama Canal?
The main language of Latin America.
What is Spanish?
Day of the Dead is a blending of these two traditions.
What are Aztec and Catholic religious traditions?
Vegetation found in the pampas of South America.
What are grasslands?
This is causing the rainforests to shrink in Latin America.
What is deforestation?
Two sectors that Latin American economies rely on.
What are agriculture and factories?
The reason African cultures exist in Latin America.
What is African slaves were brought to work on sugar plantations in the Caribbean?
The blending of Native American and European languages in Latin America are called this.
What is Creole?
A negative impact of slash and burn farming in the Amazon Rainforest.
What is deforestation?
The type of vegetation found in the Amazon River Basin.
What is tropical rainforest?
A major pull factor for the rapid population growth in Mexico City?
What are job opportunities?
The main religion of Latin America.
What is Roman Catholicism?
The ancient Aztec capital city and the modern day site of Mexico City.
A warming of the waters in the Pacific Ocean is caused by this.
What is El Nino?
This geographic process is responsible for the Atacama Desert in Peru.
What is the rain shadow effect?
This is the reason why some American manufacturing companies located their factories in Mexico.
What is a supply of cheap labor?
Blended cultures in Latin America were created from these three groups.
What are Europeans, Africans and Native peoples?
A cultural impact of Portugal colonizing Brazil.
What is the official language is Portuguese?
This is how the Inca modified the physical geography of their region in order to grow more crops.
What is terrace farming?
This is how El Nino affects the weather in Central America and Peru.
What is increases the rainfall?
Spanish Explorers wanted to colonize Latin America in the 1500s mainly for this reason.
What is to capture Aztec and Inca gold and silver?
A characteristic art found in Mexico that express their cultural heritage.
What are wall murals?
A trade agreement between the US, Canada and Mexico.
What is NAFTA?
Items never seen before in the New World or the Old World resulted in this after Columbus discovered America.
What is the Columbian Exchange?