The Land
Water Systems
Climate and Vegetation
A Vast Region
Key Termie Terms
100
Spread across Colombia and Venezuela
What are the llanos?
100
highest navigable lake
What is Lake Titicaca?
100
Location of Earth's largest rain forest
What is the Amazon Basin?
100
Connects North America to South America
What is the Isthmus of Panama?
100
parallel chains of mountains
What are cordilleras?
200
Spread across Argentina and Uruguay.
What is the pampas?
200
This ocean is to the east of South America
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
200
continuous layer of leaves at the top of the rain forest
What is the canopy?
200
These are the three vertical climate zones.
What is the tierra caliente, tierra templada, and tierra fria?
200
high plain
What is altiplano?
300
The three regions of Latin America.
What is Middle America, Caribbean, and South America?
300
Longest river in Western Hemisphere
What is the Amazon River?
300
determined by elevation
What are vertical climate zones?
300
Tropical hardwoods, palms, ferns, and ____________ are the natural vegetation of rain forests.
What is bamboo?
300
electricity generated from the power of water
What is hydroelectric power?
400
Found on the western edge of Mexico.
What is the Sierra Madre Occidental?
400
Forms part of the border between Mexico and the US.
What is the Rio Grande?
400
An effect of the Andes that has produced the Atacama Desert
What is the rain shadow effect?
400
work on the pampas
What are gauchos?
400
Lies between 2500 to 6500 feet above sea level. temperate land.
What is tierra templada?
500
Mexico and Central America
What is Middle America?
500
Estuary formed by the Parana, Paraguay, and Uruguay rivers.
What is the Rio de la Plata?
500
Apples, wheat, and potatoes are grown here.
What is the tierra fria?
500
Cowboys on the pampas.
What are gauchos?
500
area where the tide meets a river current
What is an estuary?
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