Landforms & Languages
Mexico
Central America & the Caribbean
South America
Climate
100
Two types of natural disasters that occur frequently in Latin America.
What is earthquakes and volcanoes?
100
Mexico is the farthest _____ of the Latin American countries.
What is north?
100
About 80 percent of Central America is hilly or mountainous, and most of it is covered with _____.
What is forests?
100
This runs through Ecuador, Colombia, and Brazil
What is the Equator?
100
Latin America's climate is influenced by ____.
What is elevation, location, wind patterns, and ocean currents?
200
The languages of most of Latin America are derived from this language.
What is Latin?
200
This is the name of Mexico's two major mountain ranges.
What is Sierra Madre?
200
This groups of islands began as coral reefs.
What is the Bahamas?
200
The ____ of Panama links North America to South America.
What is isthmus?
200
This lies between the latitudes 23°27' north and 23°27' south.
What is the Tropical Zone?
300
This ____ region is defined by a connection (language).
What is culture?
300
The Aztec names the volcano Popocatépetl which means ___.
What is smoking mountain?
300
Over thousands of years, they erupted, cooled, hardened and formed some of the Caribbean Islands.
What is volcanoes?
300
Mount Aconcagua is the highest peak in the Western Hemisphere. It is located in this country.
What is Argentina?
300
The waters in the Caribbeans Sea stays ____ most of the year.
What is warm?
400
This landform is over 4,000 miles long and it runs through Peru, Brazil, Venezuela, Ecuador, and Bolivia.
What is the Amazon River?
400
Volcanoes and earthquakes frequently plaque Mexico caused by ____.
What is the movement of five tectonic plates?
400
A tree that loses its leaves each year
What is deciduous?
400
The process of cutting and clearing away trees from a forest.
What is deforestation?
400
This happens in an El Niño year.
What is westerly trade winds die out and warm surface water, warm air and storms occur?
500
This is the mountain range that spans through this region.
What is the Andes Mountains?
500
Mexico City's population and it's location on a drained lakebed makes the _____ severe there.
What is air pollution?
500
Two of these crash against each other and cause a string of dozens of active volcanoes.
What is tectonic plates?
500
The Andes Mountains make a good home for animals like the ___.
What is llama?
500
El Niño means ___ because ____.
What is the Christ child because Christmas celebrates the birth of Jesus and this typically occurs around Christmas time.
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