Vocab
What is the snow line?
The main physical feature of South America that runs through many countries.
What are the Andes Mountains?
The most abundant resource in Latin America, north of the Equator.
What is Petroleum (Oil)
Hurricanes, tornadoes and blizzards are examples of this.
What is extreme weather?
The Incans created this city.
What is Machu Picchu
The highest elevation where these grow on the map.
What is the tree line?
The main vegetation zone of the Amazon Basin
What is broadleaf evergreen forest?
The most typical use of land in Mexico.
What is livestock raising?
The scientific study of climate and weather.
What is meteorology?
The Latin American country with the most desert scrub vegetation.
This type of trading happens between lowland and highland areas.
What is vertical trading?
The Andes Mountains are on which coast of South America?
What is the west coast?
The Andes Mountains are most known for having this resource.
What is precious metals?
Wind currents that move in a curving pattern
What is the Coriolis effect?
The tree line is found in this elevation zone.
What is the Tierra fria?
A farming method that makes it possible to raise crops on steep hills.
What is terracing?
This is the largest body of water in South America
What is the Amazon River?
Four Latin American countries where most precious metals are found.
Mexico, Peru, Bolivia, Chile
This is how hurricanes are formed.
What is when warm and moist air combine?
People adapted to life in the Tierra Caliente this way.
What is wearing light clothes & lived in bamboo(thatch) houses?
Land divided into zones based on elevation.
The southernmost point in South America.
What is Cape Horn?
What is the Tierra templada?
The progression of a hurricane.
What is tropical thunderstorm, tropical disturbance, tropical depression, tropical storm, and tropical cyclone?
The four elevation zones of the Andes Mountains. (Highest to lowest)
What is the Tierra helada, Tierra fria, tierra templada, & tierra caliente