This is a place where an ocean current meets a river current?
What is an estuary?
100
This river flows about 4,000 miles into the interior of South America.
What is The Amazon River?
100
This is a continuous high layer of leaves covering the rain forest.
What is the canopy?
100
This is the type of power generated by flowing water.
What is hydroelectric power?
100
Latin America is more affected by these than its distance from the Equator.
What are Vertical Climate zones?
200
This is an area of land that is called "high plain."
What is the Altiplano?
200
This river forms part of the boarder between The United States and Mexico.
What is the Rio Grande?
200
This is the word used to describe the millions of species of flora and fauna in the Amazon Basin.
What is biodiversity?
200
Colombian mines have been producing these for thousands of years.
What are emeralds?
200
The elevation range of the tierra caliente is __________ to 2,500 feet.
What is sea level?
300
These are grasslands in Colombia and Venezuela.
What are llanos?
300
This important trade feature was constructed in Panama in the year 1914.
What is the Panama Canal?
300
The primary reasons for the tropical climate of the Amazon Basin are its location on the Equator and this.
What is the prevailing wind patterns?
300
The area surrounding Lake Maracaibo in Venezuela contains rich deposits of this natural resource, a blessing and a curse.
What is oil?
300
This is the most densely populated of all of the climate zones.
What is Tierra Templada?
400
These mountains run all along the western edge of South America.
What are the Andes?
400
This is the only river longer that the Amazon. Don't deny it!
What is the Nile?
400
The pampas of Argentina and Uruguay, consist primarily of this vegetation, which is also found in the Great Plains in north America, that is why is is good land for grazing.
What is grasses?
400
Chile is the world's largest exporter of this mineral.
What is copper?
400
The highest and coldest vertical climate zone in Middle America.
What is tierra fria?
500
This sparsely populated plateau spreads across Brazil, Bolivia and Peru.
What is the Mato Grosso Plateau?
500
This is the name of the estuary where the Paraná, Paraguay, and Uruguay Rivers empty into the Atlantic Ocean.
What is The Rio De La Plata?
500
Shifting winds and cold Peruvian ocean currents have combined to create this area.
What is the Atacama Desert?
500
The dam being built on the land of the Xingú is called this.
What is the Belo Monte Dam?
500
These three animals are well suited for grazing at the high altitudes in the tierra helada.