A Canal in Panama that connects the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Built by the US in 1900's until 1999. It brought jobs, urbanization, transportation, and economic activities to Central South America.
What is the Panama Canal?
100
1. Mexico 2.Central America 3.The Caribbean 4.South America
What are the four physical geographic regions in Latin America?
100
Language, religion, customs, institutions, family structure, etc.
What are the elements of culture?
100
Located five degrees north and south of the equator
What are the Doldrums?
100
Formed from the Nazca and South American plate converging together
How is the Andes Mountains formed?
200
Livestock raising and substance farming
What are the most spread out of economic activities in Latin America?
200
an area where per-Columbian societies flourished
What is Mesoamerica
200
The Europeans
Who was the first to colonize Latin America?
200
Natural disasters that occurs in the Caribean from May to November
What are Tropical storms and Hurricanes?
200
The Andes Mountains is to the west
What land form covers the western coast of South America.
300
Mexico is known for manufacturing this.
What is Oil
300
Area that share a common human of physical characteristic
What is the definition of a formal region?
300
This has caused a high influence of African culture in Brazil
What is the Columbian exchange
300
Due to Latitude and Altitude
Why is Latin America's climate so varied?
300
A place in Latin America where one can find more pants than anywhere else in the world.
What is The Amazon Rainforest
400
They latter mined copper, uranium, and other minerals.
What did the Europeans mine latter on other than what the came for?
400
Groups of islands
What is a archipelagos?
400
The two main languages in Latin America.
What are Spanish and portuguese
400
The Atacama Desert a hot and dry sort of climate that goes to the extreme of being to dry for plant life.
What type of climate is The Atacama Desert?
400
Silver and Gold can mostly be found in these mountains.
What is the Andes Mountains?
500
Dams on river in Brazil and Paraguay produce large amounts of hydroelectric power.
What is type of power come in a large quantity from Brazil and Paraguay?
500
Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola (composed of Haiti and the Dominican Republic) and Puerto Rico
What is The Greater Antilles?
500
The first civilization to practice terraced farming
Who were the inca
500
Two factors that cause Latin America to have so many different climates.
What are subtropical high pressure air masses and Cold ocean currents.
500
Another name of the Intertropical Convergence Zone