Vocabulary
Waterways
Natural Resources
Climates
The Past
100
A narrow piece of land that links two larger areas of land.
What is an Isthmus.
100
Latin America's longest river.
What is the Amazon River.
100
Timber, rubber, palm oil and brazil nuts.
What is products of the rain forest.
100
Area that is generally warm because it receives direct rays from the sun.
What is the Tropics.
100
Name the Planets in our Solar System.
What is Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.
200
A group of Islands.
What is an Archipelago.
200
A small river that flows into a larger river.
What is a Tributary.
200
Mixing sugarcane and gasoline to make fuel for cars.
What is gasohol.
200
From June to November this strikes the Caribbean Islands with rain and wind.
What is a Hurricane.
200
Evaporation> Condensation> Precipitation> Evaporation> Condensation> Precipitation
What is the Water Cycle.
300
A dense stand of trees and other plants that receive high amounts of precipitation.
What is a Rain Forest.
300
The world's highest lake where big ships can travel.
What is Lake Titicaca.
300
Country with Latin America's largest oil and natural gas reserves.
What is Venezuela.
300
One of the driest places on Earth.
What is Atacama Desert.
300
Water and ice, chemicals and even plants break rocks apart into smaller pieces.
What is Weathering.
400
A place's height above sea level.
What is Altitude.
400
The highest waterfall.
What is Angel Falls.
400
Columbian mines produce the world's finest What.
What is Emeralds.
400
In a Temperate climate the winters and summers are like.
What is Winters are short and mild, Summers are long, hot and humid.
400
People are free to buy, sell, and produce whatever they want with limited government involvement.
What is A Free Market.
500
A area where river currents and ocean tides meet.
What is an Estuary.
500
A human made waterway, makes it shorter to get from the Atlantic ocean to the Pacific Ocean.
What is The Panama Canal.
500
Why is Jamaica an exception with large deposits of bauxite.
Because Caribbean Islands usually have few resources.
500
The lowest altitude area known as "hot land" and the highest altitude area known as "frozen land".
What is Tierra Caliente and Tierra Helada.
500
Were voters choose leaders who make and enforce the laws.
What is a Representative Democracy.
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