Physical Features
Climate & Vegetation
History
Population
Economic Activity
100
What is the two mountain ranges that run through Mexico?
What is the Sierra Madre Occidental and the Sierra Madre Oriental.
100
Why does Latin America have such diverse climates?
What is the wide range of altitudes.
100
Who took over most of Latin America?
What is Spain and Portugal?
100
Latin America is becoming more known as urban. What does urban mean?
What is found or living in a city.
100
What is conducting trade by exchanging goods or services instead of money?
What is barter.
200
What connects Central America to South America?
What is the Isthmus of Panama.
200
What is a ecosystem?
What is a community of all the living things in an area and the environment in which they live.
200
What was one of the first acts of the newly independent countries in 1825?
What is outlawing slavery.
200
What percentage does Latin America have of the world's land area?
What is 15%.
200
What are the two most widespread economic activities in Latin America?
What is livestock raising and subsistence farming.
300
What is the three main physical features that make up South America?
What is mountains, plains, and plateaus.
300
What is the most widespread type of vegetation?
What is broadleaf evergreen forest.
300
Who conquered the Aztec and the Inca empires in the early 1500's?
What is Spain.
300
What percentage of the population lives in Latin America?
What is less than 12%.
300
What are three of the most important crops grown by subsistence farmers?
What is corn, potatoes, and beans.
400
What is the highest lake in the world that has more than 40 islands?
What is Lake Titicaca.
400
What is the largest vegetation zone in South America?
What is the Amazon rainforest.
400
What European explorer discovered the Caribbean?
What is Christopher Columbus.
400
Most Latin Americans are what religion?
What is Christian.
400
Where are silver, gold, copper, and uranium mined in Latin America?
What is the Andes Mountains.
500
How do volcanic islands form?
What is an island formed when underwater volcano builds up enough lava and ash to rise above sea level.
500
Where is the cloud forest located in Latin America?
What is Costa Rica.
500
What is the Columbian Exchange?
What is after the discovery of the Caribbean, the Europeans took back a lot of plants, animals, and diseases to Europe.
500
Some Latin Americans still follow what religions?
What is indigenous.
500
What percentage does Latin America have of the world's petroleum, or oil supply?
What is 9%.
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