Countries
What is the largest country in Latin America?
Brazil
What ocean is the largest and deepest ocean on earth?
The Pacific Ocean
What places have the highest population density in Cuba, Brazil, Mexico.
cities/urban areas
What is deforestation?
the action of clearing a wide area of trees
What country runs long, and thin down the west side of South America?
Chile
What is the driest place on earth?
The Atacama Desert
Who is the world's largest producer of coffee?
Brazil
Air pollution in Mexico City causes what wet environmental concern?
Acid Rain
Which of the following is the only communist country in the western hemisphere?
Cuba
What is the name of the mountain range located on the west coast of Mexico?
The Sierra Madre Mountains
What is Cuba's most important natural resource?
Sugarcane
Why does polluted air in Mexico City get trapped above the city?
Mexico City is located in a valley between two mountain ranges.
What country is known for its involvement in the illegal drug trade?
Colombia
What are the two physical features located in Brazil?
The Amazon River and the Amazon Rainforest
The climates of Brazil and Cuba can be described as what?
Tropical
What gas is converted into oxygen by the trees in the Amazon Rainforest?
Carbon dioxide
Which of the following Latin American countries is 1/3 of the North American Free Trade Agreement?
Mexico
What physical feature runs creates a “shortcut” from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean?
Panama Canal
Where does Mexico drill for its oil?
The Gulf of Mexico
Name two consequences of deforestation in the Amazon Rainforest.
- Increased levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere (less breathable air/climate change)
- displacement/extinction of species