Latin America
Everything south of the USA
What is Latin America?
Largest body of water
What is the Pacific Ocean?
Land higher than a hill that comes to a peak
What is a mountain?
Begins in the mountains of Colorado and forms part of the border between the US and Mexico
What is the Rio Grande?
Length of the Andes Mountains
What is 4,500 miles long?
Mexico and Central America
What is Middle America?
Covers one-fifth of the earth
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
Has water on three sides
What is a peninsula?
Highest navigable lake in the world
What is Lake Titicaca?
Where most of the people in Mexico live
What is the Central Mexican Plateau?
Largest region in Latin America
What is South America?
Enclosed by the Caribbean Islands, east of Central America, and north of South America
What is the Caribbean Sea?
Land higher than the surrounding land that is usually flat on top
What is a plateau?
Drains 1/2 of South America
What is the Amazon River?
Peninsula covered with tropical jungle
What is the Yucatan Peninsula?
Region east of Middle America
What is the Caribbean Sea?
Connects the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans
What is the Strait of Magellan?
A body of land that connects two larger pieces of land
What is an isthmus?
What is Lake Titicaca?
Grassy plains where cattle ranching takes place
What are the pampas?
Three regions of Latin America
What is Middle America (or Mexico and Central America), the Caribbean, and South America?
Separates Baja California from Mexico
What is the Sea of Cortes or the Gulf of California?
A body of water that connects two larger bodies of water
What is a channel or strait?
River that divides Paraguay east and west
What is the Paraguay River?
Driest place on earth
What is the Atacama Desert?