South America
Brazil generates 74% of its power from this.
What is hydropower?
The West Indies.
What are the Caribbean Islands?
What is North of South America, East of the Pacific Ocean, South of the United States, and West of the Atlantic Ocean?
60% of the Amazon is in this country.
What is Brazil?
Latin America is.
What is Central America, The Caribbean, and South America?
An unbroken range with a distance of over 5,500 miles that includes a series of plateaus that have been settle by different peoples.
What are they Andes Mountains?
Season stretches from June 1 to November 30th.
What is hurricane season in the Caribbean?
A mountain system of Mexico.
What are the Sierra Madres?
Largest river by volume in the world.
What is the Amazon River?
An area of land that extends into water on three sides.
What is a peninsula?
Large deep, freshwater lake in the Andes on the border of Bolivia and Peru.
What is Lake Titicaca?
The Cayman Islands, Cuba, Haiti, Dominican Republic, Jamaica and Puerto Rico.
What are the Greater Antilles?
This is occupies most of northern and central Mexico and is home to most of Mexico's population.
What is the Mexican Plateau?
The river waters in the Igapo and Varzea can be divided into three types.
What is black, clear and white water?
Large desert of Northwest Mexico, also the hottest desert in Mexico.
What is the Sonora Desert?
Translates to "high plain', is the second largest mountain plateau in the world.
What is the Altiplano?
Smaller islands in the archipelago that form the eastern boundary of the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean.
What are the Lesser Antilles?
Largest freshwater lake in Central America.
What is Lake Nicaragua?
The largest portion in the rainforest is this type of forest.
What is the Terra firme?
A narrow strip of land with sea on either side, forming a link between two larger areas of land.
What is an isthmus?
What are the Pampas?
Tropical with an average temperature that is in the 80's.
What is the climate of the Caribbean?
Tropical rainforest dominates the southern area of Central America and it is hot and dry with occasional droughts in Mexico.
What is Central America's Climate?
Three main types of rain forest.
What are the Igapo, Varzea, and Terre Firme Forests?
People, plants and animals have adapted to living in the many elevations that Central Mexico has.
What is Vertical Zonation?