Regions of South America
This is a massive mountain range on the western side of South America
What is the Andes Mountains?
Very cold and dry
What is Polar?
Along the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico; lowlands with excellent harbors.
What is the Coastal Plain?
Describes the number of people in a certain area
What is population density?
learned behavior of people; people's languages and belief systems
What is Culture?
Tropics just below the equator; covers 1/3 of South America. It has the largest tropical rain forest and the Amazon River.
What is the Amazon Basin?
Cold winters;mild summers
Most people prefer to live in this type of climate.
What is temperate?
Oldest mountain range in the eastern part of the United States.
What is the Appalachian Mountains?
Describes how many babies are born in a particular place during a particular time.
What is birth rate?
The United States and __________ have similar cultures.
What is Canada?
Varied mountain ranges and elevations. This landform is found on the eastern side of South America.
What is the Brazillion Highlands?
Very cold in higher elevations.
What is Mountain?
The mountain range in the western part of the United States
What is the Rocky Mountains?
Population can be determined by a _________ which is a count of people every 10 years.
What is a census?
South America speaks these two languages
What is Spanish and Portuguese?
A small barren desert or Plateau high in the Andes Mountains; covered with small borax lakes and and lava flow mountains. It is hot here!
What is the Atacama Desert?
What is tropical?
flat lands with rolling hills;buffalo live in this area
What is the Great Plains?
A city in the US that is most densely populated
What is New York City?
Natural resources, agricultural products, and levels of income make up our _________. (Hint: money)
Book definition: how a society organizes the ownership, allocation, and use of resources
What is economy?
This place is known for its beauty, cold, and in the Southern part of South America.
What is the Patagonia?
Warm, wet, windy winters and hot, dry, calm summers
What is Mediterranean?
Horseshoe shape wrapping around the Hudson Bay; in Canada
What is the Canadian Shield?
Name three reasons why people settle in an area
What is natural resources, temperate climate, and bodies of water?
belonging to a group of people connected by language, heritage, religion, and customs.
What is ethnicity?