Physical Features
This high plain lies between Mexico’s two major mountain ranges.
What is the Mexican Plateau?
This climate zone is found year-round in low latitudes.
What is tropical climate?
These plants survive with little water in Mexico’s deserts.
What are cactus and desert scrub?
This country is the largest in Latin America by both area and population.
What is Brazil?
These two crops were essential to early Latin American civilizations.
What are maize and potatoes?
These two mountain ranges run along Mexico’s east and west coasts.
What are the Sierra Madre Occidental and Sierra Madre Oriental?
This region in Mexico has a semiarid climate.
What is the Mexican Plateau?
This type of forest is the most widespread vegetation in Latin America.
What is broadleaf evergreen forest?
These two languages are most commonly spoken in Latin America.
What are Spanish and Portuguese?
This region in Argentina is known for cattle ranching.
What is the Pampas?
This narrow landform connects Central and South America.
What is the Isthmus of Panama?
This tropical coastal zone in Mexico is known as the “hot land.”
What is Tierra Caliente?
These two types of trees grow in high cloud forests.
What are pine and oak trees?
These languages are based on Latin and named for their Roman roots.
What are Romance languages?
These two metals were sought by early European colonizers.
What are gold and silver?
This man-made waterway connects the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
What is the Panama Canal?
This rare ecosystem in Costa Rica is a high-elevation rainforest covered in low clouds.
What is a cloud forest?
These two trees are commonly found along Central America’s coasts.
What are palms and figs?
This ancient language is the root of Spanish and Portuguese.
What is Latin?
This type of energy is produced by rivers in Brazil and Paraguay.
What is hydroelectric power?
These islands were formed either by coral or submerged mountains.
What are the Caribbean Islands?
These two geographic factors explain Latin America’s wide range of climates.
What are latitude and altitude?
These underwater plants grow in coral reef ecosystems.
What are turtle grass and algae?
In 2017, this fraction of Latin Americans lived in Brazil.
What is one-third?
These two countries export 6% of the world’s oil.
What are Mexico and Venezuela?