Regions of Latin America
Where is it?
Elevation Zones
Geographic Information
Amazon River and Rainforest
100
The most northern country in Latin America. It shares a border with the United States.
What is Mexico?
100
This runs for 5,000 miles along the western coast of South America.
What are the Andes mountains?
100

Some flat areas of the Caribbean can actually develop these runoff areas?

What are swamps?


100

Mt. Aconcagua is the highest peak of which mountain range?

What are the Andes?

100
The Amazon River begins here as a trickle.
What is the Andes Mountains.
200
A narrow region that connects North America to South America.
What is Central America?
200

An active volcano that had laid dormant for 365 years is found on an island in this portion of Latin American 

What is the Caribbean islands

200

The air in the top of the Sierra Madres makes this difficult.

 What is breathe'?

200
A natural disaster that occurs frequently in Central America, often destroying buildings and causing mudslides.
What are earthquakes.
200
The Amazon River is one of the world's most important rivers because of this.
What is it carries more water than any other river in the world.
300
A group of islands that were formed either because of volcanic action or build up of skeletons from coral.
What are the Caribbean Islands.
300

This is found at the southern tip of South America.

What is Cape Horn?

300

 A area filled with flora and fauna located at both high and low elevations.

 What are rainforests?

300

The reason Mexico has frequent earthquakes are these found on the ocean floor. 

What are tectonic plates?

300
Plants and animals in the Amazon Rain forest are at risk because of people doing this.
What is deforestation?
400
A continent that includes one of the world's largest rivers, longest mountain chains, and largest rain forest.
What is South America?
400

 The Amazon River starts at the base of this ocean?

 What is the Atlantic?

400

The mountain range with steep embankments impossible to build on.

What are the Sierra Madre Mountains?

400

The people living in the highest parts of the Andes raise these animals for their wool and for transportation.

What are llamas and alpacas?

400

People are clearing some of the land in the rain forest because they want to raise this to feed cattle.

What is soy?

500
All of the countries in the Western Hemisphere that are south of the United States make up this.
What is Latin America?
500
The Latitude line at zero degrees. It runs through Ecuador, Columbia, and Brazil.
What is the equator?
500

Which continent has the higher elevation; North America or South America?

What is south america?

500

The word describing the climate of the desert land found in Caribbean

What is arid

500

Some scientists think that deforestation contributes to global warming because of this.

What is an increase in the buildup of carbon dioxide in the air?

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