This U.S. agency is responsible for protecting air and water quality.
What is the EPA?
These mountains are considered the oldest in North America.
What is the boreal forest?
What high percentage metal is found and mined in Central America? What is this area in Central America called?
- Silver
-Silver Belt
What is this?

What is Pampas?
What country has the highest rate of theses in the ocean?
What is Denmark
This type of storm forms over warm ocean waters and includes strong winds and heavy rain. What is a hurricane?
What is a hurricane?
These three groups are recognized as the Indigenous peoples of Canada.
Who are the First Nations, Inuit, and Métis?
This Spanish conquistador led the defeat of the Aztec Empire.
Who was Hernán Cortés?
This geographic feature makes Chile and Peru leading producers of copper.
What are rich mineral deposits in the Andes Mountains?
Who are these?

Who are vikings?
This term describes a large urban region made up of many connected cities.
What is a megalopolis?
This French‑speaking cultural group is centered in the province of Quebec.

Who are the Québécois?
This term describes a city with a population of over 10 million people.
What is a Megacity?
This environmental problem is caused by logging, construction, and poor farming practices.
What is soil erosion?
What are the three prominent and crucial peninsulas in Southern Europe?
What are the Iberian Peninsula, Italian Peninsula, and Balkan Peninsula?
This act, passed in 1972, was designed to protect lakes and rivers.
What is the Clean Water Act?
Canada’s economy relies heavily on exporting these products, including lumber and paper.
What are forestry products?
Many Central American countries struggle with this challenge involving clean water, electricity, and waste removal.
What are infrastructure challenges?
This term describes the loss of educated or skilled workers to other countries.
What is brain drain?
This environmental issue occurs when non‑native plants or animals damage local ecosystems.
What are invasive species?
These mountains are considered the oldest in North America.

What is the Appalachian Mountains?
This environmental issue threatens Canada’s forests due to logging and resource extraction.
What is deforestation?
This large lake is an important physical feature of Nicaragua.
What is Lake Nicaragua?
This law, passed in 2004, aimed to reduce deforestation in parts of South America.
What is the Zero Deforestation Law?
This river system in Norway includes the Glama River and supports hydroelectric power.
What is a Scandinavian river system?