Costa Rica
This is a narrow strip of land that connects two larger land areas.
What is an isthmus?
These two countries make up the island of Hispaniola.
What are Haiti and the Dominican Republic?
This is the Brazilian government's role in deforestation.
What is they are trying to stop it?
This is the area of Brazil's economic heartland.
What is the southeast?
After slavery ended in the Caribbean, many immigrants arrived from this continent:
What is Asia?
This is the main crop of Portuguese plantations in Brazil's northeast:
What is sugar?
This home, made of tin and mud, is called a:
What is a favela?
These necessary items are made from plants found only in the Amazon Rain Forest region.
What are medicines?
These are islands with flatter terrain and were created by the remains of colonies of tiny, soft-bodied sea animals.
What are coral islands?
This causes transportation problems in Central America.
What are mountains?
When farmers began to clear the rain forests region to create farms, they discovered this.
What is the soil was not good for farming?
Many people on the Caribbean islands leave in search of this:
What is employment?
The number of Indians that live in the Amazon river basin is:
What is 200,000?
Of the two sides of a mountain -- the leeward and the windward -- this side gets much less rain.
What is the leeward side?
Today Brazil is often referred to as this because of it grows one-fourth of the world's coffee.
What is the world's coffeepot?
This is a member of a group that fights against the national army.
What is a guerrilla?
These two bodies of water surround the Caribbean islands.
What are the Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea?
This one of the causes of conflict in Central America.
What is a shortage of farmland?
This is a group of islands.
What is an archipelago?
This is a sharp cliff between different levels of land.
What is an escarpment?
To encourage people to move to the interior, Brazil built a new capital and these:
What are many roads?
Besides building new roads to the new capital of Brazil to encourage people to move into the interior, the government also gave this to people.
What is land?
No one knows exactly when this began, but people were probably making crude types of soaps thousands of years ago.
What is "this"?
This fuel is made by the mixing of gasoline and ethanol.
What is gasohol?
These terms/phrases best describe most of the people of Central America.
What are poor farmers with little political power?