Physical Features of Latin America
Political Features of Latin America
Environmental Issues of Latin America
People of Latin America
Climate and Natural
100
This is the name of the small desert in northern Chile that experiences no rainfall during the year.
What is the Atacama Desert?
100
This is an island country in the Caribbean Sea that can be identified by being distinctly whale-shaped.
What is Cuba?
100
This is the name of the most polluted city in the world, located in a Latin American country.
What is Mexico City?
100
These are the two most commonly-spoken languages in Latin America.
What are Spanish and Portuguese?
100
Because most of its land is covered by rainforest, the majority of this country's population lives along the Atlantic coast.
What is Brazil?
200
This is the world's largest rainforest that spans 9 countries but is mostly located in Brazil.
What is the Amazon Rainforest?
200
This is the most populated country in Latin America. It is unique from most of the other countries in Latin America because it speaks Portuguese instead of Spanish.
What is Brazil?
200
The primary cause of air pollution in Mexico City is the burning of this material by cars and factories.
What is fossil fuel?
200
Latin America gets its name because the majority of its people speak languages from this language family.
What is the Romance language family?
200
Sugarcane, tobacco, and nickel are the primary natural resources of this island nation.
What is Cuba?
300
This is the body of water connected to the Atlantic Ocean that borders eastern Mexico and the southern United States. It recently experienced a name change, but only in the United States.
What is the Gulf of Mexico?
300
This is a thin, small country in Central America that borders Colombia to the north. It contains a man-made waterway that allows ships to easily sail between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
What is Panama?
300
This is the environmental issue most facing the Amazon Rainforest today, in which trees are removed completely from the land.
What is deforestation?
300
Due to Spanish, French, and Portuguese colonization of most of Latin America, the majority of people in this country practice this religion.
What is Catholicism/Roman Catholocism?
300
DOUBLE POINTS:
What are the 3 main factors that influence where people choose to live in Latin America? (hint: LCNR)
What are Location, Climate, and Natural Resources?
400
This is the name of the physical feature of Mexico that is the primary cause of the high level of pollution in Mexico City, as wind cannot reach the city to carry smog away.
What are the Sierra Madres?
400
This is a country in western South America that contains both the Andes Mountains and the Atacama Desert. It is memorable by being shaped like a skinny pepper.
What is Chile?
400
YOU CHOOSE! Pick one of the following questions to answer.
This is the name for the collection of toxic emissions that gather in a large unit over Mexico City, which looks like a dirty fog over the city.
OR
This is the primary cause of deforestation in the Amazon Rainforest.
What is the Brown Cloud?
OR
What is cattle ranching?
400
This is the term used to describe how many people live within a specific area of land. It can be high (many people live in that area) or low (not many people live in that area).
What is population density?
400
This is the term used for city environments, areas in Latin America that have the highest population density.
What is urban?
500
If I wanted to fly from Florida to Brazil, I would need to fly over this warm, tropical body of water.
What is the Caribbean Sea?
500
This is the country that borders Chile to the east. It is a large, cone-shaped country. We labeled it so that you would not get confused between it and Chile.
What is Argentina?
500
This is the word used for laws that are passed by the government to control what businesses can and cannot do without being punished. This is the primary way that countries can combat environmental issues.
What are regulations?
500
DOUBLE POINTS:
This is the name of the government program put into effect in Mexico City that bans certain people from using their cars on certain days of the week in order to reduce fossil fuel emissions.
What is Hoy No Circula?
500
DOUBLE POINTS:
Mexico is a member of this trade agreement, which allows it to participate in free trade with other North American countries without the need for trade barriers.
What is the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA)?