Location and Physical Features
Name ONE of the two oceans that border Central America.
What is the Atlantic or Pacific Ocean?
The warm waters of the Caribbean Sea help these destructive storms form in the region.
What are hurricanes?
The number of countries in Central America.
What is seven?
This religion has become the most dominant since Spanish colonization of the region.
What is Catholicism or Catholic?
Too many people living in a small area is this issue facing urban dwellers in the region.
What is overpopulation or overcrowding?
An area of thick forest growth and heavy rainfall, some are found in Central America.
What is a rainforest or tropical forest?
This extreme physical region/feature brings dryness and substantial heat with very little vegetation/plants.
What is a desert?
The most southern country of Central America that has a canal and is an isthmus that connects North and South America.
What is Panama?
The primary language spoken in most countries of the region.
What is Spanish?
An earthquake or hurricane hitting Central America would be an example of this concern/issue facing the region.
What are natural disasters?
Central America is part of this continent.
What is North America?
This low latitude climate has heavy rainfall and warmer, hot temperatures. Tropical, temperate or extreme?
What is tropical?
Name ONE of the two minerals that Spanish colonizers mined and sent back to Europe.
What are gold or silver?
Portuguese is the main language spoken in this South American country.
What is Brazil?
Name ONE of the three major indigenous groups/ancient civilizations that still survive in the region today?
What are Aztec, Incan or Maya(n)?
This is a narrow strip of land that connects two large landmasses.
What is an isthmus?
Areas in the middle latitudes with mild weather conditions and changing seasons. Tropical, temperate or extreme?
What is temperate?
The percentage of the world's petroleum supply that comes from Mexico and Venezuela.
What is 14 percent?
Percent of the population in the region that lives in urban areas.
What is 75 percent or more than 75 percent?
The second longest river in the world, which also runs through South America.
What is the Amazon?
Name ONE of the two bodies of that surround the Caribbean Islands.
What are the Gulf of Mexico or Caribbean Sea?
Climate in the higher latitudes or near the poles with cool, short summers and harsh, cold winters. Tropical, temperate or extreme?
What is extreme?
This major crop from Central America is turned into something Mr. Holaway drinks almost every day and might die without.
What is coffee?
Name ONE of the two groups of people that were listed as living in rural villages/areas.
What are farmers or indigenous people?
The driest non-polar desert in the world, which is located in Chile.
What is the Atacama (Desert)?