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CLIMATE AND LAND
LAND FORMS
COUNTRIES
CAPITAL CITIES
POTPOURRI
100
Movements below the surface of Central America.
What are earthquakes?
100
A dense forest that grows in a warm, moist area.
What is a rainforest?
100
This country was a colony of England.
What is Belize?
100
Capital of Panama.
What is Panama City?
100
This is the number of countries in Central America.
What is seven?
200
Most of the land in Central America is owned by _______.
What is a few rich families?
200
The country that is to the North of Central America.
What is Mexico?
200
This is the largest county in Central America.
What is Nicaragua?
200
Capital of Guatemala.
What is Guatemala City?
200
The culture of Central America is a blend of these.
What are Native American and Spanish influences?
300
The climate of Central America is mainly _____.
What is warm and wet?
300
The country south of Central America.
What is Columbia?
300
This is the smallest but most crowded country in Central America.
What is El Salvador?
300
Capital of El Salvador.
What is San Salvador?
300
Between 300 and 900 AD, this civilization grew and made several advancements.
What is Maya?
400
As a result of good climate and soil, the economy of the region is based on _______.
What is agriculture?
400
Houses are made from this material as a result of frequent earthquakes.
What is adobe, or dried mud and straw?
400
Last part of the natural land bridge between North and South America and home to a famous canal.
What is Panama?
400
Capital of Costa Rica.
What is San Jose?
400
About half the people of Guatemala are mestizos, called ____.
What is ladinos?
500
Among Central America's most famous and most important cash crops are________.
What bananas and coffee?
500
Benefits of volcanoes (3).
What fertile soil, valuable minerals, and geothermal power?
500
This country has a stable government and good economy but no army.
What is Costa Rica?
500
Capital city of Nicaragua.
What is Managua?
500
Tension and political unrest in Central America have been a result of __________.
What is unequal land ownership?