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Vocabulary
Land and Water
Climate and Vegetation
Natural Resources
~Bonus~
100
Central America is a narrow strip of land, or ___, that lies between Mexico and South America.
What is an isthmus?
100
The whole of Latin America is located here.
What is the Western Hemisphere?
100
This is true about the climate in all of Latin America.
What is it's very diverse?
100
This happens in Chile when the world price of copper drops.
What is the Chilean economy suffers?
100
These are the two ways the Caribbean Islands were formed.
What are from coral, tiny animal skeletons, and the tops of underwater mountains?
200
Argentina's prized cattle graze on plains called the ___.
What is the Pampas?
200
These are the three regions of Latin America.
What are Mexico & Central America, the Caribbean, and South America?
200
These are three factors that affect the climates of Latin America.
What are latitude, elevation, and wind patterns?
200
This is the most profitable natural resource of Venezuela?
What is oil?
200
This river is called the "Ocean River."
What is the Amazon River?
300
The Amazon has hundreds of rivers and streams that flow into it, each of which is called a(n) ___.
What is a tributary?
300
This is the largest rain forest in the world.
What is the Amazon River Basin?
300
This is an example of how climate affects vegetation.
(answers will vary)
300
Farmers who live in Uruguay, Argentina, and Paraguay may grow this.
What is wheat?
300
This cold desert is the driest desert in the whole world.
What is the Atacama Desert?
400
Down the center of Mexico is a(n) ___, or a large, mostly flat, highland area.
What is a plateau?
400
This is the mountain range in Mexico.
What is the Sierra Madre?
400
Soil in Mexico and Central America is made rich by: a. volcanic ash b. ocean coasts c. melting snow d. decomposing leaves
What is choice a. volcanic ash?
400
The rivers in Central America produce this.
What is hydroelectricity?
400
Most people in Mexico live here.
What is the Central Plateau?
500
The height of land above sea level is called __.
What is elevation?
500
This is a cold, dry place in Argentina.
What is the Patagonia?
500
In the Caribbean, June is the ___ season while December is the ____ season.
What is rainy in June and dry in December?
500
Many Latin Americans depend too much on one resource. They are now doing this to protect their economies from suffering.
What is diversifying, or adding variety and relying on more than one product?
500
Two South American countries that produce coffee as a crop are ____ and ______.
What are Brazil and Colombia?