Central American Countries
Chapter 11 Vocab
Landforms and Climates
Earth
Random
100
This country has a capital of San Salvador
What is El Salvador?
100
A narrow strip of land, with water on both sides, that connects two larger bodies of land.
What is and isthmus?
100
In this tropical wet, hot humid, with year-round high temps and heavy rainfall of 80 in, dense rainforest cover the infertile land.
What is the Caribbean Lowlands?
100
A sudden drop of mass of land down a mountain or hillside is known as this
What is a landslide?
100
Indians living on the Caribbean islands are few, why
What is because disease killed majority of them?
200
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What is Costa Rica?
200
Armed military people who fought outside of the regular army
What are Guerrillas?
200
This tropical wet and dry climate also comes with a savannah, along with nice moist winds that sweep from the north coast.
What is the Pacific coastal plain?
200
These series of huge waves is set off by an undersea earthquake or volcanic eruption, can be deadly
What is a Tsunami?
200
Costa Rica has a higher percentage of these kinds of people.
What are people of European decent?
300
This is the most populous country in Central America
What is Guatemala?
300
These islands are created from the remains of tiny sea animals.
What is a Coral island?
300
These islands were created by, tectonic activity that pushed mountains up fro, the ocean floor.
What are the Greater Antilles?
300
A part of Earth's crust, which moves against other plates causing land to rise, mountains and volcanoes to form
What are tectonic plates?
300
This type of economy is very dependable in the Caribbean islands.
What is Agriculture?
400
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What is Jamaica?
400
A chain of islands that are between the Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean sea
What is an archipelago?
400
This landform region has two climate zones, Springlike and cold
What is the mountainous core?
400
This sudden fall of mass of ice and snow, could happen in our own rocky mountains.
What is an avalanche?
400
Most people in Central America earn a living by
What is farming?
500
Name all 7 countries that occupy this Central American isthmus between Mexico and Columbia.
What is Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama.
500
If windward is facing the wind than leeward must mean
What is facing away from the wind?
500
Dense rain forest can be found in this landform region.
What is the Caribbean lowlands?
500
Vibrations that travel through the ground.
What are Seismic Waves?
500
Many people migrated to these Caribbean islands due to this oppurtunity
What is Work on plantations?