Rivers
Landforms
Zones
People
Places
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The longest river in South America
What is the Amazon River?
100
What separates the people of the western South America from those living in eastern South America?
What is the Andes Mountains?
100
People who live at high elevations must adapt to
What is lower temperatures?
100
Many of the first colonies in Latin America were established by the
What is Spanish?
100
The largest tropical rain forest in the world is located in
What is Brazil?
200
The only navigable river in Middle America
What is the Rio Grande?
200
The Pampas region in S.A. is most widely used for
What is farming and raising cattle?
200
What elevation has the coldest temperature?
What is higher elevation or tierra fria
200
One way in which Latin Americans differ from Canadians is that many Latin Americans are
What is of mixed ancestry?
200
The Amazon Rain Forest is important to the whole world because
What is it gives off much of the world's oxygen
300
The Rio de la Plata river system in S.A. is important mainly because
What is a transportation route?
300
Many Latin American countries have trouble developing and using their natural resources because
What is they are hard to reach?
300
The tierra fria would best be described as
What is cold?
300
People of mixed Indian and European ancestry are referred to as
What is mestizos?
300
In which area do the descendants of enslaved Africans love mainly today
What is the Caribbean?
400
Many rural Latin Americans are moving to cities in search of
What are jobs?
400
What term best describes the ethnic diversity of Latin America?
What is melting pot?
400
The hot, tropical lowland zone of Latin America is called
What is tierra caliente?
400
People of African and European ancestry are called
What is mulatto?
400
The most populated areas of Latin America are
What is the coastal cities?
500
This river begins in Columbia and flows across Venezuela and empties into the Atlantic ocean
What is the Orinoco River?
500
In most of Latin America the European influence is most evident in the peoples'
What is religion?
500
The name of the middle area zone is called
What is tierra templada?
500
When the Indians dies, the Europeans brought over these people as slaves
What is African people?
500
One of the largest metropolitan areas in the world is
What is Mexico City?