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What is the middle line of longitude?
Prime Meridian
Puerto Rico belongs to which country today?
U.S.
The Andes Mountains stretch along which coast of South America?
west
What is the largest country in South America?
Brazil
Puerto Rico is located in what sea?
Caribbean
What is a piece of land that is surrounded on 3 sides by water called?
peninsula
What was the main crop harvested by slaves in the Caribbean?
What two oceans border Central America?
Atlantic and Pacific
What three oceans border Canada?
Arctic, Pacific, Atlantic
What type of disaster struck Haiti in 2010?
earthquake
What is the average condition of the atmosphere over a period of time?
climate
Who brought over diseases to the Caribbean that killed natives?
Europeans
Most of the islands in the Caribbean were formed from what?
volcanoes
What are the two countries in the Caribbean that share the same island?
Haiti, Dominican Republic
What religion are 80% of South Americans?
Catholic
What is the location around the Pacific Ocean where many earthquakes and volcanoes occur called?
Ring of Fire
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What is a group of plants and animals together called?
ecosystem
Why did Europeans bring slaves to the Caribbean Islands?
to work on plantations
A smaller river that drains into a larger river is called a what?
tributary
What is the name of the location in Arizona that includes the Grand Canyon?
Great Basin
What is a flat piece of land next to the sea called?
coastal plain
What is money sent back to another country called?
remittance
What is the name of the effect that causes it to rain on only one side of a mountain range?
rain shadow
Flat farmland built into a hillside is called a what?
terrace