North America
The country that is on the United States' northern border
What is Canada?
The southernmost region of North America, lying between Mexico and South America and comprising Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Belize
What is Central America?
"Farmers...are rapidly destroying this lush landscape. They are cutting and burning trees to make room for their soybean fields and cattle ranches". Paradise Lost
What is the Amazon rainforest?
The exact location of a place
What is absolute location?
The setting of the folktale The Terrible Chenoo
What is North America?
A word that could refer to any of the countries in North, South, or Central America, not just the United States
What is America?
A man-made waterway that cuts through the Isthmus of Panama to connect the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans
What is the Panama Canal?
Many animals live in the warm, wet rainforest or the grassy savanna of this country. It has over 1,500 species of birds and more than 500 types of amphibians.
What is Brazil?
A description of where something is
What is relative location?
A piece of land almost surrounded by water or projecting out into a body of water
What is an isthmus?
A new territory in the very north of Canada, populated by the Inuit people North America, Dear Pen Pal
What is Nunavut?
The Greek word for "middle"
What is meso?
One of the world's most extreme deserts, found in this South American country
What is the Atacama Desert, in Chile?
This type of map shows the physical features of an area, gives information about the height, depth, and shape of these features, and shows mountains, deserts, bodies of water, and other landforms
What is a physical map?
Made up of more than 700 islands, ranging from tiny islets to nation states
What is the Caribbean?
A country in North America that is three times as big as the state of Texas
What is Mexico?
One of the most famous characters in Caribbean folklore
Who is Anansi the Spider?
The site of an ancient city, and one of the most visited sites in the world. It is located in the Cusco region of Peru in the Andes Mountains
What is Machu Picchu?
An area with definable characteristics (usually definite boundaries)
What is a region?
The setting of Conejito
What is Panama?
This region extends from southern Alaska and along Canada’s coastline to Washington, Oregon, and northern California
What is the Pacific Northwest?
Naturally green fruits common in the Caribbean islands
What are plantains?
The source of the Amazon River
What is the Andes Mountains in Peru?
Materials or substances such as minerals, forests, water, and fertile land that occur in nature and can be used for economic gain
What are natural resources?
The smallest country in Central America
What is El Salvador?