Latin America Facts
What is the largest country in South America?
Brazil
How many continents are there?
7
Cuba, Jamaica and Puerto Rico and located in which body of water?
Caribbean Sea
Which river flows through Brazil and empties into the Atlantic Ocean? ________________________.
Amazon River
What are the names of the continents that Latin America sit on?
North America, South America
What Central American country connects North and South America?
Panama
Name all the continents.
Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Europe, Antarctica, and Australia
The _____________________________________ is a man-made water feature that allows ships to pass easily between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans?
Panama Canal
This place in Chile is known as the driest place on the Earth!
______________________________.
Atacama Desert
Name two languages that are most commonly spoken in Latin American countries.
Spanish and Portuguese
What is a Latin American country that runs along the southern border of the USA?
Mexico
Which continent is the LARGEST?
Asia
What is the name of the major mountain range in Mexico that is made up of a chain of 3 mountains? ______________________________.
Sierra Madre
_______________________ is the largest island in the Caribbean Sea.
Cuba
______________________ is Cuba’s capital city.
Havana
Which South American country is long, thin and located along the Pacific Ocean?
Chile
Which continent has the highest population?
Asia
The ________________________________ is the World’s largest tropical rainforest.
Amazon Rainforest
Most people in Brazil live in large cities along the ______________________________.
Atlantic Ocean
Cuba’s rich soil allows for the growth of ____________________, __________________ and _______________________.
coffee, sugarcane and tobacco
The ________________ is an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that lies between Mexico and Florida.
Which continent has the smallest population?
Antarctica
The ________________________________ is a mountain range that runs along the western coast of South America.
Andes Mountains
What is Mexico's capitol city?
Mexico City