Mexico Central America and Caribbean I
Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean are almost located in this zone.
What is the Tropical zone?
This form of tourism is directed toward exotic, often threatened, natural environments, intended to support conservation efforts and observe wildlife.
What is Ecotourism?
Name the mountain range on the western side of the South American continent.
What are the Andes Mountains?
Sao Paulo, Buenos Ares, and Rio de Janeiro are all examples of this in Brazil.
What are Megacities?
Name the war that gave Cuba independence and the US a military base in Cuba?
What is the Spanish American War?
This river is a natural border to between the Southwestern US and Mexico.
What is the Rio Grande?
Like South Carolina this natural disaster can affect the area of Central America and the Caribbean.
What is a hurricane?
This is a way to grow crops at different elevations.
What is Vertical Zonation?
A slum or shanty towns located within or on the outskirts of the country’s large cities is an example of.
What are Favela's?
This island became a British colony because of its location along prime shipping routes.
What are the Bahamas?
This Peninsula is home to Chichen Itza and is large and flat.
What is the Yucatan?
Clearing trees from land for commercial farmland and the illegal hunting of wildlife are examples of environmental issues in the region. Give their formal names?
What are deforestation and poaching?
Covering an area of 2.7 million sq miles and home to 390 billion individual trees as well as the South American Jaguar. Name this location.
What is the Amazon River Basin?
This area of Peru lay undiscovered until the 19th century?
What is Machu Picchu?
This farming practice of the Aztecs is an example of Human Environment Interaction. Name the practice?
What is Chinampa
True or False: The Sierra Madres consist of the Occidental and the Transcendental ranges.
What is False?
Mexico city has a population of 22 Million people this make it an example of.
What is a Mega City?
This group of Islands near Argentina were fought over by the British and Argentinians.
What are the Falkland Islands?
Spanish, Portuguese, French, and Dutch are all languages of.
What is South America?
the largest in its country, province, state, or region, and disproportionately larger than any others in the urban hierarchy and give an example of South America.
What is a Primate City and Buenos Aires?
Hispaniola consists of these two countries.
What are Haiti and the Dominican Republic?
This canal is a short trade route that connects the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans?
What is the Panama Canal?
What is El Nino?
True or False: Catholicism is the major religion of South America?
What is True?
Chavez and Maduro ushered in crisis in this South American country.
What is Venezuela?