LA Countries
This country is home to the Amazon Rainforest.
What is Brazil?
The Andes Mountains are located on this continent.
What is South America?
This is the largest rainforest left in the world today.
What is the Amazon Rainforest?
The large demand for this product is a huge contributor to deforestation and cattle ranching.
What is beef?
Air pollution and crime are two major obstacles for this country in Latin America.
What is Mexico?
This country is bordered by Peru, Bolivia, Argentina and the Pacific Ocean.
What is Chile?
The Sierra Madre Mountains are located in this country.
What is Mexico?
The Amazon Rainforest produces 1/3 of the earth's oxygen and boasts this nickname.
What is the "lungs of the earth"?
This special type of wood is harvested to sale to make furniture in the rainforest.
What is teak?
Name two major threats to human health in Latin America.
What are harmful gases and chemicals?
This country is home to the Panama Canal, a major shortcut for ships to cross from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean.
What is Panama?
One of the driest place on Earth, this desert is located in Chile.
What is the Atacama Desert?
The rainforest produces this many different types of fruits?
What is 3,000?
These three activities performed by Amazonians do not cause long term damage to the rainforest.
What are hunting, fishing, and farming?
This landform traps polluted air and smog in Mexico City making it difficult to breathe.
What is the Sierra Madre Mountains?
Mexico is committed to improving its air quality. Name two programs that have been established.
What are "Hoy No Circula" and the Metrobus transportation system.
Earth is covered in 70% water. This ocean is the largest ocean.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
The rainforest produces many favorite foods for the world. Name four of these foods.
What are bananas, peanuts, cacao, peppers, coffee, and sugarcane?
This farming method allows huge parts of the rainforest to cut down to plant crops.
What is "slash and burn"?
Mexico City's high level of pollution causes damage to these areas of the human body.
What are the eyes and heart?
Fidel Castro, legendary revolutionist and leader led this country for decades.
What is Cuba?
These two water bodies flow into the Atlantic Ocean and are popular tourist attractions for Latin America.
What are the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea?
The rainforest produces many benefits from its plants. These products help treat people all over the world.
Prescription drugs (prescription drugs for cancer)
The building of hydroelectric dams have created these two damaging effects.
What are flooding and cutting down of trees and plants?
This state oil company has started selling lower-sulfur and unleaded gasoline to help create cleaner air.
What is Pemex?