Latin America's Physical Features
This is a body of water can be found off the southeastern coast of North America & Mexico.
What is the Gulf of Mexico?
A long, narrow Latin American country on the west coast of South America; borders the Pacific Ocean; home to the Andes Mountains.
What is Chile?
How a citizen interacts with their government is known as this
What is citizen participation?
A government that is ruled by the people.
What is democracy?
A large system of mountain ranges located along the Pacific coast of Central and South America.
What are the Andes Mountains?
This is a body of water is located east of Central America and north of South America; it also surrounds several islands
What is the Caribbean Sea?
This is the largest country in both South America and Latin America.
What is Brazil?
What are the two types of government we learned about in Latin America?
What is a democracy & autocracy?
A system of government run by one person with absolute power.
What is an autocracy?
The ocean to the west of Latin America; also known as the largest ocean in the world.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
Located primarily is Brazil, the nearly 4,000-mile long body of water is the world's second longest river.
What is the Amazon River?
A country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the US; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; to the southeast by the Caribbean Sea; and to the east by the Gulf of Mexico.
What is the Mexico?
When a country is ruled by a single person who controls by force.
What is a Dictatorship?
A 1 house legislature in Latin American is known as this.
What is a Unicameral Congress?
A Caribbean country that shares the island of Hispaniola with the Dominican Republic to its east.
What is Haiti?
Constructed in 1914 across the Isthmus of Panama, this manmade waterway allows for the passage of vessels between the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean.
What is the Panama Canal?
Island to the south of the U.S., near Florida; located where the northern Caribbean Sea, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Atlantic Ocean meet.
What is Cuba?
What form of democracy does Brazil have?
What is Federal Republic?
This region in the 19th century experienced a wave of independence movements following the American and French Revolutions.
What is Latin America?
The lawmaking body of government is known as
What is legislature?
These are a series of mountain ranges extending along the eastern, western, and southern sides of Mexico.
What are the Sierra Madres Mountains?
A northern country in Latin America that connects Central America to South America.
What is Colombia?
What type of democracy does Mexico have?
What is Federal Republic?
A 2 house legislature in Latin American is known as this.
What is a Bicameral Congress?
These 3 regions make up Latin America.
What is Mexico, the Caribbean Islands, & South America?