The narrow land link between North and South America.
What is Central America.
100
One dominating physical feature in South America are the towering mountain range of the
What are the Andes?
100
Most of the major rivers in Latin America are in
What is South America?
100
Coffee is an example of a _____ _____ because it is grown only to trade for money or food.
What is cash crop.
100
The large body of water that stretches from Mexico to Florida
Where is the Gulf of Mexico?
200
The island of the Caribbeans are also known as the
What is the West Indies
200
The exposed peaks of an underwater mountain range make up these islands.
What are the Caribbean islands?
200
The hemishere that holds all of Latin America.
What is the western hemishere?
200
People have become concerned about the practice of cutting down trees to farmland. This is called..
What is deforestation.
200
Large body of water that reaches from the island of Cuba to South America.
What is the Caribbean Sea.
300
What three tropical latitudes run through Latin America?
What are Tropic of Cancer, Tropic of Capricorn and the Equator?
300
The grassy, treeless plain of Argentina and Uruguay are known as ___?
What are pampas?
300
The Aztec and Inca empires were conquered by Spanish____?
Who are conquistadors?
300
One method of clearing the land after the trees are cut down involves setting all the debris on fire.
What is slash and burning farming.
300
What manmade canal located in Latin America is used as a major shipping route?
What is the Panama Canal?
400
The three major Native American Empires.
What are the Incas, Aztecs and Maya,
400
What are the two dominant climate regions found in the Amazon river basin?
Where is the tropical rainforest and tropical savanna?
400
As the Spaniards conquered the Native Americans what religion did they pass on to the native people?
What is Roman Catholicism.
400
The practice of planting young trees or seeds of trees on the lands that have been stripped of trees is _____
What is reforestation.
400
This river is the boundary between the United States and Mexico.
What is the Rio Grande River?
500
The imaginary line the Pope drew from the North Pole to the South Pole to separate the Americas.
What is the Line of Demarcation.
500
Tenochititian
What is the Aztec's capital city?
500
As we have seen with many other populations we have studied this semester people looking for a better life leave the farms and move to the ____? Although many of them find slums and shanty towns because there are not enough jobs.
What are cities.
500
This country just south of the United States has well-developed power sources and abundant natural resources which have made industrial expansion possible.
What is Mexico
500
The South America country that stretches down the west side.