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What is the second longest river in the world? (Excluding tributaries)
What is the Amazon River
100
This regions volcanic soil leas to very rich and fertile farmland.
What is the Caribbean
100
Latin America has what general climate?
What is tropical.
100
List an example of cultural blending
What is Day of Dead, etc.
100
List the three main regions inlcuded within the term "Latin America"
What is Mexico and Central America, South America and the Caribbean
200
What desert is considered the driest desert in the world?
What is the Atacama Desert
200
An agricultural crop which is grown for sale for profit is called _____________.
What is a cash crop
200
Most rainforests are located in what regions?
What is equatorial regions (by the equator!)
200
People of mixed African and European ancestry are called _____________?
What is Mulattoes
200
A narrow strip of land between two waterways is called a _________________.
What is an isthmus
300
Giant tortoises gave their name to the _____________.
What is the Galapagos Islands
300
Region with a weather of bananas, coffee and cocaine.
What is South America
300
What region containss good farmland for coffee and cacaco
What is Central America
300
Where did the Aztecs live before Spainish conquers arrived.
What is Modern day Mexico City
300
The capital of Chile is ________________.
What is Santiago
400
Below the southern tip of the South American landmass is the treacherous __________________.
What is Cape Horn
400
Chile has the world's only natural deposits of ________________.
What is sodium nitrate
400
Wind patterns in the andes create ________________ on the back side of mountians.
What is deserts
400
Why is Latin America in a region of its own.
What is language (latin roots)
400
The board, grassy plains that cover over half of Colombia are the __________________.
What is the Mato Grosso Plateau
500
Lake Titicaca is located on what plateau?
What is Andean Plateau
500
The method of freeze-drying was created by the ________.
What is the Aztecs
500
What region contains several different biomes
What is the Brazilian highlands
500
How did the Spainish conquer Latin America so easily?
What is military advantages, culture, disease, natives were not unified (need to list three)
500
The Guiana Highlands have continental lithosphere exposed causing ridges called ________________.
What is Cratons