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Land and Water
Climate and Vegetation
Resources and Land Use
Vocabulary
Other
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Second longest river in the world
What is the Amazon
100
Warming of ocean water along western coast of South America
What is El Nino
100
Harnessing Rushing water to create energy is known as
What is hydroelectricity
100
Things found in nature that people can use to meet their needs
What are natural resources
100
Central America is what type of landform?
What is an isthmus
200
Islands located in Latin America
What is the Caribbean
200
Location and Elevation affect what?
What is Climate
200
This mineral is used to make aluminum
What is bauxite
200
The height of land above sea level
What is elevation
200
Mexico and Central America are made up of mountains and many
What are active volcanoes
300
Mountain Range in South America
What are the Andes Mountains
300
Ways goods and services are produced and made available to people
What is an economy
300
an economy that depends largely on one resource or crop
What is a one resource economy
300
Rivers and streams that flow into a larger river
What are tributaries
300
The Caribbean is made up of skeletons of tiny sea animals known as
What is coral
400
Large region of flat grasslands
What are pampas
400
These crops require warm weather and abundant rainfall, Name one.
What is sugar cane, coffee, bananas
400
Columbia and Brazil make some of the world's best
What is coffee
400
A strip of land with water on both sides that joins two larger bodies of land
What is an isthmus
400
Elevation affects climate and
What is vegetation
500
Dense evergreen forest with abundant rainfall
What is the rain forest
500
Latin America mostly has this type of climate
What is tropical wet climate
500
To add variety
What is diversify
500
A large raised area of mostly level land
What is a plateau
500
Pope Francis I is from what city in Argentina?
What is Buenos Aires