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Map Skills
Natural Resources
and Climate
Population Distribution and Language
Government and environmental concerns
Vocabulary
100
_____________ is the largest country in South America
What is Brazil
100
What is an important natural resource throughout Latin America?
What is Oil
100
The people in Latin American countries mostly live in _______ areas.
What is urban?
100
The form of government in which the leader is selected by the legislature.
What is Parliamentary democracy
100
having specified weather conditions over an extended period of time
What is Climate
200
Cuba is nearest to what state in the United States?
What is Florida
200
The most common climate in Latin America is
What is hot, tropical?
200
The most common language spoken in Latin America is
What is Spanish
200
a system of government in which the central government holds all the power BONUS: Name another system of government and state who holds the power
What is unitary? BONUS: Confederation - states OR Federal - power shared
200
Industrial materials and capacities (such as mineral deposits and water power) supplied by nature
What is Natural resource
300
Mexico is home to what mountain range?
What are the Sierra Madre Mountains
300
The climate in Latin America is a result of
What is closeness to the equator
300
The language spoken in Brazil
What is Portuguese
300
____________ is causing air pollution in Mexico City, Mexico
What is cars, factories
300
products a country produces and ships or sells to other countries are called ___________
What is exports
400
The _________________________________ is located in Chile.
What is Atacama Desert
400
Name a common resource found in many Latin American countries.
What is coffee, sugarcane, tobacco, fish, citrus fruits
400
The language spoken in Brazil is different from other Latin American countries because
What is it was colonized by Portugal
400
An important natural resource in Venezuela that has also caused a great deal of pollution is ____________
What is oil
400
clearance or removal of a forest, in which the land is then used for a non-forest purpose
What is deforestation
500
_____________ is like a bridge that connects Central America and South America? BONUS: What else is significant about this country?
What is Panama
500
A natural resource in Brazil that is being destroyed
What is Amazon rainforest
500
In Brazil, people live in big cities located along the ______
What is coast?
500
Deforestation in Brazil is causing many problems. Name one.
What is threatening the amount of oxygen on Earth, extinction of people, animals, and plants in the environment
500
rule, control, or leadership by one person with total power
What is a dictatorship?