This is not just a desert, but also the driest place on Earth.
What is the Atacama Desert?
100
This is the cross-disiplinary study of the Earth's atmosphere.
What is Meteorology?
100
This is the primary force that causes areas of lower elevation to have higher air density than areas of higher elevation.
What is gravity?
100
This is the largest Urban Center in Latin America, north of the Equator.
What is Mexico City?
100
These were the three primary civilizations present in Latin America prior to the arrival of Europeans.
Who are the Aztecs, Mayans, and the Incas?
200
This activity is actually the number one way in which land is currently used in Central America.
What is farming?
200
This is what transpires when a hurricane passes over a large landmass.
What is a loss in strength?
200
This is the primary crop grown in the vertical climate zone of the Tierra Templada.
What is coffee?
200
A storm surge, or the high water level brought by a cyclone that swamps a low-lying area.
What is the primary way in which a hurricane causes damage on land?
200
This is the largest religious group in Latin America.
Who are Roman Catholics?
300
These are negative events resulting from natural processes on Earth.
What is a natural disaster?
300
1. Rising warm, moist air. Warm ocean waters. Rain. Developing Thunderclouds.
2. Storm begins circling. More incoming warm, moist air.
3. Winds between 29mph and 74mph. Descending cool air.
4. Winds over 74mph.
What is the process for forming a Tropical Cyclone?
300
These are the four Vertical Climate Zones.
What are Tierra Fria, Tierra Templada, Tierra Helada, and Tierra Calienta?
300
This is the trading of good s and/or services between low-lying areas and the highlands.
What is Vertical Trade?
300
These are the two most spoken languages in Latin America.
What are Spanish and Portuguese?
400
This major physical feature runs all along the western side of South America; going through seven different countries.
What is the Andes Mountain Range?
400
This is a prolonged warming of ocean surface water; or simply a warming of the ocean current.
What is El Nino?
400
This is the correct order from lower elevation to higher elevation, of the the four Vertical Climate Zones?
What are Tierra Caliente, Tierra Templada, Tierra Fria, and Tierra Helada?
400
This farming method has been used throughout the Andes Mountain Range for centuries, and is the only way possible to raise large amounts of crops on a steep hillside.
What is terrace farming?
400
This was an idea/principle adopted by the United States of America, that led to it intervening in Latin America off-and-on over the last 150 years.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
500
These are the seven countries, through which, the Andes Mountain Range run.
What are: Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, and Argentina?
500
This event is caused by certain points on the Earth moving faster than others, due to the rotation of the Earth. This process is a major factor in wind and ocean currents.
What is the Coriolis Effect?
500
This vertical climate zone lies mostly above the tree-line.
What is the Tierra Helada?
500
Hurricanes, tornadoes, blizzards, Typhoon, Tsunami, Waterspout, Dust-storm, Hailstorm, and Wildfires.
What are examples of extreme weather?
500
These were two of the racial groups that were part of the strict social later in Latin America. One was of European and Native ancestry, and the other was of European and African ancestry.