Climate
Physical Features
regions & economics
Demographics & population
Human-Environment Interaction and Point of View
100
This makes the Atacama a desert
What are cold ocean currents?
100
This volcanic mountain chain runs down the west coast of South America
What is the Andes?
100
Mexico City and its suburbs form this type of region
What is a Functional region?
100
These areas have high literacy rates and low birth rates, with high GNP per capita.
What are "rich", or devloped countries?
100
This isthmus was modified to made trade between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans easier.
What is Panama?
200
There are several climate, or agricultural zones here, including Tierra Fria, Tierra templada, and Tierra Caliente.
What is the Andes?
200
This peninsula separates the Caribbean from the Gulf of Mexico.
What is the Yucatan?
200
Patagonia, the Pantanal, and the Mato Grosso Plateau are examples of this type of region.
What is a Formal region?
200
The Amazon is thick forest with a sparse population, so it has a low _____ ______
What is population density?
200
These 2 tectonic natural hazards required people to make adaptations in Latin America
What are earthquakes and volcanoes?
300
This makes the Amazon warm.
What is the equator?
300
This grassland in Argentina is similar to the American Great Plains.
What is the Pampas?
300
This treaty provides for the removal of tariffs between Mexico, the US, and Canada.
What is the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)?
300
When people settle around the edge of a continent or land mass it is this kind of development.
What is peripheral development?
300
The US doesn't get along with the leader of this South American oil giant, but its people love their leader.
What is Venezuela?
400
Higher is colder
How does elevation affect temperature?
400
These are the smaller, volcanic islands in the Caribbean Sea.
What is the Lesser Antilles?
400
This encourages people to move to the Amazon, leading to deforestation of the rainforest
What are government policies?
400
South America has peripheral development because of these (3) physical features.
What are the Amazon, the Andes and the Brazilian highlands?
400
Something went wrong at the Itaipu dam, on the border between Brazil and Paraguay, last night, and Brazil's major cities lost all their electricity as a result. The dam was built when people _________ the environment to produce hydroelectricity.
What is modified?
500
This makes Tierra del Fuego cold
What is location near the pole?
500
Cuba, Jamaica, Hispanola, and Puerto Rico
What are the Greater Antilles?
500
The location of resources such as silver and gold, coral reefs, or good ports affects people and goods using this geographic theme.
What is Movement?
500
war, disease, famine, drought, industrialization, and political instability are factors of this type of migration.
What is Push-Pull?
500
Cattle barons want to cut down the Amazon rainforest to create grasslands for cattle; indigenous Amazonian tribes want to preserve their home as it is. These 2 groups have each see the situation from their own _____
What is Point of View?