What is the name of the mountain range that covers the continent from Mexico to the tip of South America?
What are the Andes Mountains?
100
What are the three kinds of plains found in Latin America?
What are Llanos, Cerrados, and Pampas?
100
What is the largest country in South America?
What is Brazil?
100
The three major climate zones in Latin america are ______, __________, and ________.
What are Tropical, Dry, and Mid-Latitude?
100
______ and ____ is a farming technique used by native people to clear land.
What is Slash and Burn?
200
How many miles across is the continent of Latin America from northern Mexico to the southern tip of Argentina?
What is 7000 miles?
200
What are the three major rivers in Latin America?
What are the Amazon, the Orinoco, and the Parana?
200
The country of ________ is bordered on one side by the Andes Mountains and the other by the Pacific Ocean.
What is Chile?
200
Tropical wet and dry climates support _______, which are common in tropic and sub-tropic climates.
What are Savannas?
200
What is a technique for crops used on slopes? {look for the picture on your question sheet}
What is terraced farming?
300
What are the four bodies of water surrounding Latin America?
What are the Pacific Ocean, Atlantic Ocean, Gulf of Mexico, and the Caribbean Sea?
300
What is the length in miles of the Amazon river?
What is 4000 miles long?
300
The country of _________ is bordered by Mexico, Guatemala, and the Gulf of Mexico.
What is Belize?
300
What is the climate that is generally dry with some rain, and can be found in such places as Mexico, Brazil, Uruguay, and Argentina?
What is Semiarid?
300
____________,_________, and ______ are the most urbanized countries in South America with 85% of the population living in cities.
What are Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay?
400
What are the Andes called in Mexico?
What are the Sierra Madres?
400
What are the three groups of islands in the Caribbean Sea called?
What are the Bahamas, the Greater Antilles, and the Lesser Antilles?
400
What is the smallest single country in Latin America?
What is the smallest single country in South America?
400
Mediterranean climates experience _____, ____ summers and ______, _____ winters, and can be found in Latin America along the coast of ________.
What is hot, dry, cool, moist, and Chile?
400
What are the six largest cities in South America?
What are Sao Paulo, Rio de Janierio, Buenos Aires, Lima, Bogotá, and Santiago?
500
What is the ancient civilization that was founded in the Andes and in what modern day country can it be found in?
What are the Incas of Peru?
500
What are the names of the four major islands that make up the Greater Antilles?
What are Puerto Rico, Cuba, Hispaniola, and Jamaica?
500
Aconcagua, the largest peak in the Western Hemisphere, is located in the Mendoza region of this country which is the second largest country in South America.
What is Argentina?
500
Identify the zone of climate, and then the type of climate characterized by a varied temperature, from moderate to cold, and found along the Andes Mountains.
What is the Mid-Latitude, Highlands?
500
Commercialization of culture is a negative of ______, but on the other hand it creates _______ and ______.