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Expain Latin America
Physical Pheatures
Natural Resources
Regions
Vocabulary
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FALSE. It is Mexico.
TRUE/FALSE: The Caribbean Islands in Latin America is closest to North America.
100
Close to the western coast of South America, near Chile, Bolivia, Peru, and Equador.
Where is the Andes Mt. Range located?
100
Chile.
Which of Latin America's countries is the leading producer of copper in the world.
100
Mexico and Central America, the Caribbean Islands, and South America.
What are the three regions of Latin America?
100
An isthmus is a narrow strip of land that has water on both sides.
What is an ISTHMUS?
200
It will bring in more money than just one product and if one product dropped in prices, they will still have the other product(s).
How can using diversity help a country even if it has never had the prices dropped in the market before?
200
the Amazon River.
What is the 2nd largest river in the world called?
200
True.
TRUE/FALSE: Oil is one of Latin America's most valuable resources.
200
FALSE. It is South America.
TRUE/FALSE: Mexico is the largest of the three regions.
200
A tributary is a river or stream that flows into a larger river.
What is a TRIBUTARY?
300
The countries would start losing money very quickly and what happened in North America during the Great Depression would happen throughout the world.
What would happen if all of the countries in the world would not diversify and would not buy each others' products?
300
the "Ocean River."
What is another name for the Amazon River?
300
Hydroelectric power, iron, copper, bauxite, gold, silver, coal, petroleum, uranium, tin, lead, and nickel.
Name all of the natural resources of Latin America.
300
South America.
What is In which of the three regions is Cuba found?
300
Hydroelectricity is a type of power that uses water to produce electricity.
What is HYDROELECTRICITY
400
Europeans from Spain and Portugal sailed to Latin America. Later European colonists came with their own traditions and languages. The languages, Spanish, Portuguese,and French, blended together to form the ancient language of LATIN.
How did Latin America get named?
400
A warm ocean current in the Pacific Ocean that runs along the western coast of South America.
What is El Nino and where is it located?
400
Nickel.
What does Latin America produce the least of?
400
the Bahamas, Cuba, Haiti, and Jamaica.
What sre the islands that are found in the Caribbeans called?
400
To diversify means to add variety to something.
What does it mean to DIVERSIFY?
500
Tropical Wet and Dry. (Tropical Wet is also very close.)
In Latin America, what climate do most people live in?
500
Between Mexico's Sierra Madre Mt.
Where in Mexico is Mexico's Central Plateau?
500
rich soil, sugar cane, coffee, bananas, cacao, citrus fruits, bauxite, nickel, and oil.
What are all of the natural resources in the Caribbeans?
500
In the Caribbean Islands.
Where is the Dominican Republic found in Latin America?
500
El Nino is a warm ocean current in the Pacific Ocean that flows along the western coast of South America.
What is El Nino?