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Climate and Vegetation
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What 2 parts of Latin America look like a kite with a long tail?
What is Mexico and Centeral America
100
Where in Mexico is the climate tropical wet and dry?
What is near the coast
100
What are the 2 most widespread economic activities?
What is livestock raising and subsistence farming
100
What group created civilization in Mexico and Centeral America?
What is the Maya
100
From 1950 to 2008 did the population of Latin America double, triple, or quadruple?
What is triple
200
Is South America shaped like a triangle, square, or circle?
What is a triangle
200
In Mexico and Centeral America what kind of vegetation covers the North?
What is desert scrubs
200
When subsistent farmers they can either sell or what with their extra food?
What is barter
200
In 1492 who landed in the Caribbean
What is Christoper Columbus
200
More than half of Latin America lives on what?
What is farms
300
What 2 great mountain ranges run through Mexico?
What is the Sierra Madre Occidental and the Sierra Madre Oriental
300
The Caribbean Islands how what 2 kinds of vegetations?
What is tropical grasslands and broadleaf evergreens
300
What 3 crops do subsistent farmer grow?
What is corn, potatoes, and beans
300
What 3 things did the Europeans bring over to the Caribbean?
What is animals, plants, and diseases
300
Most Latin Americans are what religion?
What is Christian
400
From the tip of Florida to the north coast of South America how many islands are there?
What is 7,000
400
What kinds of trees live in the Amazon rainforest? Name at least 2
What is Mahogany, Rosewood, Brazil nut, and Rubber trees
400
What did the Europeans want from Latin America?
What is its mineral wealth
400
Some Latin Americans still follow what?
What is indigenous religions
500
Which basin covers South America?
What is the Amazon basin
500
What does Mexico call tropical areas?
What is Tierra Caliente
500
Which 3 parts of Latin America grow coffee beans?
What is Brazil, Columbia, and Centeral America
500
What 2 empires did Spain take over?
What is the Aztec and Inka
500
What population is Christianity in Latin America?
What is 92.5%