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Landforms
Renewable Resources
Non-Renewable Resources
Environmental Concerns
Geologic Processes
100
An area of land surrounded on all sides by water
What is an island?
100
Most frequently used to build things, the Lorax spoke for these
What are trees?
100
Bolivia may never win 2nd in the Olympics, but it has more of this than anywhere in Latin America
What is silver?
100
I can hardly breathe! The new factories of Latin America are doing too much of this!
What is pollution?
100
Western Latin America belongs to the “Ring of Fire”, a region that features many of these.
What is volcanoes?
200
A luxuriant dense forest found typically in tropical areas with consistently heavy rainfall
What is a rainforest?
200
Most of South America receives plenty of this resource due to it’s location near the Equator
What is rain?
200
Before steel is steel, it is this resource—found in much of Latin America
What is iron ore?
200
In the Caribbean, the degradation of these ecosystems threatens the livelihood of many who depend on their tenants.
What are coral reefs?
200
A threat to many areas of Latin America, a particularly devastating one of these struck Haiti in 2010
What are earthquakes?
300
The largest river in the world in terms of water carried, and 2nd longest
What is the Amazon?
300
Latin American countries are major exporters of this fruit that made Chiquita famous
What is bananas?
300
Some Latin American countries, such as Argentina, possess this resource that could really explode if there was ever WWIII
What is uranium?
300
Once a factory is built or a city expands, countries lose some of this
What is arable land?
300
The Amazon River Basin is prone to periods of time when this is prominent
What is flooding?
400
The predominant mountain range in Latin America
What are the Andes?
400
Latin American countries can thank their island location for this resource that there is always more of
What is fish? Or "fish in the sea"
400
Hidden under the Atacama Desert are vast reserves of this increasingly valuable “goldish” metal
What is copper?
400
Not only does this disturb the production of oxygen, but it displaces some really cool animals.
What is deforestation?
400
Wind and water are the primary causes of this process that displaces soil
What is erosion?
500
The extensive, treeless plains of South America
What are the Pampas?
500
Growing well in humid climates, this resource sweetens the life of many Caribbean laborers
What is sugar(cane)?
500
Found in Venezuela’s Lake Maricaibo in the 1970s, this resource is critical to Venezuela’s national wealth
What is oil?
500
In areas surrounding the copper and silver mines, this can cause health problems for the locals.
What is the leakage of chemicals?
500
Subduction is a process that occurs due to the collision of these in the Caribbean.
What are tectonic plates?