Vocabulary
A long river in Northern South America
What is the Amazon River
To add variety
What is diversifying?
Two ways Caribbean islands are formed
What are skeletons of tiny sea animals and underwater mountains?
The main way crops are effected in the Andes Mountains
What is elevation?
How hydro-electricity is created
What are huge dams and rushing water?
The distance from sea level
What is elevation?
A rainy area filled with evergreen trees
What is a rain forest?
Northwest of the Caribbean Islands
Where is the U.S. compared to the Caribbean?
Losses in crops and agriculture
What are the effects of El nino?
The 3 regions of Latin America
What are middle America, South America and the Caribbean?
A large elevated area of land
What is a plateau?
Electricity from flowing water
What is hydroelectricity?
The Caribbean's climate
What is tropical wet and dry?
Economy found in the environment
What are natural resources?
The driest places on Earth
What are the Atacama Desert and the Sonoran Desert
A nation that gets most of their money from a single resource
What is a one-resource economy
The way a nation/country/region makes their money
What is an economy?
An island that is rich in oil
What is Cuba?
A key crop of Brazil and Colombia
What is coffee?
Dominating landforms
What are mountain ranges?
A stream or small river that flows into a large river
What is a tributary?
Flat African grasslands
What are pampas?
Two things are grown in the Caribbean
What are bananas and sugarcane?
3 crops of Central America
What are coffee beans, cacao trees and sugar cane?
5 natural resources of Latin America
What are fish, coffee, silver, trees and oil?