What is a pampas?
Flat grassland regions.
What are some of Middle America's major resources.
Some of Middle america's major resources are gold, copper and coal.
What three regions make up Latin America?
The three regions that make up Latin America are Mexico, South America and The Caribbean.
What is El nino?
El nino is a warming of the ocean water along the western coast of South America.
What does diversify mean?
To add variety.
What is a plateau?
A large area of mostly level land.
What are some of The Caribbean's major resources.
Some of the Caribbean's major resources are sugar cane, coffee and rich soil.
Where do most of Mexico's people live?
Most of Mexico's people live on the central plateau.
What is elevation?
Elevation is the height of land above sea level.
What is Hydroelectricity.
Hydroelectricity is electric power caused by rushing water.
What is an isthmus?
An isthmus is a strip of land with water on both sides that joins two larger bodies of land.
What are some of South america's major resources.
Some of South america's major resources are tin, copper and bauxite.
What two types of islands make up the Caribbean?
The types of islands that make up the Caribbean are corral and the skeletons of tiny sea animals.
Why do people who live in the mountains need to protect themselves against the cold.
They have to protect themselves against cold because the higher the colder.
What is a one resource economy?
A one resource economy is a countries economy base largely on one resource or crop.
What is an evergreen?
A dense evergreen forest that has abundant rainfall year round.
What is a one-resource economy?
A one resource economy is an economy that depends largely on one resource or crop.
How high up is the Andes mountain.
The Andes mountain rises up to higher than 20,000 feet.
Why hasn't the Atacama desert felt a single raindrop in hundreds of years?
The Atacama Desert hasn't felt a single raindrop in years because the Andes shields this parched region from rain.
Why do the El nino effects hurt some countries economy's.
The El nino effects hurt some countries economy because the warming of the ocean (El nino) causes the pants to die and the fish either move to somewhere else or they die.
What is a tributary?
A river or a stream that flows into a larger river.
What did El Salvador heavily rely on.
El Salvador used to heavily rely on it's coffee crop.
Where is lake Titicaca located?
Lake Titicaca lies 12,500 feet high in the Andes mountain.
What does El nino cause?
El nino causes areas that usually have dry weather get heavy rains, and low lying regions are flooded.
What resource did El Salvador heavily rely on.
El Salvador used to heavily rely on there coffee crop.