Vocabulary
A smaller area of a region.
What is a subregion?
Weather event marked by very heavy rains in South America that causes flooding.
What is El Niño?
What are Pampas?
This South America's largest lake.
What is Lake Maracaibo?
These are the negative affects of volcanoes in Middle America.
What are they can hurt the people of Middle America and can cause destruction of land and homes?
What is an archipelago?
Movement of people, plants, animals, and germs in either direction across the Atlantic Ocean.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
Volcanoes, Plateaus, Mountains
What are landforms found in Middle America?
This is the highest lake in the world.
This is a positive affect of the Columbian Exchange.
What is the exchange allowed for people of Europe and the Americas to get new items?
Human-made fuel from mixing gasoline and alcohol from sugarcane.
What is gasohol?
The process of clearing forests.
What is deforestation?
This was built so ships could travel through the country instead of around South America.
What is the Panama Canal?
These are natural resources found in Latin America.
What are minerals, forests, land, and water?
These are negative affects of the Columbian Exchange.
What are Europeans brought over a lot of diseases to the new world killing many native people?
a narrow stretch of land with water on both sides
What is an isthmus?
A human-built waterway.
What is a Canal?
These are the reasons it was difficult to build the Panama Canal.
These continents were affected by the "seeds of change."
What are Europe and the Americas?
This is where Lake Maracaibo is located.
What is Venezuela?
the height of something above ground or sea level.
What is Altitude?
A dense area of trees and plants that receives a lot of rain.
What is a rainforest?
This is the largest river system in South America.
What is the Amazon River?
These are ways volcanoes help the people of Middle America.
What are the deposits of Ash and Lava make the soil fertile and good for farming?
This is where Lake Titicaca is located.
What is the border of Peru and Bolivia?