Rivers
The 2nd to longest river in the world
What is the Amazon River?
The United States Mountain range included in the Andes
What are the Rocky Mountains?
The number of different bird species found in the Amazon rainforest.
What is 1,300?
The action of clearing a wide area of trees (greatly affects the Amazon Rainforest)
What is deforestation?
The number of Central American countries in Latin America
What is 7?
The 2nd to longest river in the United States
What is the Mississippi River?
The primary mountain range of Latin America.
What are the Andes Mountains?
The number of trees found in the Amazon rainforest
What is over 40 billion?
A river or stream flowing into a larger river, lake, or body of water
What are tributaries?
The number of indigenous people that live in the Amazon rainforest
What is over 2 million?
The longest river in the world
What is the Nile?
The Mexican Mountain range included in the Andes
What is the Sierra Madre?
The Amazon rainforest is two times the size of this country
What is India?
The uncontrolled expansion of urban areas
What is urban sprawl?
The percentage of the world's oxygen that is produced by the "lungs of the planet"
What is 20%?
The longest river in the United States
What is the Missouri River?
The peak of this mountain is the highest point in North America
What is Mt. Mckinley?
South America is a world leader in these two things
What are mining and exporting raw materials?
A wide, lower course of river where currents meet tides
What is an estuary?
Latin America stretches between these two places
What is the U.S.-Mexican border to Tierra Del Fuego?
This river becomes an estuary called "Rio de la Plata"
What is the Parana River?
Huge mountain range that spans from Newfoundland in Canada to Alabama in the U.S.
What are the Appalachian Mountains?
The 4 major islands of the Greater Antilles
What are Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola, and Puerto Rico?
A community's basic facilities, services, and machinery
What is infrastructure?
The name for the Greater Antilles, Lesser Antilles, and Bahamas when mentioned together
What are the West Indies?