Geography terms
Chains of Islands descibes what?
Archipelagoes
Latin America has more what the the rest of the world combined?
Pyramids
What is the climate of South America
Tropical
What is the main religion in South America
Roman Catholic
What countries are in NAFTA
US, Canada, Mexico
What is the Isthmus of Panama
Narrow strip of land that connects two continents and separates two oceans.
Colossal statue in Rio de Janeiro
Christ the Redeemer
Gauchos are/were what?
Nomadic horseman or cowhand
What are the languages are mainly spoken in South America?
Spanish and Portuguese
Largest Art Deco-style sculpture
Christ the Redeemer
The Pampas & Llanos are what?
grasslands
Ancient Incan city in the Andes Mountains
Machu Picchu
Name 3 important natural resources
Forestry, Water, Minerals, Fertile Soil
Name the 3 original civilizations
Mayas, Aztecs, and Incas
Style of Afro-American music that came from Africa during the 1800's
Calypso
High, flat plains where the andes are the widest: what does this descibe?
Altiplano
Itaipu Dam is what?
Largest Operational hydroelectric energy producer in the world (Located on the border between Brazil and Paraguay)
What is El Nino
Changing Ocean and air temperatures is the Pacific Ocean
What type of social structure did South America used to have?
Rigid
Steel drums are used to make what type of music?
Calypso
What is a Antacama?
Coastal desert
Along the east and west coast of Mexico is the what?
Sierra Madres Mountains
Why is there an abundance of rainforests in South America?
Massive Amazon basin receives constant moisture from the Atlantic Ocean
Who mainly settled South America?
Spanish
What genre of music came from the Caribbean in the late 1960's
Reggae