Latin America Geography Created by Educational Technology Network. www.edtechnetwork.com 2009

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Question 1 - 10 This is the hemisphere that all of South America is located.

Answer 1 – 10 What is the Western Hemisphere.

Question 1 - 20 Mexico and Central America are also called this.

Answer 1 – 20 What is Middle America?

Question 1 - 30 Two of the driest places on Earth are the Sonoran Desert and this desert.

Answer 1 – 30 What is the Atacama Desert?

Question 1 - 40 This river is the second longest in the world.

Answer 1 – 40 What is the Amazon River?

Question 1 - 50 These two oceans border South America.

Answer 1 – 50 What are the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans?

Question 2 - 10 This mountain range makes up the “spine” of South America.

Answer 2 – 10 What are the Andes Mountains?

Question 2 - 20 This is a narrow strip of land that has water on both sides that join two larger bodies of land.

Answer 2 – 20 What is an isthmus?

Question 2 - 30 The height of land above sea level is called this.

Answer 2 – 30 What is Elevation?

Question 2 - 40 Most of Mexico’s population lives here.

Answer 2 – 40 What is Mexico’s Central Plateau?

Question 2 - 50 Smaller streams that flow into a larger river are called this.

Answer 2 – 50 What are tributaries?

Question 3 - 10 The plains of Argentina and Uruguay are called this.

Answer 3 – 10 What is the Pampas?

Question 3 - 20 All the countries from Mexico to the tip of South America make up this.

Answer 3 – 20 What is Latin America?

Question 3 - 30 These two countries are found in the Caribbean Islands.

Answer 3 – 30 What are Cuba and Jamaica? (and others)

Question 3 - 40 This kind of economy is bad for a nation.

Answer 3 – 40 What is a one-resource economy?

Question 3 - 50 Name 3 natural reources.

Answer 3 – 50 Answers will vary.

Question 4 - 10 Crops are an important part of this for many Caribbean countries.

Answer 4 – 10 What is Economy?

Question 4 - 20 TRUE/FALSE-Latin America’s resources are as varied as it’s physical features.

Answer 4 – 20 True

Question 4 - 30 A country with THIS relies heavily on one crop or one industry.

Answer 4 – 30 What is a one resource economy?

Question 4 - 40 One use of a river is to provide power to people, this is called ________.

Answer 4 – 40 What is Hydroelectricity?

Question 4 - 50 TRUE/FALSE Mexico is rich in minerals.

Answer 4 – 50 True

Question 5 - 10 This is needed at higher elevations for crops to grow successfully.

Answer 5 – 10 What is heat?

Question 5 - 20 This warms the Pacific ocean.

Answer 5 – 20 What is El Nino?

Question 5 - 30 Coral is formed from this.

Answer 5 – 30 What is the skeletons of tiny sea animals?

Question 5 - 40 When an economy is THIS, they rely on more then one way to make money.

Answer 5 – 40 What is diversified?

Question 5 - 50 Types of crops are grown by farmers in the Andes Mountains are influenced by this.

Answer 5 – 50 What is elevation?