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Latin America Geography
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Geography Landforms Other Resources Rando 10 20 30 40 50
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Question This is the hemisphere that all of South America is located.
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Answer 1 – 10 What is the Western Hemisphere.
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Question Mexico and Central America are also called this.
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Answer 1 – 20 What is Middle America?
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Question Two of the driest places on Earth are the Sonoran Desert and this desert.
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Answer 1 – 30 What is the Atacama Desert?
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Question This river is the second longest in the world.
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Answer 1 – 40 What is the Amazon River?
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Question These two oceans border South America.
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Answer 1 – 50 What are the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans?
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Question This mountain range makes up the “spine” of South America.
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Answer 2 – 10 What are the Andes Mountains?
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Question This is a narrow strip of land that has water on both sides that join two larger bodies of land.
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Answer 2 – 20 What is an isthmus?
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Question The height of land above sea level is called this.
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Answer 2 – 30 What is Elevation?
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Question Most of Mexico’s population lives here.
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Answer 2 – 40 What is Mexico’s Central Plateau?
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Question Smaller streams that flow into a larger river are called this.
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Answer 2 – 50 What are tributaries?
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Question The plains of Argentina and Uruguay are called this.
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Answer 3 – 10 What is the Pampas?
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Question All the countries from Mexico to the tip of South America make up this.
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Answer 3 – 20 What is Latin America?
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Question These two countries are found in the Caribbean Islands.
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Answer 3 – 30 What are Cuba and Jamaica? (and others)
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Question This kind of economy is bad for a nation.
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Answer 3 – 40 What is a one-resource economy?
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Question Name 3 natural reources.
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Answer 3 – 50 Answers will vary.
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Question Crops are an important part of this for many Caribbean countries.
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Answer 4 – 10 What is Economy?
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Question TRUE/FALSE-Latin America’s resources are as varied as it’s physical features.
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Answer 4 – 20 True
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Question A country with THIS relies heavily on one crop or one industry.
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Answer 4 – 30 What is a one resource economy?
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Question One use of a river is to provide power to people, this is called ________.
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Answer 4 – 40 What is Hydroelectricity?
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Question TRUE/FALSE Mexico is rich in minerals.
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Answer 4 – 50 True
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Question This is needed at higher elevations for crops to grow successfully.
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Answer 5 – 10 What is heat?
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Question This warms the Pacific ocean.
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Answer 5 – 20 What is El Nino?
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Question Coral is formed from this.
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Answer 5 – 30 What is the skeletons of tiny sea animals?
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Question When an economy is THIS, they rely on more then one way to make money.
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Answer 5 – 40 What is diversified?
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Question Types of crops are grown by farmers in the Andes Mountains are influenced by this.
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Answer 5 – 50 What is elevation?
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