World Geography T. Corbett 8th Grade

Emma Aaron's

Latin America spans more than _________ latitude

85

The land area of Latin America covers about_____________ million square miles

8

Latin america makes up ________ % of the earth’s lithosphere

16

Most of Latin america shares a heritage of settlement by _______ especially those from Spain & ________-

Europeans / Portugal

Latin America is made up of ________ and ________ as well as the Caribbean islands and south america

Mexico / Central america

Latin America is located in the______ Hemisphere

Western

Approx. ___ million people live in Latin America.

660

This figure is equal to approx. _____ % of the world’s population

8.4

Latin America gets its name from the _______ language which was the language spoken by the ______ Empire

Latin / Roman

Which 2 languages are spoken in Latin America today

Spanish / Portuguse

Geographers divide Latin America into three areas________ America the Caribbean and south america

Middle

The Caribbean Islands are also know as the _______ indies

West

________ America is the stretch of land that connects North and South America

Middle

Middle America is made up of ________ and the seven countries of Central America

Mexico

The Caribbean islands fall into these groups. The _________, the greater Antilles and the lesser_____ Antilles

Bahamas / Antilles

The continent of ________ America is by far the largest land area of Latin America

Aouth

Latin America is about ______ times the size of the continental united states

3

________ is by far the largest country in south America, by both land area and population

Brazil

One of Latin America;s most distinctive land forms is its towering _________

Mountains

The mountain range of Latin America begins as the ______ mountains located in North America

Rocky

The mountain ranges extends all the way to the southern tip of ______ America

Southern

the names of the mountains range change as you move south from the United States in Mexico the mountains are know as the ___________ __________

Sierra madre

The mountain range in central America is called the _______

Central Highlands

In South america the mountain range is called the ________

Andes

Lain America has a rugged a landscape that is cause by the Pacific rim ring of _____

fire

This is due to the movement of the earth’s tectonic _______ that have been colliding for billions of years

Plates

These collisions still active today have formed mountains and ________ also causing tremendous _______

Volcanoes / Earthquakes

Humans have been attracted by the mountains and the rich natural ______ these areas have to offer

Resources

Despite the collision and the rugged landscapes the mountains and _________ of Latin America have been places of human settlement for thousands of years

Plateaus

some of which include abundant water fertile volcanic _______ timber and minerals

soil

Father south are the central ________ which is a chain of volcanic mountains run like a backbone across Central America

Highlands

Many Caribbeans islands are also part of this mountain range because it extends across the _______ of the Caribbean sea

Floor

These islands are actually volcanic ______ that rise asl.

Peaks

Some of the volcanoes Are still active / are not still active today which can make living on these islands dangerous

Are still active

the Andes the mountain range in south America stretch for ________ miles

4,500

The Andes are the world’s_______ mountain range

longest

Th Andes the mountain range reach________ fest ASL

20,000

The Andes have several parallel ranges that run deep like folds in a carpet and are called _________

cordilleras

in Peru and bolivia the Andes encircle a region called the __________ which means high plains

Altipano

in southern Argentina / Chile hills and lower flatlands form the platueau of ______-

Patagonia

Eastern south America is marked by wide plateaus and valleys the ___________-__— plateau spreads over much of Brazil and bolivia moving westward towards peru

Mato Grousso

East of the Mato Grousso lies the __________- Highlands which is a plateau large that it psns over serval climate and vegetation zones.

Brazilian

a steep cliff or slope that runs off the eastern edge of the highlands of Brazil and lunges sharply in to the Atlantic Ocean is called and ___________

Escarpement

the ____________ plateau is a densely populated area which cover much of Central America

Mexican

In the plateau’s southern region the favorable climate fertile volcanic soil and adequate rainfall have attracted human settlement for Hundreds / thousands of years.

Thousands

Inland areas of south America hold vast grasslands the _________ in Colombia and Venezuela and __________ in Argentina and Uruguay

Llaneros / gauchos

Ranchers on large estates employ cowhands called_______ in Colombia and venezuela and ________ in Argentina and urguay

Llaneros // Gauchous

Know for it fertile soil the Llanos / pampas region is one of the worlds __________ producing and abundance of wheat and ______—

pampas '/ Bread basketing / corn

Latin Americas many waterways serve as ________ that transport people and ________ to different parts of the region and the world

Arteries / goods

The _________ is a major river that forms part of the border between Mexico and the US

Rio Grande

The Rio grande is also called the _________ which means wild river of the north

Rio bravo del Norte

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