Unit #3: Latin America
Instructions: Use your World Geography Textbook to complete this assignment. Please answer the following questions in Part 1 with the 3 other people in the group that your teacher assigns you to.
PART 1: What do we know about Latin America?
1. Look at the photo on page 190. What did you notice? Discuss at your table. Be ready to share your answer with the class.
2. Now look at the picture again and think about the following questions. Discuss at your table. Be ready to share your answer with the class.
(1) What can you learn about her or her surroundings from her clothing?
(2) What do her surroundings and belongings tell you about her life?
(3) Where do you think she is going or what do you think she is doing?
(4) What does this picture tell you about what climate type she might live in?
3. What connections can you make to new vocabulary? Connect the terms in the bubbles (that you have already learned) with the terms in the box that you are about to learn. Make connections to words you know relate to one another. How do they relate? Be ready to explain this to the class.
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LATIN AMERICA – PHYSICAL MAP
Instructions: (1) READ each question carefully. (2) Use an atlas to help you ANSWER (1pt each) the questions in the blanks below. (3) THEN LOCATE and LABEL (1pt each) each location on your physical map.
1. What is the name of the ocean west of South America?2. What is the name of the ocean east of South America?
3. What body of water is the island of Cuba located in?
4. What is the name of the gulf to the east of Mexico?
5. What is the largest lake in South America?
6. What is the name of the lake situated high in the Andes mountains that forms part of the border between Peru and Bolivia?
7. What mountain range runs through the western portion of the continent of South America?
8. What is the name of the river that forms a natural border between the United States and Mexico?
9. What is the longest river in South America?
10. Which is the largest peninsula in Mexico?
11. What is the name of the large desert in northern Chile?
12. What small group of islands lie off the coast of Ecuador?
13. What is the name of the most southerly cape in South America?
14. What is the longest and skinniest peninsula in Mexico?
15. What is the name of the large area of land with low elevation that is a grassland in Argentina?
16. What is the name of the large area of rocky land that is covering all of southernmost Chile and Argentina? (Hint: It is a famous place for climbers and hikers to travel to and there is a clothing line named after it.)
17. What is the name of the highest mountain peak in all of South America? (Hint: It is located in Argentina/Chile in the Andes Mountains and is 22,831 ft. above sea level.)
18. What is the name of the largest rainforest in the Western Hemisphere?
LATIN AMERICA – POLITICAL MAP
Instructions: (1) READ each question carefully. (2) Use an atlas to help you ANSWER (1pt each) the questions. Write the correct answer on the line next to each question. (3) THEN LOCATE and LABEL (1pt each) each location on your political map.
1. What is the only country in Latin America that shares a border with the United States?2. What country in Central America lies farthest to the west?
3. What country in Latin America does not have a port on the Pacific coast?
4. What country in Central America begins with the letter “H”?
5. What is the only country in Central America that does not have a Caribbean port?
6. What country in Central America has two large lakes?
7. Ten degrees north latitude runs through which Central American country?
8. What country in Central America is a thin isthmus?
9. What is the largest island country in the Caribbean?
10. One island in the Caribbean Sea is divided into two countries. What is the country that occupies the western portion of the island?
11. One island in the Caribbean Sea is divided into two countries. What is the country that occupies the eastern portion of the island?
12. What country in the Caribbean Sea is an archipelago consisting of over 700 islands and is directly east of Florida?
13. What rectangular-shaped island’s name means “Rich Port” in Spanish?
14. Kingston is the capital of this island nation in the Caribbean Sea.
15. Which island country near South America consists of two islands? Both islands’ names begin with the letter “T”.
16. Which country in South America has both a Pacific and Caribbean port?
17. What South American country has the longest Caribbean coastline?
18. What French territory in South America contains the city of Cayenne?
19. The Andes Mountains run through many South American countries; which of these is the smallest?
20. Which country in South America has two capital cities?
21. Which nation in South America has the longest Pacific coastline?
22. Which South American nation was home to the ancient Incan civilization?