Review Guide for Latin America Test
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1. List two archipelagoes that are found in Latin America.
2. What is the name of the mountain range that runs down the west coast of South America?
3. Describe the topography of Mexico.
4. What river flows along the border of Mexico and the United States?
5. What river is a major transportation route through the Amazon Rainforest?
6. What is the warmest vertical climate zones?
7. What factor that affects climate has the greatest impact on vertical zonation?
8. Most of Latin America is in the ______latitudes.
9. What is the most common climate zone in Central America?
10. What climate zone is found in the Andes Mountains?
11. What is the name of a grassland in Argentina?
12. What type of vegetation is found in a tropical wet climate zone?
13. Where is the Atacama Desert located in South America?
14. When it is summer in Newport News it is ______in Argentina.
15. List the countries in Latin America that are on the Ring of Fire.
16. What human made waterway connects the Atlantic and the Pacific?
17. What is the name of the tip of South America?
18. What island in the Caribbean Sea has two countries on it?
19. What method of farming is used in the rainforest?
20. What method of farming is used in mountainous areas?
21. What three countries in Latin America have large reserves of oil?
22. List the landlocked countries that are found in Latin America?
23. What is the major cash crop in the Caribbean?
24. List two countries that are major exporters of beef in Latin America.
25. List the major causes of deforestation in Latin America.
26. The most common type of farming in Latin America is ______.
27. What is the purpose of NAFTA?
28. What is the name of communally owned land in Latin America?
29. What country in Latin America has large deposits of copper?
30. Where did the Maya live in Latin America?
31. Mexico City was the capital of what native civilization?
32. What native civilization would be affected by vertical zonation?
33. What language do most people speak in Latin America?
34. What language do people speak in Brazil?
35. French Creole is spoken in what country in Latin America?
36. What European countries colonized most of Latin America?
37. Where do gauchos live in Latin America?
38. What is a shantytown or squatter settlement?
39. What are mestizos?
40. List three types of music that are found in Latin America.
41. Why are cities growing so rapidly in Latin America?