Chapter 8 Sect. 1&2

Question 1

What is the land area of Latin America? & what percentage of earth surface is covered ?

Answer 1

8m sq miles , 16%

Question 2

What are 3 groups if the Caribbean islands

Answer 2

Bahamas , greater Antilles, Lesser Antilles

Question 3

What does the Sierra madre occidental/oriental form when they meet

Answer 3

Sierra madre del sur

Question 4

What are cordilleras ?

Answer 4

Parallel chains of mountains

Question 5

Where is Patagonia

Answer 5

Argentia

Question 6

Where is worlds finest emeralds found

Answer 6

Columbia

Question 7

Which two Latin American countries are leading oil producers

Answer 7

Mexico & Venezuela

Question 8

What is largest lain Central America

Answer 8

Lake Nicaragua

Question 9

Which country is the worlds leading exporter of copper

Answer 9

Chile

Question 10

What is a canopy

Answer 10

Top layer of rain forest, where the tops of all trees form a continuous layer of leaves

Question 11

What is unique about the animal life in the rain forest

Answer 11

More species per square mile here than anywhere else on earth, home to many reptiles

Question 12

What affects the climates of Latin America the most ?

Answer 12

The elevation of the land instead of the distance from the equator

Question 13

What is unique about the Atacama Desert ?

Answer 13

In some places rainfall has never been recorded

Question 14

What is the Spanish translation for “cold land” ? What crops grow well there ?

Answer 14

Tierra Fria , potatoes & barley

Question 15

What is the Spanish translation for “hot land” ? What crops grow well there ?

Answer 15

Tierra caliente , bananas , sugar , rice & caco

Question 16

Spanish translation for “temperate land” ? What crops grow well there

Answer 16

Tierra Templada , corn & coffee

Question 17

List the names of mountains in Mexico, Central America & South America

Answer 17

Sierra madre, central highlands, Andes