Chapter 8 Test

Question 1

What is the land area of Latin America?

Answer 1

8 million square miles

Question 2

What percentage of the Earth’s surface is covered by Latin America?

Answer 2

16% of Earth’s land surface is covered

Question 3

What are the three groups of the Caribbean Islands?

Answer 3

Bahamas, Greater Antilles, Lesser Antilles

Question 4

What do the Sierra Madre Occidental and Oriental form when they meet?

Answer 4

The Sierra Madre del Sur

Question 5

What are cordilleras?

Answer 5

Mountain ranges that run parallel

Question 6

Where is Patagonia?

Answer 6

In southern Argentina

Question 7

Where are the world’s finest emeralds found?

Answer 7

Colombia

Question 8

What is the largest lake in Central America?

Answer 8

Mexico and Venezuela

Question 9

What is the largest lake in Central America?

Answer 9

Lake Nicaragua

Question 10

Which country is the world’s leading exporter of copper?

Answer 10

Chile

Question 11

What is a canopy?

Answer 11

The top layer of a rainforest

Question 12

What is unique about the animal life in the rain forest?

Answer 12

It has more species of plants and animals per square mile than anywhere else.

Question 13

What affects the climates of Latin America the most?

Answer 13

Elevation

Question 14

What is unique about the Atacama Desert?

Answer 14

No rainfall has been recorded

Question 15

What are the Spanish words for “cold land”? Which crops grow well here?

Answer 15

Tierra friá; potatoes and barley

Question 16

What are the Spanish words for “hot land”? Which crops grow well here?

Answer 16

Tierra caliente; bananas, sugar rice, and cacao

Question 17

What are the Spanish words for “temperate land”? Which crops grow well here?

Answer 17

Tierra templada; coffee and corn

Question 18

List the names of the mountains in Mexico, Central America, and South America.

Answer 18

Sierra Madre; Central Highlands; Andes