Chapter 8 Test

Question 1

What is the land area of Latin America? What percentage of earth’s surface is covered ?

Answer 1

8 million square miles and 16%

Question 2

What are the three groups of the Caribbean islands?

Answer 2

The Bahamas, greater Antilles, lesser Antilles

Question 3

What does the Sierra Madre occidental/oriental form when the meet?

Answer 3

Sharp peaked Sierra Madre del sur

Question 4

What are cordilleras?

Answer 4

Parallel angles of mountain ranges

Question 5

Where is Patagonia?

Answer 5

Argentina

Question 6

Where is the worlds finest emeralds found?

Answer 6

Columbia

Question 7

Which two Latin America countries are leading oil producers?

Answer 7

Mexico and Venezuela

Question 8

What is the largest lake in Central America?

Answer 8

Lake Nicaragua

Question 9

What country leads in exporting copper?

Answer 9

Chili

Question 10

What is canopy?

Answer 10

Continuous layers of leaves at the top of the Forrest

Question 11

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

Answer 11

Sierra Madre,Andes, central highlands

Question 12

What is unique about animal life in the rain forest?

Answer 12

Holds more animals in it than any other place in the world per square mile

Question 13

What effects the climate of Latin America the most?

Answer 13

Elevation

Question 14

What is unique about the Atacama desert?

Answer 14

No rain fall has ever been recorded

Question 15

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

Answer 15

Teirra fria, potatoes and barley

Question 16

What is the Spanish translation for “hot land” and what crops grow well here?

Answer 16

Terria calienta

Bananas, sugar, rice cocoa

Question 17

What is the translation for “temperate land?” What crops grow well here?

Answer 17

Tierra Templada

Coffee, corn