Chapter7

Question 0

Narrow stretch of land connecting to larger land areas

Answer 0

Isthmus

Question 1

Smaller area of our region

Answer 1

Sub region

Question 2

Group of islands

Answer 2

Archipelago

Question 3

Steep cliffs at the edge of a plateau with a low land area below

Answer 3

Escarpment

Question 4

Tropical grasslands that stretch through eastern Columbia and Venezuela

Answer 4

Llanos

Question 5

Treeless grasslands of Argentina and uraguay

Answer 5

Pampas

Question 6

Small river that flows into a larger river

Answer 6

Tributary

Question 7

An area where river currents and ocean tides reach

Answer 7

Estuary

Question 8

Human made fuel protected from mixing gasoline and alcohol made from sugarcane

Answer 8

Gasohol

Question 9

An area between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn which has a generally warm temperatures because it receives direct rays from the sun for much of the

Answer 9

Tropics

Question 10

Dense stand of trees other growth that receives high amount of precipitation each year

Answer 10

Rain forest

Question 11

Umbrella light covering formed by the tops of trees in a rain forest

Answer 11

Canopy

Question 12

Height above sea level

Answer 12

Altitude

Question 13

What physical features make transportation in middle America difficult

Answer 13

Thick forest mountain deserts coastal marshes

Question 14

How have volcanoes helped and hurt the Caribbean

Answer 14

Helped
They made the islands and fertile soil
Hurt
Burned homes destroyed crops

Question 15

Name three subregions of Latin America

Answer 15

Middle America the Caribbean South America

Question 16

Which Latin American country has the greatest resources? What are they?

Answer 16

Brazil. Iron oil call timber rubber gold iron or Margaret and natural gas

Question 17

What is the significance of Amazon River

Answer 17

Transportation, fertile soil fish longest river

Question 18

Paraguay Parada your voice system what is the significance of these places

Answer 18

Drains the eastern half of South America

Question 19

What is the significance in the or in the Orinoco River

Answer 19

Fertile soil

Question 20

How do Caribbean countries benefit economically from their environment?

Answer 20

Have use the warm climate and pretty beaches to attract a large tourist industry

Question 21

List the effects that El Nino

Answer 21

Changes in air pressure and rainfall that begins in the Pacific Ocean severe flooding along cruise coast or along very dry seasons in northern Brazil