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LA Geography Test St
Latin America Geography
Question | Answer |
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What mountain range is located in Mexico and central America? | Sierra Madre |
What body of water is located north of South America? | Caribbean Sea |
What ocean is west of Latin America? | Pacific |
What arid physical feature is located in Chile west of the Andes mountains? | Atacama Desert |
What country is northwest of Cuba and borders the USA? | Mexico |
What large South American country borders the Atlantic Ocean and ten other countries in Latin America including Colombia? | Brazil |
How does geography impact Mexico City's air pollution problem? | The Sierra Madre trap pollution |
Where do most Brazilians live? | On the southeastern coast |
Large amounts of arable land are most helpful to what industry? | farming |
What might be lost if the rainforest is destroyed? | plant-based medicines, animal habitat, and oxygen |
What is a main source of income for both Cuba and Mexico? | Tourism |
What is the name of the man-made waterway that connects the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans? | Panama Canal |
What ocean is to the east of Latin America? | Atlantic |
What is the name of the waterway that is east of Mexico, but west of Florida? | Gulf of Mexico |
What are three ways Mexico City is trying to fix its pollution problem? | Roof top gardens, public transportation, using bicycles, using cleaner burning fuels |
What are three causes of deforestation in the Amazon? | timber, create farmland and ranches |
What is the environmental issue in Brazil? | deforestation |
What environmental issue is in Mexico? | air pollution |
What impacts Cuba ability to trade? | It has lots of coasts, but only one main cash crop, and it is communist, so countries refuse to trade with it. |
How does Mexico's location impact its ability to trade? | It has coasts on both oceans and borders the US making it easy to trade |
How might laws protecting the rain forest impact farmers in Brazil? | They will lose money because they have to clear cut the rain forest to create arable land |
What is arable land? | land for farming |
What is agriculture? | farming |
What does arid mean? | dry |