Latin America Geography
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| What mountain range is located in Mexico and central America? | Sierra Madre
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| What body of water is located north of South America? | Caribbean Sea
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| What ocean is west of Latin America? | Pacific
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| What arid physical feature is located in Chile west of the Andes mountains? | Atacama Desert
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| What country is northwest of Cuba and borders the USA? | Mexico
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| What large South American country borders the Atlantic Ocean and ten other countries in Latin America including Colombia? | Brazil
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| How does geography impact Mexico City's air pollution problem? | The Sierra Madre trap pollution
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| Where do most Brazilians live? | On the southeastern coast
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| Large amounts of arable land are most helpful to what industry? | farming
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| What might be lost if the rainforest is destroyed? | plant-based medicines, animal habitat, and oxygen
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| What is a main source of income for both Cuba and Mexico? | Tourism
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| What is the name of the man-made waterway that connects the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans? | Panama Canal
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| What ocean is to the east of Latin America? | Atlantic
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| What is the name of the waterway that is east of Mexico, but west of Florida? | Gulf of Mexico
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| What are three ways Mexico City is trying to fix its pollution problem? | Roof top gardens, public transportation, using bicycles, using cleaner burning fuels
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| What are three causes of deforestation in the Amazon? | timber, create farmland and ranches
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| What is the environmental issue in Brazil? | deforestation
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| What environmental issue is in Mexico? | air pollution
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| 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.
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| 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
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| 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
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| What is arable land? | land for farming
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| What is agriculture? | farming
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| What does arid mean? | dry
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