Latin America Review

I am a manmade waterway that allows boats to travel a short distance from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific

• Amazon River

• Sierra Madre Mountains

• Lake Maracaibo

• Panama Canal

I am the longest mountain chain in the world extending from Venezuela to Argentina

• Sierra Madres
• Andes
• Pyrenees
• Urals

I share my island with another country, the Dominican Republic

• Cuba
• Haiti
• St. Thomas
• Colombia

My country includes most of the Amazon River and Rainforest

• Colombia
• Venezuela
• Mexico
• Brazil

I am a country in South America that depends on oil as a major source of income $ and I am next to Colombia.

• Colombia
• Venezuela
• Brazil
• Panama

I am a body of water that has warm beaches and many small islands for vacationers to enjoy.

• Gulf of Mexico
• Pacific Ocean
• Caribbean Sea
• Amazon River

The 3 regions that make up Latin America are

• North America, Mexico, and Europe
• Central America, South America, and Caribbean
• Europe, Australia, North America
• Europe, Asia, Africa

What data can you use to calculate standard of living?

• literacy rate
• poverty rate
• GDP per capita
• all of the above

Brazil was colonized by Portugal, therefore they speak ___________________.

• Spanish
• Dutch
• Portuguese
• French

Which peninsula is in the southeastern part of Mexico? 

• Caribbean peninsula
• Baja peninsula
• Yucatan peninsula 
• Pacific peninsula