Quiz: Physical Geo of Central America , Notes

What are the most distinctive landforms of Central America?

• mountains.

• flat lands

• navigable rivers

• panama canal

What attracted the earliest people to Central America?

• warm climates and no rainfall

• cooler climates and adequate rainfall

What makes contact between people difficult around this area?

• disease and heacy automobile traffic

• violence and poverty

• mountains, swampy coastal lands and dense rain forests

• lack of passports and legal visas

What is Lake Nicaragua known for?

• its large population of alligators

• Central America’s largest freshwater lake

• large amounts of humidity

• largest salt water content

Why is the Panama Canal important?

• ships use the canal to travel between the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean

• ships use the canal as a stopping station on its way to Europe.

• ships use the canal to travel between the Indian Ocean and the China Sea

• ships use the canal to travel through the Africa and Europe.

What is El Salvador's only navigable river?

• Amazon

• titicaca river

• lempa river

• Mississippi

What has increased international trade in the Central American region?

• timber

• oil and gas

• commerical drilling

• commercial fishing

What kind of climate dominates much of Central America?

• warm and dry climate

• rainy and dry climate

• tropical rain forest climate

• arid climate

What helps cool the warm, humid air and increase precipitation?

• downwind slopes

• few forests

• windward slopes

• tropical climate

Which area in Central America is the most densely populated?

• Tierra templada

• Tierra pacifica

• Tierra illusionada

• Tierra esplendida