Unit 7- Latin American - LCNR

This mountain chain is in South America with elevations of up to 20,000 feet high. 

• Rockies
• Sierra Nevada
• Andes
• Appalachian

Most people in Mexico live in the ____________

• Appalachian mountain range
• Isthmus
• central plateau
• Rocky mountain range

Cuba’s location on the ocean helps with which industry

• Fishing and tourism
• a.  Farming and manufacturing
• a.  Tourism and farming

Carbon dioxide pollution causes what kind of health problems

• Cancer
• breathing
• cramping
•  spasms

 Mexico’s most profitable resource

• fish
• oil
• sugarcane
• silver

 The world gets about 20% of what resource from the Amazon Rainforest

• medicine
• oxygen
• rubber
• soybeans

 What physical feature makes Mexico’s air pollution problem worse?

• Andes Mountains
• Amazon River
• PAnama Canal
• Sierra Madre Mountains

 Mexico does not have an abundance of farmland because the climate is:

• too cold
• too wet
• too dry

The warm climate of Mexico is MOST helpful to which industry?

• fishing

• tourism

• manufacturing

• oil

Which natural resource is an important export for Brazil?

• cars
• shoes
• trucks
• iron ore