SS6G3 Where People Live, Work, and Trade

What has been the major export for Cuba for the past two hundred years? 

• fish
• fruits 
• sugar
• coffee

 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

Most people in Mexico, Cuba, and Brazil live:

• in the mountains.

• on farms

• in urban areas

• in rural areas

Where do most Brazilians live in their country?

• in the interior
• along the Amazon River
• in the Amazon rain forest
• along the eastern, coastal area 

How does Brazil's location help it trade with other countries? 

• There are seven major seaports along the Atlantic coast
• The Amazon River allows for travel inland to the Andes
• Brazil borders nearly EVERY South American country 
• Brazil purchases goods it cannot make from other countries 

The large amount of arable land is MOST helpful in which industry in Cuba?

• fishing 
• tourism 
• farming
• manufacturing 

The Northern part of this country is mostly desert and very hot. The beaches on the Gulf of Mexico and Pacific Oceans have a tropical climate. The mountains in the interior of the country have a more mild climate

• Brazil

• Haiti

• Venezuela

• Mexico

This country has a tropical climate, but it is kept fairly mild because of the trade winds from the Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico.

• Brazil

• Bolivia

• Cuba

• Mexico

This large South American country has a mostly hot and tropical climate.

• Haiti

• Bolivia

• Mexico

• Brazil