Latin America Physical Geography Ch. 1

What makes up Middle America?

• The Caribbean and Panama

• Mexico and Central America

• Central America and South America

• Only South America

A large raised area of mostly level land

• island

• isthmus

• plateau

• tributary

A strip of land with water on both sides that joins two larger bodies of land

• isthmus

• plateau

• peninsula

• island

Flat grasslands in South America

• Great Basin

• Great Plains

• pampas

• McDonalds

A dense evergreen forest that has abundant rainfall year-round

• Amazon River

• tributary

• plateau

• rain forest

A long river in northern South America

• Nile River

• Mississippi River

• Amazon River

• Chagres River

A river or stream that flows into a larger river

• tributary

• Glacier

• Plateau

• pampas

A warming of the ocean water along the western coast of South America

• El Niño

• La Vaca

• Heat wave

• Thermal winds

the height of land above sea level

• Mountain

• Valleys

• elevation

• Rocks

The ways goods and services are produced and made available to people

• economy

• education

• sports

• hobbies