Latin America Geography

Physical Geographic Characteristics are....

• things made by nature

• things made by humans

• things made by animals

• things made by machines

What physical feature is pictured here?

• Amazon Rainforest

• Amazon River

• Panama Canal

• Caribbean Sea

What physical feature is highlighted on the map?

• Sierra Madre Mountains
• Atacama Desert
• Amazon River
• Panama Canal

Which of the following regions make up Latin America?

• Mexico, South America, Central America, and the Caribbean
• Canada, United States, and Mexico
• South America
• Portugal and Spain

What is a pampas?

• A large raised area of mostly level land.

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

• A flat grassland region.

• A dense evergreen forest that has abundant rainfall year-round.

Which physical feature is located in Chile and is one of the driest places on earth (it gets very little rainfall year-round)?

• Atacama Desert

• Sahara

• Gobi

• Namib

What are the 2 primary languages of Latin America?

• French and Spanish

• Spanish and English

• Portuguese and English

• Spanish and Portuguese

What river begins in the Andes and flows into the Atlantic Ocean?

• Nile River

• Vulga River

• Mississippi River

• Amazon River

Which country is landlocked?

• Brazil

• Peru

• Bolivia

• Chile

What countries border Equador

• Colombia and Peru

• Peru and Brazil

• Brazil and Colombia

• Pacific Ocean