Latin American Geography

this is a body of water off the eastern coast of Mexico bordered by the United States to the north and Cuba to the south

• gulf shores

• Caribbean sea

• gulf of Mexico

• Mediterranean Sea

a mountain system in Mexico that contains some of the highest mountains and volcanoes in Latin America

• The Andes Mountains

• The Sierra Madre Mountains

• The Appalachian Mountains

• The Atacama Mountains

a canal across the isthmus of Panama in Central America that was man-made. It took 33 years to create and labor of men from two different countries. It created a shortcut between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans

• The Suez Canal

• The Egyptian Canal

• The Panama Canal

• The Bering Strait

a sea that surrounds the islands of the West Indies. This is a huge attraction for tourists - noted for its tropical climate and beautiful waters.

• The Great Sea

• The Caribbean Sea

• The Red Sea

• The Mediterranean Sea

a mountain range that is 4,500 miles long that runs down the west coast of South America. This is the 2nd longest mountain range in the world!

• The Andes Mountains

• The Sierra Madre Mountains

• The Cuzco Mountains

• The Brazilian Mountains

one of the driest places on Earth located in Chile between the Pacific Ocean and the Andes Mountains

• The Gobi Desert

• The Saharan Desert

• The Atacama Desert

• The Patagonian Desert

located in Brazil in the Amazon River Basin, it is the largest tropical rainforest in the world as it covers one-third of the continent of South America!

• The Amazon River

• The Amazon Rain Forest

• The Amazon tribes

• The Amazon Basin

the world's largest ocean that borders the western coast of South America

• Pacific Ocean

• Atlantic Ocean

• Indian Ocean

• Arctic Ocean

a narrow strip of land with sea on either side that forms a link between two larger areas of land- for Latin America- we learn about the one in Panama

• strait

• canal

• Isthmus

• archipelago

a depression of dip in the Earth's surface shaped like bowls- in regards to the Amazon

• a bowl

• a dip

• a gulf

• a basin