Guided Reading Activity: Central America and the Caribbean

What are Central America’s most distinctive landforms?

• Volcanoes

• Deserts

• Plains

• Tundra

What are common occurrences related to landforms?

• Volcanoes

• Rivers

• Mountains

• Deserts

What type of soil does the lava weather to produce?

• Basaltic soil.

• Sandy soil.

• Clay soil.

• Loamy soil.

The __________________ of Panama connects North and South America and separates the Caribbean Sea from the Gulf of Panama.

• isthmus

• peninsula

• strait

• archipelago

The islands of the Greater Antilles and the Lesser Antilles are part of an __________________.

• an archipelago

• a continent

• a peninsula

• a desert

The largest lake in Central America is Lake __________________ and the only one in the world that contains oceanic animal life.

• Lake Nicaragua

• Lake Managua

• Lake Atitlán

• Lake Izabal

Nicaragua’s capital city is located on the southern shore of Lake __________________.

• Lake Managua

• Lake Nicaragua

• Lake Xolotlan

• Lake Cocibolca

An important human-made waterway is the __________________.

• Suez Canal

• Amazon River

• Nile River

• Mississippi River

Much of the region is located in the __________________, with high temperatures and abundant rainfall year-round.

• tropical rainforest

• arctic tundra

• desert

• temperate forest

Costa Rica and Panama are known as __________________ hotspots.

• biodiversity

• tourism

• technology

• agriculture