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PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY OF LATIN AMERICA

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Section 1: Landforms and Resources

Latin America’s landforms include highlands, lowlands, mountains, and plains.

The Andes Mountains and the Amazon River are the region’s most remarkable physical features.

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The vegetation of Latin America ranges from grasslands to the largest rain forest in the world.

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Latin America has a variety of climates, from the cold peaks of the Andes to the Amazon rain forest.

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Tourism is having a growing impact on the environment of Latin America.

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The people of Latin America have altered the land through agriculture and urbanization.

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Major Mountain Ranges

Andes, Sierra Madres

Major Waterways

Orinoco, Amazon, Paraná

Major Plains

pampas of Argentina and Uruguay, llanos of Colombia and Venezuela,

cerrado of Brazil


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• Latin America has important mineral and energy resources.

• Venezuela and Mexico have major energy reserves.

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Climate and Vegetation

• The variety of climate and vegetation in Latin America is caused by the great distance from north to south, variations in elevation, and ocean currents.

• Latin America has many rain forests.

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• Two techniques that farmers have used in the region are slash-and-burn and terraced farming.

• Cities in Latin America have grown at a rapid pace, and the region is now highly urbanized.

• Tourism has both advantages and disadvantages for the region.

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10 points Landforms and ResourcesLandforms and Resources

20 points Geographic ChallengeGeographic Challenge

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10 points Climate and VegetationClimate and Vegetation


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The Orinoco drains Venezuela and Colombia.

1. What two countries does the Orinoco River drain?


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They are located along the Pacific coast of South America.

2. Where are the Andes Mountains located?


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Slash-and-burn involves using ashes.

3. What agricultural technique involves using ashes to fertilize the soil?


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They are plains that provide soil for growing crops and grass for grazing livestock.

4. What characteristics do the pampas and llanos have in common?


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The Amazon drains the largest rain forest.

5. Which river drains the largest rain forest in the region?


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The Orinoco is the northernmost of the great rivers.

6. Which is the northernmost of the great rivers of South America?


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Terraced farming is useful in the mountains.

7. What farming technique is especially useful in mountainous regions?


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Cattle and wheat grain are the main products of the pampas.

8. What are the main products of the pampas?


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The Andes Mountains have made settlement moving east from the Pacific coast more difficult because they are a barrier to movement into the interior. As a result, more settlement has occurred along the eastern and northern coasts.

1. How have the Andes Mountains affected settlement in South America?


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growing crops and grazing livestock

2. What are the two main purposes for which the plains and grasslands of the region are used?



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Bahamas, Greater Antilles, Lesser Antilles

3. What are the three major island groups of the Caribbean?



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Trinidad—factories have sprung up to manufacture methanol and ammonia; developers have been attracted to the island

4. What Caribbean island is rich in natural gas, and what impact has this had on the economy?



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South America

1. In what part of the region are savannas most common?


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People grow different crops depending on the elevation at which they live.

2. How do the vertical climate zones of Latin America affect agriculture?



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rain forest

3. What is the dominant vegetation of the Amazon River basin?



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It quickly exhausts the soil.

1. What is the main disadvantage of the slash-and-burn method of growing crops?


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higher-paying jobs, better schools, better medical care

2. What factors tend to pull people into the cities from their farms?


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congestion, pollution, strain on local communities, gap between rich and poor, large public debt, profits not reinvested in tourist country, influence of nonresidents on local affairs

3. What are some disadvantages of tourism in the region?


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High-altitude zones in the mountains, semiarid, and desert zones such as the Atacama Desert in Chile would be the least agriculturally productive.

1. Based on landforms and climate, which areas of Latin America would be the least agriculturally productive?


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