The Land of Latin America

• Latin America is called Latin America because it was settled by the ___ and ___ European groups from which it gets their languages and the languages are ___ based.

• There are four parts of Latin America according to cscope( only 3 in your book): ________________.

• Latin America also has towering ___.• The two main ones are the ___ in Mexico and the ___ that run the western ridge of South

America.• Most of ___ is one large piece of raised flatter land called a ___.• This makes temperatures ___ year round.• Besides the mountains of Latin America there are some flat areas.• IN Columbia and Venezuela are the ___ and in Argentina and Uruguay are the ___.• The cowboys of each are called the ___ and the ____.

• In Latin America ___ serve as arteries for transportation.• Most of the major rivers of Latin America are in South America but the main one of

Middle America is Mexico’s ___.• The main river of Latin America is the ___ River.• Hundreds of Rivers join it and it gets larger and larger.• ____ can travel up the river 2,300 miles it is so big.• It also serves as a source of power because it makes electricity or ____ power.• Most people in Latin America live along rivers because it is such a good source of ____

and ____.• Many people also live along the ocean like those that live in the ___ Islands.• During the summer and fall months they have to contend with ____ which are huge

ocean born storms that are fueled by warm water and the ____ effect.

• Latin America also has the highest navigable lake called ___.• Latin America also has many natural resources.• In the Caribbean sea there is a great deal of ___.• Brazil mines lots of ___ while Peru and Mexico mine a great deal of ___.• Jamaica even does some mining and it is for bauxite which is turned into ___.• In Latin America there is also the area around the equator called the ____.• 5 Degrees to the north and south of the equator is this area and the winds are

usually ____.• Sailors first noticed it because they did not ___.• The doldrums are also called the Intertropical ____ Zone.

• Another form of wind affects Latin America quite a bit and comes from Africa called the ____ winds.

• It was called this because it brought ____ very easily along trade routes.

• Sometimes the trade winds converge, or ____, on the Intertropical Convergence Zone and when they do they bring very heavy ____.

• When the storms are blown into the Intertropical Convergence Zone they do not ____ which is the cause of the heavy rain.