Western Studies chapter 11
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- isthmus of Central America
- it connects Mexico and South America
- elevation
- the height of land above sea level
- El Nino
- Spanish for "Christ Child" and means A warm ocean current that flows along the western coast of South America and also brings heavy rain and lots of flooding
- Patagonia Desert
- located in Southern Argentina and is the largest desert in the Americas
- pampas
- a large plain area that stretches through Argentina and Uruguay/ flat grassland regions
- #2 Export from Latin America
- agriculture/fruits and vegetables/ food
- tributary
- rivers and streams that flow into a larger river
- Amazon River
- second longest river in the world and flows 4,000 miles
- plateau
- a large raised area of mostly level land
- Atacama Desert
- the driest place on earth and is located in Chile
- Amazon rain forest
- covers more than 2,000,000 square miles and the air is so dense that almost no sunlight reaches the ground
- Latin America's resources
- fish, silver, petroleum, bananas, water and forests
- 3 geographic regions
- Mexico & Central America; Caribbean; & South America
- coral
- skeletons that meld together to form a rocklike substance
- diversify
- to add variety
- Central America
- part of Latin America between Mexico and South America
- hydroelectricity
- the power of rushing water to produce electricity. Huge dams are built to control hydroelectricity
- nickname for Amazon River
- Ocean River
- El Alto
- the highest airport in the world/ also spanish for "the high one"
- #1 export from Latin America
- oil/petroleum
- oxygen starvation
- less oxygen than most people are used to in the Andes
- South America
- worlds fourth largest continent bounded by the Caribbean sea, the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and linked to North America by the Isthmus of Panama
- Latin America
- located in the western hemisphere
- isthmus
- a narrow strip of land that has water on both sides and joins two larger bodies of land