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- #1 export from Latin America
- oil/petroleum
- Venezuela
- a country in South America where most of South America's oil is found
- South America
- the world's fourth largest continent, bounded by the Caribbean Sea, the Atlantic Ocean, and the Pacific Ocean and linked to North America by the isthmus of Panama
- the Christ Child
- translation of El Nino
- coral
- a rock-like substance formed from the skeletons of tiny sea animals
- El Nino
- a warm ocean current that flows along the western coast of South America; this current influences global weather patterns
- landforms of Mexico
- mountains, plateau and narrow coastal plains
- Middle America
- Mexico and Central America
- the reason it is called Latin America
- the people speak Spanish, Portugese or French which have their roots in the Latin language
- Chile
- a country in South America that is the world's leading producer of copper
- plateau
- large raised area of mostly level land
- elevation
- height of land above sea level
- Carribbean
- a part of the southern Atlantic Ocean
- region of Latin America that is an isthmus
- Central America
- diversify economies
- a solution to the risks of an one resource or crop economy
- #2 export from Latin America
- agriculture, food (fruits and vegetables)
- Brazil
- the largest country in South America where coffee is a key crop
- Andes Mountains
- a mountain system extending along the western coast of South America that is the second highest in the world and has below-zero temperatures in places
- Effects of El Nino
- heavy rains and flooding, drought in other places, drives away fish that strive in cold water, disaster that effects the climate
- El Alto
- the highest airport in the world; Spanish for "the high one"
- Jamaica
- an island country in the Caribbean Sea that is the world's main producer of bauxite
- hydroelectricity
- electric power produced by moving water, usually generated by releasing water from a dam across a river
- Mexico
- a country in North America
- Ocean River
- nickname for Amazon River
- 2 types of islands in the Caribbean
- coral or skeletons of tiny sea animals and tops of huge underwater mountains
- Colombia
- a country in South America where coffee is a key crop
- tributaries
- river or stream that flows into a main river
- Patagonia
- a desert in southern Argentina; the largest desert in the Americas that has cold and dry plains
- diversify
- to add variety; to expand
- isthmus
- narrow strip of land that has water on both sides and joins two larger bodies of land
- Amazon
- the second-longest river in the world
- Amazonian Rain Forest
- a large tropical rainforest occupying the drainage basin of the Amazon River in northern South America and covering an area of 2,700,000 square miles
- Pampas
- flat grassland regions in the southern part of South America; a region similar to the Great Plains in the US
- Atacoma Desert
- a desert in Chile, South America; the driest place on the Earth with little sign of life because the Andes shield it from rain
- 3 geographic regions of Latin America
- Mexico and Central America, the Caribbean, and South America
- Central America
- the part of Latin America between Mexico and South America; includes the seven republics of Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rico, Panama and Belize