Review for the grade 7 Latin America unit test.

1. Latin America
Review for test

2. Amazon River – 2nd longest in world

4. Lake Titicaca – highest navigable

5. Totora reed boats made by
natives

6. Lake Maricaibo

8. Andes – longest mt chain in world

9. Sierra Madres – mts in Mexico

11. Isthmus of Panama
Connects Central America to South America

12. Tropics – warm climate

13. Latin America
– South America,
Central America,
and Mexico

14. • Mexico, Venezuela, Brazil – most
industrialized
• Middle Class is increasing
• Spanish & Portuguese are main languages
• Small number of wealthy control politics &
economy

15. Leading cash crops
Bananas, sugar cane,
coffee

16. U.S. helped Panama build the canal

17. Main religion: Catholicism (Catholic)

18. Top import: Machinery

19. Child labor – kids work 10 or more
hours a day, six or seven days a week

20. Cities
• Wealthy live here & send kids to US for school
• Governments worried about rising population
• High unemployment & pollution are problems

21. Large cities similar to ours

22. Nearly every city and larger village has
a public square called a plaza

23. Rural Areas
• Most do not own land
• Governments extending roads and utilities to
rural areas – try to encourage people to move
there
• Hacienda – Spanish word for plantation
• Open air markets – people shop and exchange
news.