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Chapter 6 Latin America: Its Land and History
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Most of Latin America lies here, which causes the climate to be hot.
Tropical Zone
This is how manufactured products from Spain were introduced to Latin America.
Columbian Exchange
Who was the Aztec ruler, who lost his empire to Spain?
Montezuma
What are smaller bodies of water that flow into larger bodies of water? The Amazon River has over 1,000 of these.
tributaries
floating gardens
chinampas
Who was the Spanish soldier who conquered the Inca?
Francisco Pizarro
What was the Mayan language system called that used symbols?
hieroglyphs
What is the warm Pacific Ocean current that means "the Christ child" in Spanish?
El Nino
The Amazon region had many trees cleared to make room for cattle ranches. What is the process of clearing the land called?
deforestation
The name of one of the ancient Inca cities.
Machu Picchu
What are some problems Mexico faces?
earthquakes, volcanoes, air pollution from exhaust that is trapped by the mountains
Why are volcanoes and floods expecially likey to occur in Central America?
tetonic plates moving and El Nino
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Chapter 6 Latin America: Its Land and History
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