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Latin American countries. Mexico Cuba Haiti Panama Venezuela Brazil Colombia Bolivia. Features of Latin America. Panama Canal Andes Mountains Sierra Madre Mountains Atacama Desert. Amazon River Caribbean Sea Gulf of Mexico Pacific Ocean. Vocabulary Words. Soil exhaustion
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Latin American countries • Mexico Cuba • Haiti • Panama • Venezuela • Brazil • Colombia • Bolivia
Features of Latin America • Panama Canal • Andes Mountains • Sierra Madre Mountains • Atacama Desert • Amazon River • Caribbean Sea • Gulf of Mexico • Pacific Ocean
Vocabulary Words • Soil exhaustion • Pampas • Estuary • Strait • Canal • Selvas • El Nino • Peru current • Sinkhole • Archipelago • Cloud forest • Bauxite • Cordillera • Llanos • Tepuis
Sinkhole • Steep sided depression where the roof of a cave collapses
archipelago • Large group of islands
Cloud forest • Low clouds found in high elevation, wet, tropical forests
Bauxite • Aluminum ore
cordillera • A three prong mountain range
Tepuis • Sandstone capped steep sided plateaus
Llanos • Plains of Eastern Colombia and Western Venezuela
pampas • Wide grassy plains
Estuary • Body of water that ½ is salt water and ½ is fresh water
Soil exhaustion • Loss of nutrients from the soil
strait • Narrow passageway that connects 2 bodies of water
Selvas • Thick tropical rain forest in the Amazon
Peru current • When cold water chills the warmer air above the ocean surface, low clouds form
canal • Manmade passageway between 2 bodies of land
El Nino • A build up of warm water in Pacific ocean causing heavy rains and floods