latin america physical features quilt
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Latin America’s Physical Geography
EQ: What are characteristics of Latin America’s physical
features?
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Your Task: We are going to participate in a Museum
Walk! You will travel around the room with a partner and complete sections of your chart at each station.
Do NOT draw the illustrations at this time. You will work on those when I show you the photographs.
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Latin America is divided into 3 Regions: Mexico and Central America The Caribbean South America
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Central Central AmericaAmericaCentral Central AmericaAmerica
The CaribbeanThe CaribbeanThe CaribbeanThe Caribbean
South South AmericaAmericaSouth South
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I. Mexico and Central America 2,500 miles (about as wide as the US) Mountains dominate the region
Part of a huge system that extends from Canada, through the US, and all the way to the tip of South America
Central plateau in Mexico Lies between Sierra Madre mountains and makes up
more than half the country’s area Central America is an Isthmus
Isthmus = a narrow strip of land that has water on both sides and joins 2 larger bodies of water
Many volcanoes in Central America, as a result, their soil is arable (fertile) and many people farm lands
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Mexico and Central America
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Gulf of Mexico
Body of water Bordered by the US
to the north, 5 Mexican states to the south, and Cuba to the east
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Sierra Madre Mountains Mountain system in Mexico Three major chains: the Sierra Madre
Occidental in the west, the Sierra Madre Oriental in the east, and the Sierra Madre del Sur, which extends along the southern coast The Sierra Madre range contains some of the highest mountains and volcanoes in Mexico.
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Sierra Madre Mountains
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The Sierra Madres
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Panama Canal canal across the isthmus of Panama in Central
America Major “shortcut” that allows ships to travel between
the Pacific and Atlantic oceans handles a large volume of world shipping and
enables vessels to avoid traveling around South America, reducing their voyages by thousands of miles and many days. Consists of artificially created lakes, channels, and a
series of locks, or water-filled chambers, that raise and lower ships through the mountainous terrain of central Panama
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Panama Canal
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The Panama CanalThe Panama Canal
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The Caribbean Islands Small islands are made of coral
Skeletons of tiny sea animals, rock-like substance
Larger islands are tops of underwater mountains Examples: Cuba, Jamaica
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Caribbean Sea Surrounds the islands of the West Indies East of Central America A major trade route for Latin American
countries A popular tourist area—noted for its mild tropical climate and beautiful waters
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Caribbean Sea
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South America Andes Mountains—4,500 miles along west
coast of South America They rise at some points to 20,000 feet—same
height as twenty 100 story buildings stacked on top of each other
2nd largest mountains; Himalayas are the 1st
Amazon River Basin—contains the largest tropical rain forest (Amazon Rain Forest) in the world; covers 1/3 of the continent
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Andes
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Andes Mountains (Peru)
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Llamas in the Andes
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Amazon Rain Forest
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Amazon Rain Forest
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Deforestation in the Amazon
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South America Atacama Desert (Chile)—one of the driest
places on earth; very little rainfall Between the Pacific Ocean and the Andes
Mountains
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Atacama Desert
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Atacama DesertAtacama Desert
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South America—Water Rivers serve as natural highways where
it’s hard to build roads provide food and hydroelectric power
Amazon River—2nd largest river in the world (1st--Nile River) 4,000 miles from Peru across to Atlantic Ocean Contains 20% of all fresh water in the world!
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Amazon River—view from space
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Pacific Ocean World’s largest ocean Covers the western coast of South America
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Your Task We are going to create a class “quilt” of
Latin America’s physical features!
On your sheet of construction paper, please include the following: 1. Name of feature 2. What it is 3. Where it’s located 4. COLORFUL illustration