Latin America Vocabulary

________________ the profession of designing buildings.

• Architecture

• Excerpt

• Panama Canal

• Colonization

_______________________ is to colonize a large group of people and land by force.

• Slavery

• Colonization

• America Indians

• Portuguese

_________________________ is the process of clearing a forest by cutting down trees.

• Irrigation System

• Farming

• Deforestation

• Colonization

______________________ is pollution.

• Trash

• Clean air

• Literacy Rate

• Pollutants

______________________is the percent of adults that can read and write.

• Literacy Rate

• Life Expectancy

• Less Developed Country

• More Developed Country

______________________are a large mountain range in the western part of South America.

• Ural Mountains

• Andes Mountains

• Alps

• Deforestation

______________________ is a cultural name for Central and South America and the Caribbean.

• Panama Canal

• Central Mexico

• Latin America

• Brazil

______________________ is a man-made waterway in Central America that is use as a short-cut for ship travel to the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean.

• Pacific Ocean

• Atlantic Ocean

• Strait of Magellan

• Panama Canal

___________________________ – is a system of watering plants.

• Irrigation System

• Deforestation

• Pollutants

• Colonization

_____________________ is a sentence or statement.

• Story Review

• Excerpt

• Anchor Chart

• Literacy Rate