Latin America Test

A place's height above sea level is called ________

• Elevation (or Altitude)

• Longitude

• Sea Height Level

• Coordinates

Caracas is the capital city of _________

• Bolivia

• Peru

• Argentina

• Venezuela

Explain the connection between a place's altitude and its temperature.

Match the following terms with the best definition

• growing poverty in areas with few people

• Standard of living

• unfair distribution of wealth/resources

• Spatial inequality

• How happy & satisfied people are

• Rural decline

• Access to resources and material things

• Urbanization

• people moving from rural to urban areas

• Quality of Life

Which of these South American countries is landlocked?

• Chile

• Uruguay

• Bolivia

• Colombia

If you started in Buenos Aires, Argentina, which direction would you travel to get to the Caribbean Sea?

The ​ (a)   connecting North and South America is found in the country of ​ (b)   ​ ​

• isthmus
• Panama
• island
• Argentina
• subway
• Canada

South America is a ​ (a)   that is ​ (b)   near the equator and ​ (c)   near the southern tip.

• continent
• hot
• cold
• country

What type of climate would you experience if you visited the Tierra Caliente?

• arid and dry

• hot and humid

• icy and freezing

• chilly & windy

A summer soccer tournament hosted in the Caribbean could face the potential for a _______________.

• blizzard

• government shutdown

• hurricane

• earthquake