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Mapping Lab: Latin America

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Location
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Intepreting Maps
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Think Like a Geographer
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1.

Drag and drop each terrain feature to the correct location using the grid coordinates provided.

Mmuae Afoforo a Wobɛpaw:
Rio Grande (30°N, 105°W)
Isthmus of Panama (8°N, 80°W)
Caribbean Sea (15°N, 75°W)
Yucatán Peninsula (20°N, 90°W)
Pampas (35°S, 60°W)
Cape Horn (55°S, 70°W)
Lake Titicaca (15°S, 70°W)
Amazon River (0°, 50°W)
Andes Mountains (20°S, 65°W)
Mexican Plateau (25°N, 105°W)
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Drag and drop each country to the correct location using the grid coordinates provided.

Mmuae Afoforo a Wobɛpaw:
Argentina (35°S, 65°W)
Venezuela (5°N, 65°W)
Cuba (23°N, 80°W)
Peru (10°S, 75°W)
Chile (25°S, 70°W)
Panama (8°N, 80°W)
Haiti (19°N, 73°W)
Ecuador (0°, 80°W)
Bolivia (15°S, 65°W)

Use the maps to answer each of the questions

If doing this from home, use the following links:

Political

Physical

Climate

Vegetation

Land Use

Population

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What is the most common type of vegetation throughout Latin

America?

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Which country has the most land with that type of vegetation (from #3)? Use correct capitalization and spelling.

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Through which seven Latin American countries do the Andes Mountains run?

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North of the Equator, and

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and are the two countries with the most desert vegetation. and are the two with the most desert scrub vegetation. (Use correct capitalization and spelling)

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Most of the precious metals in Latin America are found in . All of these countries have a lot

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Use the maps to drag each description to the correct location. Each category should have 5 characteristics.

  • Climate: semiarid

  • Vegetation: broadleaf evergreen

  • Physical: in Amazon basin, near the Amazon River

  • Vegetation: desert scrub

  • Climate: highlands

  • Land Use: little to none

  • Physical: in Andes Mountains

  • Population: 25 to 125 per square mile

  • Population: 2 to 25 per square mile

  • Vegetation: highlands

  • Physical: between Sierra Madre Occidental and Sierra Madre Oriental

  • Land Use: subsistence farming

  • Land Use: livestock raising

  • Population: 25 to 125 per square mile but near a major urban center of 1-4 million

  • Climate: tropical wet

  • 27° north, 105° west

  • 3° south, 65° west

  • 15° south, 72° west

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This picture was most likely taken at...

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Support your answer with evidence. From the map we learned that is location has and in the photograph we see

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Using evidence from a different map, support your answer with evidence. From the map we learned that is location has and in the photograph we see