Across
- 4. Name the country: US is a major export partner, cities are built inland to avoid hurricanes and other natural disasters, petroleum is a major export.
- 5. Mexico City's geography is an issue because it sits in a ____________ shaped valley.
- 7. The industry that is the biggest reason for deforestation in Brazil.
- 8. _____________ and Portuguese and the languages spoken in Latin America
- 10. Mexico's top trade partner and northern neighbor
- 12. Ocean off the east coast of South America and east of the Caribbean.
- 13. The ______________ river is the second longest in the world.
- 15. Ocean one might see to the west if standing on the Andes Mountains
- 17. Man made canal that connects the Pacific and Atlantic oceans
- 18. Name the country: most people live on the coast, South America’s largest country, major export is coffee
- 21. Name the country: An island, hurricanes, old cars, communist
- 22. ______________ America is home to features such as the Amazon rainforest, Andes Mountains, and the Atacama desert.
Down
- 1. The Amazon ______________ is home to millions of species of animals
- 2. ____________ tests are one way the Mexican government has tried to solve it's air pollution isses.
- 3. _____________ from cars, trucks, and factories is the biggest cause of air pollution in Mexico City.
- 6. ___________ America is a region made up of Mexico, Central America, and Latin America.
- 9. Cuba's biggest threat annually from it's environment.
- 11. Cuba is the largest island in the ____________________ sea.
- 14. Type of pollution that is Mexico City's environmental issue.
- 16. driest desert in the world
- 19. Longest Mountain chain in the world
- 20. Nickname of the Amazon rainforest, "____________ of the world".