Latin America Geography

4. nickname of the area northeast of the Bahamas that is famous for missing ships
7. mountain range that runs along the western coast of South America
8. extensive, treeless plains in South America
9. a large windstorm caused by warm ocean waters
11. a volcanic archipelago in the Pacific Ocean; a province of Ecuador
13. path along the Pacific Ocean characterized by active volcanoes and frequent earthquakes
14. means southern cone, southern tip of South America containing grasslands
15. a domesticated pack animal of the camel family found in the Andes, valued for its soft woolly fleece
17. world’s largest tropical rainforest, famed for its biodiversity. It’s crisscrossed by thousands of rivers
20. a piece of land almost surrounded by water or projecting out into a body of water

1. artificial waterway that connects the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans
2. a violently rotating column of air
3. South American cowboys
5. a group of islands
6. Incan citadel and popular tourist attraction is found in Peru
10. a large naturally occurring community of flora and fauna occupying a major habitat, e.g. forest or tundra
12. line that splits the globe from east to west
16. the most common language in Latin America
18. imaginary line that separates the earth into a northern and southern hemisphere
19. an archipelago off the southernmost tip of the South American mainland; means "land of fire"