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Latin America Atlas Hunt
Directions: Use the Unit 3 Atlas on pages 190-199 to respond to the following questions. Your answers do not need to
be in complete sentences.
Latin America: Physical (page 190-191)
1. Which river system dominates South America?
2. How much longer are the Andes than the Himalayas?
3. How many more people live in Latin America than in the U.S.?
4. What two oceans border Latin America?
5. What are South America’s highest mountains?
6. What mountain change runs through Mexico?
7. The Amazon River empties into what ocean?
8. What body of water is south of Puerto Rico?
9. Latin America is part of what two continents?
Latin America: Political (page 192-193)
1. Which country controlled the majority of Latin America?
2. What differences do you notice when you compare the 1800 map to the map of Latin America today?
3. What are some of the similarities between the 1800 map and the modern map of Latin America?
4. What is the largest country in South America?
5. What countries border Ecuador?
6. What country connects Central America to South America?
7. What do you think is the dominant language in Brazil? Why? (look at map on 192)
Regional Patterns (page 194-195)
8. What is the climate in much of the interior of South America? How does it differ from the climate along much
of the coast? How might the climate have affected settlement in the interior?
9. What language do the people speak in Brazil? What language is spoken in most countries in the region?
10. Where is most of the population located in South America? Where is there less population? Why might people
have settled in these areas rather than others?
11. Which two Latin American cities have the highest population?
12. What 8 countries have more than 75 percent of their population living in urban areas?
Regional Data Files (pages 196-199)
13. Which four countries have the shortest life expectancy?
14. Which four countries have the lowest literacy rate?
Using the Regional Data File, fill in the chart below
Country
Doctors
(per 100,000 people)
El Salvador
Infant Mortality
(per 1,000 live births)
Life Expectancy
(years)
Guatemala
Panama
15. In your chart, what relationship do you see among the number of doctors, the infant mortality, and the life
expectancy in the countries listed? Why do you think this relationship happens?
16. Which of the Central American countries listed do you think has the best health care? Why?
17. Take the three countries listed into consideration, what conclusion can you draw about the quality of health
care in Central America. Explain.