Latin America
Latin America & Caribbean Day 1 Schedule
• Achieve 3000
• Politcial Map of Latin America
(Central America + South America = Latin America)
- Color each country
- Label each country and Capital
*** YOUR ATLAS IS DUE TODAY***
1. Physical Map
2. Notes
3. Cities as centers of culture and trade
4. Cultural Landscape
Warm up (LAC day 2)
1. What do you think of when you hear the phrase “Latin America”?
-Begin your sentence with: When I hear the phrase Latin America………
2. Explain why those words come to mind.
3. What do you think of when you hear the word Caribbean?
-Begin your sentence with: When I hear the word Caribbean ……….
4. Explain why those words come to mind
Day 4- Schedule
• Warm up
• Add Physical Features to Political Map
Warm up
• Define the following terms IN YOUR OWN WORDS
1. Vertical Zonation
2. Archipelagoes
3. Gauchos
4. Diverse
5. Migrate
6. Resources
Physical Characteristics
Tierra Fria
Tierra Templada
Tierra Caliente
Physical Features
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Andes Mountains (Triangles)
Sierra Madres Mountains (Triangles)
Amazon Rain Forest ( your choice)
Atacama-Coastal Desert (dots)
Pampas-Grassland (small vertical lines)
Llanos-Grassland (Small vertical lines)
Archipelagoes
Latin America & Caribbean Notes
• The monarch Butterfly migrates from Canada to Latin America
Physical Characteristics
• There are opposite seasons south of the equator.
• This means when it is Summer in the U.S. it is Winter in most of Latin
America.
Physical Characteristics
• Most of Latin America has a tropical climate
Physical Characteristics
• There are Natural Hazards like Earthquakes and Volcanoes in Latin
America and the Caribbean.
Chalten Volcano in Chile
Economic Charcteristics
1. Like the United States and Canada, Latin America and the Caribbean
have Diverse Economies.
2. Subsistence Farming is growing enough crops to survive, but not to
make a large profit.
Economic Characteristics
• Latin Americans and Caribbeans have Cattle Ranches and Gauchos.
Gauchos are Cowboys.
Economic Characteristics
• Deforestation, or the destruction of Rainforests occurs in Latin
America and the Caribbean.
Major Oil Resources come from Ecuador, Venezuela, and Mexico
Economic Characteristics
• Diverse mineral resources
Copper in Chile
Iron Ore in Venezuela and Brazil
Exit Ticket- Look up and describe the
following terms
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Plantation agriculture
Slash-and-burn agriculture
Cash crops and food crops
Haciendas
Heavy smog, pollution: Mexico City
Disparity of income distribution
Warm up- Answer in COMPLETE SENTENCES
1. What is a Mestizo?
2. Which cultures do you think influenced Latin America and the
Caribbean?
3. If you took a trip to Latin America what do you think you would
see?
4. If you took a trip to the Caribbean what do you think you would
see?
Culture of Latin America and the Caribbean
• Latin America has been influenced by Indian Civilizations, European
Colonization, and African Traditions.
• A majority of Latin America and the Caribbean practices the Roman
Catholic Religion.
• A rigid social hierarchy is
practiced in the region.
• This makes it difficult for a
person to move upward in
society throughout his or her
life.
• The Mestizos of Latin America are usually mixed of American Indian
and European descent.
• Many of Latin Americas
Settlements are located along
the coasts instead of inland….
• A megacity is a city with a total population of more than ten million
people.
• 7. A squatter settlement is a place where people live, but they have
no legal rights or permission to live there
1. Squatter settlements are usually made of plywood, corrugated metal,
sheets of plastic, and cardboard boxes. Squatter settlements are
usually found on the edge of a city, in public parks, near railroad
tracks , rivers, lagoons, or city trash dump sites.
• 9. Latin America and the Caribbean are experiencing rapid
population growth, and out-migration.
• Out-migration is leaving one’s home city or region , and migrating or
moving to another place
• 11. Music of the Latin America and the Caribbean are influenced by
Africans .
• Some examples
• calypso,
• steel drum bands
• , reggae
Traditional dances
• Salsa
• Mamba
• Samba
• chachacha
Languages
Spanish and Portuguese are the two main languages spoken in latin
america
Research
OPTION 1
• Pick an aspect of Latin American or Caribbean Culture that was
discussed in the notes today.
• Research the topic
• Write a 5 sentence summary of the topic.
• Use complete sentences
OPTION 2
• Write a five sentence summary of Latin American and or Caribbean
culture using complete sentences.