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CANADA & LATIN AMERICA Chapter One Lesson 1 1. ________Canada_______ is the second-largest country in the world. 2. Canada is larger than ___the United States______ but it has the population of the state of ____California______________. 3. Canada’s climate is influenced by ___its high latitude or distance from the____ _ equator ___________________________. 4. Canada has seven different ____land regions_____________. 5. In the Canadian Shield many years ago glaciers wore down mountains, and carved out ___________lakes____________, _____________rivers__________, and ____________valleys______________. 6. North of the ____timberline_________ the climate is too cold for trees to grow. 7. Where is Canada’s richest farmland located? __________St. Lawrence Lowlands Region __________________________ 8. The St. Lawrence River connects the _______Atlantic Ocean_________ and the _________Great Lakes_____________________. 9. Canada’s longest river is the ________Mackenzie River___________________. 10. Two mountain ranges in Western Canada are the ____Rocky Mountains______ _________________________ and the ________Coast Mountains___________. 11. What are Canada’s main natural resources? _________________________________ ______timber, oil, natural gas, coal, minerals, animals (fish) ____________________ _______________________________________________________________________ 12. Name the seven regions of Canada. _______________________________________ ________Appalachian, St. Lawrnece Lowlands, Canadian Shield, Hudson Bay Lowlands, Interior Plains, Western Cordilleras, and the Arctic Islands Regions._______ _______________________________________________________________________ Lesson 2 1. Latin America stretches from the northern edge of ____Mexico ________ in North America to the southern tip of ____South America_____. 2. Latin America includes: ____Mexico _______________________________________ ____Central America ________________________________ ____the Caribbean Islands_____________________________ ____South America _________________________________ 3. Latin America is so large that its geography ______________________________ ____varies from one part of the region to another _______________________ 4. What causes the warm tropical climate in Latin America? ___________________ ______The sun shines directly overhead in the tropics. __________________ MEXICO 5. The ______Rio Grande River____________ forms most of the border between Mexico and the United States. 6. Where do most of Mexico’s people live? ________________________________ _______Plateau of Mexico___________________________________________ 7. _______Mexico City____________________ is the capital of Mexico. 8. The two mountain ranges in Mexico are the ______________________________ _______Sierra Madre Occidental___________________________________ _______Sierra Madre Oriental _____________________________________. 9. The Plateau of Mexico has many _____earthquakes ________________ which destroy homes and injure or kill people. 10. What two peninsulas are part of Mexico? _______________________________ _____Baja California Peninsula and the Yucatan Peninsula _______ CENTRAL AMERICA 11. How many countries are in Central America? _____seven_______________ 12. Why was the Panama Canal built? ____to allow ships to travel _____________ _________between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans_____________________ 13. What do the Volcanoes of Central America do to the land in the area? ________ _______it keeps the soil very fertile______________________________ THE CARIBBEAN ISLANDS 14. The three groups of islands in the Caribbean islands are: _____Greater Antilles____________________________ _____Lesser Antilles_____________________________ _____Bahamas__________________________________ SOUTH AMERICA 15. South America is home to the world’s largest ___rainforest________. 16. _____The Amazon____________ is the second longest river in the world. 17. The ______Atacama ____________________________Desert and the ____Andes___________ Mountains are part of South America. 18. Where does Venezuela get most of its wealth? __the oil industry_______ Lesson 3 1. Scientists believe most of the native peoples in the Americas migrated from _____Asia_____________________. 2. Name two ways early people may have migrated to South America. ____by foot from the North or by boat______________________________ 3. What did early Americans depend on to survive? ________________________ _______hunting and gathering in search of food__________________________ 4. What did agriculture allow people to do? ________________________________ __________to settle in one place and build permanent villages______________ EARLY CANADIANS 5. There were _____six________ different regions of Canada’s early people. A. Eastern Woodland Culture Food: _____corn, beans, squash_______________________ Homes: ____longhouse and wigwams from timber_________ B. Arctic Culture Food: ____used kayaks & dogsleds to find food___________________ Homes: __temporary igloos of ice, permanent sod and stone_________ C. Subarctic Culture Food: ___hunting animals for food______________________________ Homes: ____wigwams______________________________________ D. Northwest Coast Culture Food: ______fished for salmon and whales________________________ Homes: ____large rectangular houses____________________________ E. Plains Culture Food: ______hunted buffalo_______________________________ Homes: ____teepees of buffalo skins______________________________ F. Plateau Culture Food: ____deer and salmon_____________________________ Homes: ____round earthen houses________________________________ EARLY CIVILIZATIONS Civilization Known for: 6. Olmec Pyramids, temple, plazas, and a calendar 7. Mayan Writing system, cities, flat-topped pyramids 8. Aztec Empire Earliest Empire in the Americas 9. Inca Empire Two major road systems