Central & South America Crossword

Read by 50,000 people every day/ newspaper in the Caribbean.
Latin America covers 8 million square miles of land, from the US-Mexico border to the southern tip of ??? in South America.
The name "???" refers to the languages (Spanish and Portuguese, derived from Latin) spoken in this geographic region.
Geographers divide Latin America into 3 regions: Middle America, the Caribbean and ???
Where plates on the Earth's crust have collided for millions of years, causing earthquakes and creating mountains/ volcanoes.
Rise above the landscape of Middle America.
Many Caribbean islands are a part of this mountain range.
Worlds longest mountain range.
Hills and flatlands for a plateau known as this.
High flat plains.
Parallel ranges arranged in deep folds.
Broad plateaus in Brazil (1)
Broad plateaus in Brazil. (2)
Located in South America drains a large area called the Amazon Basin.
Smaller rivers that flow into a larger river.
Example of how a river can be between 2 countries like a physical barrier.
Important waterway that cuts through the isthmus of Panama.
Hem the Gulf of Mexico and the Pacific and Atlantic coasts of South America.
Rivers of South America are types of ???
Navigable rivers, such as the Amazon serve as a type of ???
The Amazon is a navigable river that provides???
Major deposits of natural gas and oil occur along ??? and the southern Caribbean Sea.
Scientists can use chemical structures of plants in the rain forest as models so they can synthesize what?
Latin America lies between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of ???
Eastern/ Central America, Mexico, parts of South America, and the Caribbean Islands are all?
Has a tropical rain forest climate and vegetation.
A climate with hot summers, cool winters, and a light rainfall.
Climates in Latin America depend more on ??? than distance from the equator.
Warm climates.
Cold climate