World Geography Unit 2 Crossword

This is part of the highlands of South America
In 11532, this person marched south into Peru and conquered the Inca Empire and murdered their Emperor Atahualpa
Argentina's capital
River located in South America that drains the Amazon Basin
Led by Toussaint-Loverture, in the 1970's Haiti had won its independence from France
The oldest Spanish-language newspaper read by 50,000 people every day
In Southern Argentina, hills and lower flatlands form a plateau known as this.
Where the Andes are widest there are high flat plains called ______.
An important waterway that cuts through the isthums of Panama. This canal is human made and was completed in 1914.
Parts of northern Mexico and the sothwestern region of South America have desert climates and vegtation
In 1519, _______ landed in Mexico with 600 Conquistadors and allied with local enemies of the Aztecs.
This area lies between sea level and 2,500 feet and has average annual temperatures from 68 to 91 degrees
In this area, frosts are common in the winter months.
Led by Miguel Hialgo, a perish priest, in 1810
The place where a tide meets a river current
Parallel mountain ranges are called _____.
A cowhead that rid the panamas herding livestock, the major agricultural product of Argentina
This thing causes animal habitats to be destroyed
A continuous layer of leaves made of broad-leafed and needle leafed evergreen trees are so close together that their crowns form a dense ______.
Steep cliffs on the Eastern coast of Brazil
A mountain range primarily in northern Santa Barbara County and extending into northwestern Ventura County in Southern California
The world's longest mountain range
One of the principal rivers in the southwest United States and northern Mexico
A plateau in South America, covering a 1,000-kilometre strip of land on the Pacific coast, west of the Andes mountains
A plateau in South America, covering a 1,000-kilometre strip of land on the Pacific coast, west of the Andes mountains
An area that covers 8 million square miles of land from the United States-Mexico border to the southern tip of Argentina
A part of earth where earth's crust have collided for millions of years causing earthquakes and creating mountains
A region of the North Atlantic Ocean in the Caribbean, that includes the island nations and surrounding waters of three major archipelagoes
The reason why geographers divide Latin America into three distinct areas
A small Caribbean country with a population only slightly greater than that of New York City