Describe the pictures to the left.

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• Describe the pictures to the left.
• Explain what is significant about each of the
  pictures.
• How do these pictures relate to the Latin
  American unit?
• How do these pictures relate to the Red Goes
  Green initiative?

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Latin America Climates and People

• Pages 443-447

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Tropical Climate

• 75 of Latin America lies in the tropics
• Tropical wet climate Amazon Basin, some
  Caribbean islands, parts of Central America
• Much of Latin America has a wet and dry climate
• Half the year is rainy/other half is dry
• Lowlands of Mexico, western Central America,
  southern Brazil

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Other Climates

• Temperate
• Paraguay, Uruguay
• Warm and cool season
• Dry Climates
• Northern Mexico, Argentina
• Baja Peninsula
• Atacama Desert in Chile is VERY dry

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Natural Resources

• Gold and silver Brazil, Mexico, Peru
• Copper Chile
• Oil Mexico and Venezuela
• Cash crops bananas, sugar, tobacco, coffee,
  rubber

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Peoples of Latin America

• 80 million Native Americans lived in Western
  Hemisphere before Columbus
• Mestizos People of mixed European and Native
  American ancestry
• Africans brought as slaves between 1500-1800
• Millions of American Indians speak their native
  languages still today
• Most Latin Americans are Roman Catholic.
• Variety of ethnicities and cultures
• Most spoken language Spanish
• Brazilians speak Portuguese, though

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Population Patterns

• Concentration of people in temperate highland
  areas and coastal plains
• Only 6 of Latin America is suitable for farming
• Interior region Native American and/or mestizo
  culture
• European culture in the cities
• Has over 500 million people living there