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The Big Picture page 286
1. What is the Ice Age?
2. Why did the levels of the oceans begin to drop during the Ice Age?
3. What is Beringia?
4. Where is the Bering Strait and what two countries are on both sides?
5. What is Mesoamerica?
Environments of Middle America page 287
6. What did the people who traveled south from what is now the US find?
The Land of Middle America on page 287
7. What is the Central Plateau and where is it?
The Climate of Middle America on page 287
8. What is a Tropical Zone?
9. What is the Tropic of Cancer?
10. What is the Tropic of Capricorn?
11. What is Tierra Caliente?
12. What is Tierra Templada?
13. What is Tierra Fria?
14. When does most of the rain fall in Middle America?
The Rain Forest on page 288
15. What is a rain forest?
16. Where are the earth’s rain forests?
A unique Environment on page 288
17. How many of the earth’s living things are found in the rain forests?
18. Tell me about the trees in the rain forest?
19. What is a canopy?
People in Middle America on page 289
20. When did the 1st people come to Middle America and what were they like?
The Big Picture on page 292
21. Who are Olmec people and when did the flourish?
22. Why were the Olmec known as the people of the rubber country?
The Olmec on page 293
23. Where did the Olmec People flourish?
24. When did the Olmec people flourish?
25. Why did the Olmec people flourish in this area?
26. What is Slash and Burn and how did this help the Olmec?
Life in an Olmec Town on page 294
27. What is La Venta?
28. How is La Venta set up?
Olmec Religion on page 294
29. What were the religious beliefs of the Olmec?
30. What about the animal beliefs?
Crafts of the Olmec on page 295
31. What were some of the crafts and what were they made of?
Olmec Traders on page 296
32. How do we think the Olmec traded with other groups in the Middle America?