1. Physical Geography of Central America Fill in your map as we go through the slides

2. Mountains Sierra Madre Oriental Sierra Madre Occidental Sierra Madre del Sur Sierra Maestra Central Highlands

3. Volcanoes

4. Landforms Desert (Sonoran, Chihuahuan, et al Yucatan Peninsula Isthmus of Tehuantepec Isthmus of Panama Valley of Mexico Darien Gap Everglades Bayous

5. Rivers and Lakes Mobile/ Alabama Mississipp i Savannah Usumacinta Grande L. Okeechobee Nueces Orinoco L. Maracaibo L. Nicaragua Salado Panuco Conchos Grijalva Santiago Balsas Grande Pecos L. Pontchartrain Caroni Apure Carura Magdalena L. Gatun

6. Saltwater Atlantic Ocean Pacific Ocean Gulf of Mexico Caribbean Sea Bay of Panama Straits of Florida Mona Passage Windward Passage Yucatan Channel Bay of Campeche Guantanamo Bay

7. Islands Cuba Jamaica Cayman Hispaniola Bahamas Turks and Caicos Puerto Rico Trinidad & Tobago Virgin Lesser Antilles Pearl Cozumel

8. Island s

9. Sierra Madre Oriental Sierra Madre Occidental Sierra Madre del Sur Sierra Maestra Central Highlands Desert (Sonoran, Chihuahuan, et al Yucatan Peninsula Isthmus of Tehuantepec Isthmus of Panama Valley of Mexico Darien Gap Everglades Bayous Poniendolo todo junto Mobile/ Alabama Mississipp i Savannah Usumacinta Grande L. Okeechobee Nueces Orinoco L. Maracaibo L. Nicaragua Salado Panuco Conchos Grijalva Santiago Balsas Grande Pecos L. Pontchartrain Caroni Apure Carura Magdalena L. Gatun Atlantic Ocean Pacific Ocean Gulf of Mexico Caribbean Sea Bay of Panama Straits of Florida Mona Passage Windward Passage Yucatan Channel Bay of Campeche Guantanamo Bay Cuba Jamaica Cayman Hispaniola Bahamas Turks and Caicos Puerto Rico Trinidad & Tobago Virgin Lesser Antilles Pearl Cozumel

12. Sonoran and Chihuahuan Deserts

13. José María Velasco, The Valley of Mexico from the Santa Isabel Mountain Range (1875)

14. Cenotes, Yucatan

15. Rio Usumacinta

16. Guatemala

17. Peten Lowlands, Guatemala

18. Costa Rica

19. Darien, Panama