Vocabulary
Mexico and Central America
The Caribbean
South America
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100
To buy goods from another country.
What is import?
100
A main reason why Mexicans and Central Americans emigrate to the United States.
What is to find jobs?
100
The first people to live on the Caribbean Islands.
What are the Ciboney?
100
The two main languages spoken in South America.
What are Spanish and Portuguese?
100
This country has had the most influence on Latin America culture.
What is Spain?
200
To sell goods to another country.
What is export?
200
The official language in most Central American nations.
What is Spanish?
200
A term used to describe a person who is a descendant of a region's first inhabitants.
What is indigenous?
200
An event that is celebrated to mark the start of Lent before Easter.
What is Carnival?
200
These three cultures have had the most influence on Latin America culture.
What is Native American, African, and European?
300
Another word for variety.
What is diversity?
300
When farmers grow just enough food for their families.
What is subsistence farming?
300
The two Caribbean countries that share one island are Haiti and ________.
What is the Dominican Republic?
300
On the Pampas of Argentina, many people make their living as this.
What are cattle ranchers?
300
Another word for diversity.
What is variety?
400
A U.S. owned border factory located in Mexico.
What is a maquiladora?
400
A person who leaves one country to live in another country.
What is an immigrant?
400
The name of the island that contains the countries of Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
What is Hispaniola?
400
One difference between the populations of Chile and Brazil is most Chileans are mestizos, while Brazilians are _________.
What is ethnically diverse?
400
To move from one country to another country.
What is emigrate?
500
A group of people that can be distinguished by race, language, religion, and cultural tradition.
What is an ethnic group?
500
One effect of rapid urbanization in Mexico.
What is a shortage of housing?
500
The reason for the split of cultures on the island of Hispaniola.
What is European nations that dominated the region?
500
The world's largest community of Japanese outside of Japan live in this Brazilian city.
What is Sao Paulo?
500
While workers on small farms grow just enough to meet their needs, on large farms, workers grow enough crops to _________.
What is export?
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