Climate Zones
The tropical wet climate is known for its year-long heat and abundant rainfall which provides plentiful moisture for these forests.
What is tropical rainforest.
These are the explorers that are often given credit for "conquering" Latin America.
This is the main language spoken in Latin America though it is often spoken in various dialects.
What is Spanish?
Unlike the United States and Canada that are considered post-industrial economies, Latin American countries are typically considered this.
What is developing country?
These makeshift slums in Latin American cities are also known as this.
What are shantytowns?
The humid subtropical climate has short winters and long, hot, and humid summers that make it ideal for these agricultural professions.
What are farming and ranching.
What is Brazil?
This is the major religion of Latin America.
What is Catholicism?
This cash crop is grown throughout Latin America, but prominently in Guatemala and Colombia. It is served to many people world wide with breakfast.
What is coffee?
This sport is a local favorite in places like Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic and other Latin American countries, and they often send players to the USA to play professionally.
What is baseball?
The tierra helada is a high climate zone distinguishable by permanent what?
What are ice and snow?
DAILY DOUBLE:
Name three ancient civilizations of Latin America that dominated various regions at some point.
Aztec, Maya, and Inca
This is the name given to people of both Native American and European descent.
What is mestizo?
These farms are often small with insufficient funds to increase in acres or upgrade equipment to produce crops more efficiently.
What are minifundias?
Daily Double:
This practice which involves clearing forest and then planting crops is also known as this.
Slash-and-Burn Farming
This climate zone has seasons of abundant rainfall then extended dry seasons.
What are tropical dry climates?
This was the first major settlement in Latin America by European settlers.
What is Hispaniola?
These farms are owned by large corporations and own large quantities of land and more efficient means to grow crops.
What are latifundias?
Venezuela and Guyanna
This desert located in the dry climates of Latin America has areas that have no recorded amounts of rainfall.
What is the Atacama Desert?
This is the famous mountain city of the Inca that the ruins remain high in the Andes Mountains.
This is the blending of various religions to form a new religion.
What is syncretism?
What is DR-CAFTA?
This famous baseball player was known by nobody in the class, and when Mr. Huber shared his name and no one knew who he was, he felt like an old man?
Sami Sosa