Latin America 1
Buy and Selling Goods
What is TRADE?
Movement of people into a new country.
What is Immigration?
Movement of people from one place to another.
What is Migration?
A sea located by North Atlantic Ocean in the tropics of the Western Hemisphere, located south of the Gulf of Mexico
What is the Caribbean Sea?
Encompassing 19-33 countries and territories stretching from Mexico through Central America to South America.
What is Latin America?
Native people of a region.
Who are the Indigenous people?
An early civilization in Mexico.
What is Aztec?
Lack of money or basic needs.
What is Poverty?
A waterway that connects the Caribbean Sea with the Pacific Ocean.
What is the Panama Canal?
A diverse, mostly Spanish and Portuguese-speaking cultural region in the Americas.
What is Latin America?
Political Leaders who rule with total control.
Who are Dictators?
An early civilization in Central America.
What is Maya?
The official language of most Latin American countries.
What is Spanish?
The largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions. (Waterways)
What is the Pacific Ocean?
Often called the "Lungs of the Earth" or "Air Conditioner," it stores 48 billion tons of carbon dioxide and impacts global rainfall patterns.
What is the Amazon Rainforest?
The leader of the Catholic Church.
Who is the Pope?
A narrow strip of land connecting two larger land areas.
What is the Isthmus?
Trade in illegal drugs by organized crime group.
What are the Drug Cartels?
The Gulf is bordered by the United States. North of six Mexican states., and the island of Cuba to the southeast.
What is the Gulf of Mexico?
The world's largest river by water volume, second in length only to the Nile, and flows through South America.
What is the Amazon River?
U.S. Policy warning Europe not to interfere in the Americas
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
European soldiers who explored and conquered in the Americas.
Who are the Conquistadors?
Exchange of Goods, Ideas, Plants, Animals between Europe and the Americas.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
A major mountain system in Mexico comprising three main ranges.
What are the Sierra Madre Mountains?
This is a desert plateau located on the Pacific coast of South America, in the north of Chile.
What is the Atacoma Desert?