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What is a violent moment of the earth called
What is an earthquake
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Country we associate with volcanoes
What is El Salvador
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What altitude is Mexico's central plateau?
What is 6,000 feet
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Which major mountain chain in Central America is located to the west?
What is Sierra Madre Occidental
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Magma that reaches the earth's surface is called what
What is lava
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Northern Mexico has what type of climate
What is Arid
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Which country has dense forests that limited settlement for many years?
What is Belize
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Broad valley of lakes inland
What is Nicaragua
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Most people live in which areas in Mexico?
What is Mountain valleys
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What is the name for the major mountain chain in the east?
What is the Sierra Madre Oriental
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What percentage of Honduras's land can be farmed?
What is 20%
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What is a device used to detect Earthquakes called?
What is a seismograph
300
What does annexation mean?
To add as an extra
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Hernando Cortes conquered which people group in Mexico?
What are the Aztecs
300
Where are most volcanoes found?
What is along the tectonic plate boundaries?
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What did the Panama Canal do in the 1900s?
It expanded global trade routes
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What makes Honduras's land very fertile?
What is Volcanic ash
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Half of the people in Guatemala are what?
What is Indigenous
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What determines the relative strength of an Earthquake?
What is the Richter Scale
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Which island has mountains and hills covering 1/4th of the country and has fertile valleys?
What is Cuba
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How many square miles of land did the US receive from Mexico and how much did it cost them?
What is 525,000 square miles and 15 million
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Why was the Panama Canal so important?
It shortened distance and time to get goods from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean
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Mountains south of Mexico City include what?
What is snow capped volcanoes
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Zone around the earth where the most earthquakes and volcanoes occur is called
What is the ring of fire
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What is significant about the following years: 1904, 1914, and 1999?
1904: US started building canal, 1914: Canal opened,1999: canal transferred from US to Panama
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