Economy West Indies
Location/Climate West Indies
History and Culture West Indies
Central American Economy
History and People of Central America
100
The main economic activities in the West Indies
What are tourism and farming?
100
The West Indies lie in the
What are the Tropics?
100

A special group of Guatemalans who speak Spanish and practice European ways. 

What are Ladino's? 
100
The economy of Central American depends on these two processes for economic growth
What is farming and harvesting wood from the rain forest?
100

What are the three main countries we focused on for Central America? 

What are Costa Rica, Panama, and Guatemala? 

200
Many laborers work on plantations that grow
What are commercial crops?
200
Pleasant temperatures provide the island with this type of climate
What is tropical?
200
Settled the first permanent European settlement in the West Indies
Who are the Spaniards?
200
Wealthy people and companies own this type of commercial farm that grow crops for sale
What is a plantation?
200
Native Americans who flourished in the rain forests
Who are the Mayans?
300
Wealthy landowners grow crops such as
What are sugarcane, coffee, bananas and tobacco?
300
The volcanic soil in the highlands is
What is rich?
300
The first West Indian country to win their independence from European rule
What is Haiti?
300
Small plots of land where poor farmers grow only enough food to feed their families
What are subsistence farms?
300
A major celebration held before Lent
What is Carnival?
400
Crops grown to sell and not to be eaten
What are commercial crops?
400
Many West Indian islands are part of an underwater chain of mountains formed by
What are volcanoes?
400
About 60% of West Indians live in
What are cities and villages?
400

What makes Panama one of the major crossroads of the world? 

What is the Panama Canal? 

400
Today each country in Central America has a democratic government. Six countries elect presidents as the head of the government called
What is a republic?
500
A mineral used to make aluminum mined in Jamaica
What is bauxite?
500

For half of the year the West Indies are threatened by big storms, what type of storm is it? 

What is a hurricane? 

500

This country has one of the highest literacy rates in the world.  

What is Costa Rica? 
500
This country enjoys the highest standard of living in Central America
What is Costa Rica?
500
Most Central Americans follow this religion
What is Roman Catholic?
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