Vocabulary
Geography
Central America
Caribbean Islands
Fun Facts
100
Regional variety of a language
What is dialect?
100
Most Caribbean Islands were formed by this.
What is volcanoes/volcanic eruptions?
100
The main language spoken in Central America today.
What is Spanish?
100
The capital of Cuba.
What is Havana?
100
The official language of Belize.
What is English?
200
a self-governing territory associated with another country, E.g. Puerto Rico to the U.S.
What is commonwealth?
200
Central America is a _____________ or small piece of land connecting to two larger land areas.
What is isthmus?
200
The name of the country that controlled most of the region till the 1500s.
What is Spain?
200
Name the island countries that are part of the Greater Antilles in the Caribbean.
What are Cuba, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, Hispaniola (Dominican Republic and Haiti)?
200
The practice of using an area's natural environment to attract tourists.
What is ecotourism?
300
a conflict between two or more groups within a country
What is civil war?
300
The Bahamas is a well known ____________, consisting of about 700 islands.
What is archipelago?
300
The U.S.-based United Fruit Company controlled most of the ______________ production.
What is banana?
300
The poorest country in the Americas.
What is Haiti?
300
Dishonest governments have caused violence, which many Haitians have tried to escape by becoming ________________.
What are refugees?
400
people of mixed European and Indian ancestry
What is mestizos?
400
The _____________________ is the body of water that separates the Caribbean Islands from the Central America.
What is Caribbean Sea?
400
Name the countries that fought a civil war.
What are Nicaragua, El Salvador and Guatemala?
400
A description of Cuba's government.
What is a Communist state started by Fidel Castro, where the government controls and monitors daily life?
400
Most of the Caribbean Islands rely on __________ for their income.
What is tourism?
500
organization owned by its members and operated for their benefit, like the farms in Cuba
What is cooperative?
500
The amount of countries in Central America and their names.
What is 7 and they are Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Costa Rica, and Panama?
500
The country that has been more peaceful than most of the other countries.
What is Costa Rica?
500
A dialect spoken by many in the Caribbean Islands.
What is Creole?
500
Two factors make the region a good place to grow crops.
What are volcanic soil and warm climate?
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