Latin American Geography
Economic Factors
African Geography
Colonialism
Vocabulary
100
This is the largest country in South America and contains the Amazon Basin.
What is Brazil?
100
This is the name given to a country that is still growing and developing its economy and government.
What is a developing nation?
100
This country is home to the mouth of the Nile River and belongs to the Middle East region.
What is Egypt?
100
This is when a nation takes control of another nation's government to gain its resources and more power.
What is imperialism?
100
The widespread trade of animals, foods, human populations (including slaves), communicable diseases, and ideas between the Eastern and Western hemispheres that occurred after Christopher Columbus landed in the Americas.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
200
This is the narrow country along the west coast of South America.
What is Chile?
200
This is the name given to a country that has a stable economy and government and a high standard of living.
What is a developed nation?
200
This is the largest desert in the world found in northern Africa.
What is the Sahara Desert?
200
This is the nation that colonized most of South America.
What is Spain?
200
Leader who was freed from jail by South African president Willem de Klerk after apartheid was ended in the country in 1989.

Who is Nelson Mandela?

300
This snake-shaped country connects Central America to South America.
What is Panama?
300
These are countries in the process of changing from one type of economy to another.
What are countries in transition?
300

This is the home of the tribal people group the Masai, and it is located on the Indian Ocean.

What is Kenya?

300
The religion AND the language of the majority of Mexico's citizens.
What are Roman Catholic and Spanish?
300
This is the total value of the goods and services produced in a country during a given time period as equally divided to each individual.
What is GDP per capita?
400
Bolivia's economy is negatively impacted by this geographic factor, which makes Bolivia different than the majority of other South American countries.

What is being landlocked?

400
This is the type of economy where raw materials are converted into products by manufacturing or processing and sold for a profit.
What is a secondary economy?
400
This is the tallest mountain in Africa whose name means shining mountain.
What is Mount Kilimanjaro?
400
Gold and diamonds are the main exports of this former Dutch colony.
What is South Africa?
400

An organization of black Africans in South Africa that opposed Apartheid.

What is the African National Congress?

500

Two reasons why trade is easier in South America than in Africa.

What is fewer landlocked countries, bigger rivers, and more port cities?

500
This type of economy is the one that makes its money mainly through service industries.
What is a tertiary economy?
500

This country touches the Atlantic Ocean, was once called the Gold Coast, and is just east of Cote d'Ivoire.

What is Ghana?

500
This approximate number of Africans were forced into slavery by Europeans and sent to North and South America.
What is 10 to 12 million Africans.
500
A term that measures the standard of living in a country. It includes 3 things: the adult literacy rate, life expectancy, and GDP per capita.
What is the Human Development Index (HDI)?
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