This country is the world's largest consumer market for drugs.
What is the United States?
100
This is the process whereby natural forests are cleared through logging and/or burning, either to use the timber or to replace the area for alternative uses.
What is deforestation?
100
This is the economic term for someone who makes something.
What is a producer?
100
In which hemisphere (eastern or western) is Latin America located?
What is western?
100
This is the largest country (in area) in South America.
What is Brazil?
200
People from this country control many drug routes from the Andean villages.
What is Mexico?
200
This area of South America is in danger due to deforestation.
What is the rain forest?
200
This is the economic term for someone who buys something.
What is a consumer?
200
This type of location is being used in the example, "Latin America lies between the Pacific, Atlantic, and Caribbean."
What is relative location?
200
Mexico is located to this direction from Central America.
What is northwest?
300
This plant is used to make cocaine.
What is coca?
300
This is the process of getting sap from a tree.
What is tapping?
300
People in a market economy are always trying to find ways to maximize this.
What is profit?
300
These two major physical features in South America rank 2nd in their respective geographic categories.
What are the Andes Mountains and the Amazon River?
300
This region connects Mexico to South America.
What is Central America?
400
This is the term for an association of manufacturers or suppliers who work to maintain high prices with little competition.
What is a cartel?
400
This is the term used by loggers to remove all trees in a particular area.
What is clear-cutting?
400
This is the source or supply from which benefit is produced. Loggers, tappers, and ranchers all use these (as well as many other people).
What are resources?
400
Knowing the absolute location of these is important when studying why populations settle where they do.
What are major cities/capitals?
400
This is the French Territory in South America.
What is French Guiana?
500
According to Rodrigo Canales, the yearly revenue of the illegal drug market is equal to that of this company.
What is Microsoft?
500
This South American country is suffering from a high rate of illegal logging.
What is Peru?
500
Everyone with an interest in the rain forest wants to have their needs continually met (trees, way of life, furniture, etc.), also know as this.
What is sustainability?
500
These four regions make up Latin America.
What are Mexico, Central America, South America, and the Caribbean?
500
This is why the area is called Latin America.
What is because they speak romance languages that derived from Latin?