Latin American Culture
Population Geography
Economy and Government
Wild Card
Basic Geography
100
Most Latin Americans speak this language.
What is Spanish?
100
The number of babies born per 1,000 people in a country.
What is the birthrate?
100
The type of economy where people get to start businesses and customers decide whether the businesses fail or succeed.
What is free-enterprise, free market, or capitalism?
100
The percent of adults who can read.
What is a literacy rate?
100
The two continents that Latin America is on.
What is North and South America?
200
The religion most Latin Americans practice.
What is Catholicism (Christianity)?
200
The number of people who die per 1,000 people in a country.
What is mortality rate?
200
The type of government where people vote for their leaders and have rights.
What is democracy?
200
The Spanish conquered the Aztecs in what is now this country.
What is Mexico?
200
Give one example of assimilation or innovation?
What is adopting the culture of the country you live in or an invention?
300
The Europeans that conquered Brazil.
What is the Portuguese?
300
The number of babies under one that die out of 1,000 babies that are born.
What is the infant mortality rate?
300
The type of government where a King or Queen has complete control of the country and passes the power down to a decendent.
What is a Monarchy?
300
The language they speak in Brazil.
What is Portuguese?
300
The three hemispheres that Latin America is in.
What is Northern, Southern, and Western?
400
The two main ethnic groups in Latin America.
Who are the Native Americans (Aztecs, Incas, etc.) and Europeans (Spanish)?
400
The average number of people per square mile.
What is population density?
400
The type of government where a few people are in control and discriminate against people and punish dissenters.
What is an Oligarchy?
400
This is how you calculate the growth rate of a country.
What is the birth rate minus the mortality rate?
400
Latin America is in two of the major climate zones.
What is Tropical and Temperate?
500
The resource that Brazil had that was not gold or silver.
What is sugar?
500
The average number of babies a woman will have in her lifetime.
What is the fertility rate?
500
The type of economy where the government decides what businesses sell and what kinds of jobs people have.
What is a Command Economy?
500
The average amount of years someone lives in a given country.
What is life expectancy?
500
Give an example of cultural diffusion.
What is the spreading of ideas from one culture to another?
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