Tourism
Culture/ethnicity
Colonialsim
Misc
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100
Provides jobs, brings money into the region
What is one of the pros of tourism in the Caribbean?
100
A person with one white parent and one black parent
What is a mulatto?
100
The policy or practice of acquitting full or partial poitical control over another country, occupying it with settlers, and exploiting it economically
What is colonialism?
100
Factories built by foreign companies (primarily from the U.S.) where they assemble products and export them back to the U.S. and other places
What are maquiladoras?
100
North American Free Trade Agreement
What is NAFTA?
200
puts communites in debt to build infrastructure etc, crime, resentment of the locals towards rich tourists, pollutes the environment,
What are the negative effects of tourism in Latin America?
200
A person with one native American parent and one white parent
What is a mestizo?
200
is the tendency of businesses, technologies, or philosophies to spread throughout the world, or the process of making this happen
What is globalization?
200
flooding, earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanoes, hurricanes, drought
What are natural hazards of Latin America?
300
small scale tourism that focuses on preserving the environment and culture of a place
What is ecotourism?
300
Mexico, Peru, Columbia, Venezuela, Chile, Ecuador, Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador
Where are mestizos found in large numbers in Latin America?
300
bad governments, social oppression, lack of industrialization, poor infrastructure, tried to extinguish existing cultures
What are some negative impacts of colonialism?
300
a canal about 50 miles (80 km) long, across the Isthmus of Panama, that connects the Atlantic and Pacific oceans
What is the Panama Canal?
300
oil, fish, shrimp, tin, zinc, copper, grain, beef, soybeans, animal hides, precious gems, gold, silver, natural gas, uranium, sugar, aluminum
What are some of the exports of Latin America?
400
Brazil, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica
Where are mulattoes found in Latin America?
400
Spain and Portugal
What are the main European powers that colonized Latin America?
400
Lots of people died building it, destroyed some of the natural habitat for plants and animals, 50,000 people lost their homes
What are the negative effects of the Panama Canal?
400
Andes Mtns, Amazon River, Atlantic Ocean, Pacific Ocean, Caribbean Sea, Yucatan Peninsula
What are some major landforms of Latin America?
500
Brings money into the local economy, provides jobs, brings awareness about environmental and cultural issues in an area
What are benefits of ecotourism?
500
Spanish and Portuguese
What are the two main languages spoken in Latin America?
500
Area of the Caribbean called this to distinguish it from the East Indies
What is the West Indies?
500
Not enough jobs, bad governments, social/racial discrimination, lack of education, not enough industry
What are the reasons so many people live in poverty in Latin America?
500
Tropical wet, tropical wet-dry, Semi-arid, desert, Mediterranean, Marine West coast, Humid Subtropical
What are climates of Latin America?
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