Physical Geography
What is Panama?
Dense jungles filled with biodiversity and are usually located in tropical regions.
The country that adopted the first Communist government in the Western Hemisphere.
What is Cuba?
The main, but not only, language spoken in Mexico.
What is Spanish?
Has substantially reduced the distance to transport goods from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean.
What is the Panama Canal?
Another name for a narrow land bridge that connects two regions.
What is an isthmus?
Air contaminated with various chemicals produces this.
What is acid rain?
The financial center of Mexico.
What is Mexico City?
The main religion of Latin America.
What is Roman Catholicism?
The movement of people into a new area.
What is migration?
This country dwells on a cluster of coral islands north of the Greater Antilles.
What is The Bahamas?
The washing of soil from construction and farming sites by rain that transfers the dirt to the ocean.
What is sedimentation?
Tourism that emphasizes exotic, natural environments.
What is ecotourism?
Local languages
What are dialects?
This city is a primate city in Mexico.
What is Mexico City?
A chain of smaller islands that form the eastern boundary of the Caribbean Sea.
What are the Lesser Antilles?
The mildest altitude and most comfortable zone, and where most people live.
What is tierra templada?
Manufacturing plants in Northern Mexico that are owned by foreign companies.
What are maquiladoras?
Religion that combines West Africa ancestor worship, magic, and Roman Catholicism.
What is voodoo?
Someone who lives illegally in an unoccupied building or on unused land.
What is a squatter?
The Bahamas, the Greater Antilles, and the Lesser Antilles combine to form these.
What are the West Indies?
Middle America forms this between North and South America.
What is a land bridge?
The term for a city that is the largest city in a country and is significantly larger than other cities in that country.
What is a primate city?
The blending of folk religion with Roman Catholicism.
What is syncretism?
People of mixed Spanish and Indian ancestry.