Geography
The second largest river in the world, flows primarily through Brazil in South America.
What is Amazon River?
Mexico and Brazil both have this type of government system.
What is a presidential democracy?
All the goods and services produced in a calendar year.
What is Gross Domestic Product?
The incident when the Soviet Union was building a launching pad for nuclear weapons.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Ethnic group mixed with Europeans and African American ancestry?
What are mulattoes?
A waterway built through the isthmus of Latin America to allow ships to travel easily between the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean.
What is Panama Canal?
Cuba has what type of government system?
What is an autocracy?
The trade barrier that a tax is placed on imported goods,
What is tariff?
The place where Europeans found cheap labor to work in the New World.
What is Africa?
Who is Spain?
The driest place on earth. Located at a high elevation along the coast of Chile, the average temperature in this desert is actually chilly.
What is the Atacama Desert?
This country's citizens have very few freedoms.
What is Cuba?
This Latin America country is closest to command economy.
Who is Cuba?
The ruler prior to the Cuban Revolution?
Who is Batista?
The most predominant religion in Latin America.
What is Roman Catholic?
This ocean borders Mexico on the west.
What is Pacific Ocean?
Mexico and Brazil both have this type of legislature.
What is bicameral?
The level of wealth and material comfort available in a country.
What is standard of living?
The event where Castro's army was able to defeat hundreds of CIA trained exiles.
What is Bay of Pigs?
The Spanish word meaning Dictator.
Los Caudillos
A mountain range in Mexico with two major chains. They surround the most populated city, Mexico City.
What are the Sierra Madre Mountains?
Brazil and Mexico both have this type of leader?
What is President?
A trade barrier that sets a limit on the amount of goods that can be imported.
What is quota?
The exchanging of goods between the Old and New World (plants, animals, and diseases)
What is Colombian Exchange?
The only country in Latin America with the official language is Portuguese.
What is Brazil?