Vocabulary
The narrow strip of land with water on each side that connects two large areas of land?
What is Isthmus
The peninsula associated with Mexico that runs into the Gulf of Mexico?
What is Yucatan Peninsula
This climate zone goes from sea level to 2,500 ft above sea level. Is the warmest area.
What is Tierra Caliente
The name of the earliest civilizations in Mesoamerica.
What is the Olmecs and Mayans
The name of the 1898 conflict over the Caribbean Islands.
What is the Spanish-American War
The act of one nation taking control of an area and dominates its government, economy, and society.
What is Colonialism
The Mountain Range that runs alongside the western side of Mexico?
What is Sierra Madre Occidental
The climate zone that is a temperature land where most of the people live.
What is Tierra Templada
The Religion that was taught to the natives and slaves by the Europeans.
What is Roman Catholic? (Catholicism)
The 1962 threat of nuclear war between the Soviet Union and the United States.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis
The name of the knights, soldiers and explorers of the Spanish and Portuguese Empire.
What is Conquistadors
The largest country in Latin America.
What is Brazil
The climate zone where only certain crops or livestock can be raised here because of the chilly nights.
What is Tierra Fria
The two LARGE empires in Central and South America when the Spanish first appeared
What is Aztecs and Incans
The American troops landed here to try and overthrow Cuba?
What is the Bay of Pigs
The forcible overthrow of a government or social order, in favor of a new system.
What is Revolution
The number of islands attributed to the Bahamas?
What is 3,000
(Main Word)
What is Tropical Storms
The man made structure that cuts a path through Panama that created a major impact on trade in Latin America
What is the Panama Canal
The name of the person that took over as dictator of Cuba in 1959.
Who is Fidel Castro
The movement of animals, plants, diseases, and people between the Old World and this New World was called this.
What is Columbian Exchange
The four largest islands in the Caribbean, Puerto Rico, Hispaniola, Cuba, and Jamaica.
What is the Greater Antilles
The name of the moist, broad leaf vegetation that covers most of the Amazon Basin in South America
What is the Amazon Rainforest
The factors that helped the Spanish take over the Aztecs and Incas even though the Spanish were outnumbered.
What is weaponry, diseases, civil war
The name of the Soviet Navy officer credited with preventing a Soviet nuclear strike during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Such an attack would have likely caused a major nuclear response.
Who is Vasily Arkhipov