Vocabulario
(Words to Know)
(Words to Know)
the spread of one culture's practices, beliefs, and/or items, like food, music, or tools.
What is Cultural Diffusion?
The country of Haiti shares the island of Hispanola with this spanish speaking country.
What is The Dominican Republic?
the 2nd longest river on Earth.
What is the Amazon River?
The Columbian Exchange included the movement of crops, people and ___________.
What are livestock/animals?
This is the official language of Brazil.
What is Portugese?
the process that is caused by a specific landform that affects the wind flow from one area to another
On the map of South America this is the longest country on the Western coast.
What is Chile?
Latin America is located in this climate zone.
What is a tropical climate zone?
What are potatoes?
This religion is practiced among Latin Americans more than any other.
What is Roman Catholicism?
This term is used to define the movement of people to a new area/location.
What is immigration?
This country is the 5th most populated country in the world and the most populated in Latin America.
What is Brazil?
The Incas are known for this advanced technology in agriculture called ____________.
What is terrace farming?
The indigenous people of the Americas fell victim to these 2 diseases.
This cultural element is what sets Brazil and Haiti apart from the rest of Latin America.
Language
This term is used to define the coming together of cultural traditions and values.
What is cultural convergence?
This country is home to the driest desert in the world, the Atacama Desert.
What is Chile?
The Itaipu Dam powers its surrounding areas by using this water source.
What is the Parana River?
The Columbian Exchange was the movement of commodities from the Old World to the New World. That included these countries _____________.
What is The Americas, Europe, Asia and Africa?
The cultural landscape of the Spanish Caribbean Islands is heavily influenced by these 2 cultures.
This word is used to describe the ability for diseases to spread.
What is communicability?
This country was colonized by the French.
French - Guiana
This desert is considered the driest in the world, so much that it is used to mimic the planet Mars in many sci-fi films.
What is the Atacama Desert?
These were the first 3 countries to colonize Latin America.
Spain, Portugal, and the Dutch.
Name 3 Latin dances.
Samba, Salsa, Tango.