Latin America Geography
Latin America Histrory
Latin America Random
Latin America Economy
Latin America Terms
100
What is Brazil?
100
This trade introduced new foods to both Latin America and Europe. Latin America and Europe also traded animals during this trade, but the most important was Latin America getting horses from Europe.
What is the Colombian Exchange?
100
This is the dominant religion in Latin American.
What is Catholicism?
100
This is a way countries are ranked by the UN based on life expectancy, average years of schooling, and average income of a person.
What is the Human Development Index (HDI)?
100
The largest river in South America.
What is the Amazon River?
200
Located in the northern hemisphere, this countries main natural resource is oil and has issues with air pollution.
What is Mexico?
200
Eli Whitney invented this.
What is the Cotton Gin?
200
The Aztec Empire prospered in this country
What is Northern Mexico?
200
This feature in a Central American country lets ships pass between the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans.
What is the Panama canal?
200
An economic system/government where private ownership is largely forbidden and all industries and resources are under control of the government.
What is Communism?
300
Located in the northern hemisphere and is the largest Caribbean Island, most people in this country live in urban areas because the government owns the farms.
What is Cuba?
300
This is the spread of beliefs and social activities.
What is Cultural Diffusion?
300
The Mayan Empire prospered in this country.
What is Southern Mexico?
300
This type of economy used in Brazil is based on competition.
What is a Market Economy?
300
The U.S. is described as a "melting pot" due to what term.
What is immigration?
400
This mountain range is the largest in Latin America and is the result of the Ring of Fire.
What is the Andes Mountains?
400
This is something the Aztecs and Mayans both did NOT have.
What is a Standing Army/Military Forces?
400
These are ways people change their environments.
What is building houses, building roads, and planting crops?
400
Immigrants move to a country because of...
What is a better paying jobs, education opportunities, and higher standard of living
400
Highways, Streets, and Roads, Bridges, Mass Transit, Airports, and Airways
What is infrastructure?
500
These are geographic features that make up most of South America.
Amazon Basin and Andes Mountains
500
This is why cultures in the Caribbean vary widely. (2 reasons)
What is the Columbian Exchange and Colonization?
500
This was a result of people coming to the Americas from Europe, Asia, and Africa.
What is exposure to disease that lead to death?
500
The US made does not trade with this country because they have a communist government and a command economy.
What is Cuba?
500
The process by which large numbers of people become permanently concentrated in relatively small areas, forming cities.
What is Urbanization?