Latin America Geography
Latin America History
War on Drugs
Cuban History
Latin America Terms
100
This country was colonized by Portugal and has issues with deforestation of the rain forest.
What is Brazil?
100
This colonizing country introduced the Spanish language and Catholicism to Latin America
What is Spain?
100
This has been unsuccessful due to Government corruption, Cartels keep moving, and Brutal violence.
What is the War on Drugs?
100
This country stayed involved in Cuba's development and was hated by Fidel Castro.
What is the US?
100
The largest river by discharge volume of water in the world, and the disputed longest river in the world.
What is the Amazon River?
200
This is the country Fidel Castro was exiled to after his failed attempt to overthrow Batista.
What is Mexico?
200
This colonizing country introduced the Portuguese language to Brazil.
What is Portugal?
200
In order to escape the cycle of poverty, many families leave the region in order to find better economic opportunities in other places (like the US).
What is Migration?
200
Former lawyer, organized rebel fighters to overthrow Cuba’s leader, exiled for 7 years, dictator of Cuba until his death, brought Communism to Cuba
Who is Fidel Castro?
200
This word describes the huge number of plant and animal species in Latin America
What is biodiversity?
300
The largest Caribbean Island, most people in this country live in urban areas because the government owns the farms since Fidel Castro took over in the late 1950's.
What is Cuba?
300
The location where Europeans in the sixteenth century found a cheap labor source for work in the New World.
What is West Africa?
300
This region includes Columbia, Peru, and Bolivia and is a major area for farming, manufacturing, and trafficking illegal drugs like cocaine.
What is the Andean Region?
300
While there were good intentions, Land, businesses, & factories became property of the state, churches were closed, media outlets were shut down, individual rights were taken away, etc. were a result of this.
What is the Cuban Revolution?
300
This a term for why people LEAVE their home country
What is a "push factor"?
400
This mountain range is the largest in Latin America.
What is the Andes Mountains?
400
This region includes culture, languages, and religions of Spain and Portugal.
What is Latin America?
400
People join in on the illegal drug trade in order to make money to provide for their families and this group does not let them leave.
What is the Cartel?
400
Castro allowed Soviet Union to place missiles in Cuba that were directed towards the US, could have led to WWIII
What is the Cubam Missile Crisis?
400
Limited food and housing resources, lack of jobs, limited educational opportunities lead to this.
What is poverty?
500
These are the TWO geographic features that make up most of South America.
Amazon Basin/Rainforest and Andes Mountains
500
The pattern of trade between Europe, Africa and the Americas that included the enslavement of people between 1400 and 1800.
What is Triangle Trade?
500
This Latin American country is where Encanto takes place
What is Colombia?
500
Over 500,000 Cubans fleed to this location in order to escape Castro’s harsh policies.
What is the US?
500
This desert is one of the driest places on Earth
What is the Atacama Desert?