Important Physical Properties
This important trade route in South America contains 20 percent of the earth's fresh water supply.
What is the AMAZON RIVER
These three things affect where people live and work
What are location, climate and natural resources?
This type of trade block completely bans all trade with another country
What is an embargo?
Cuba, Venezuela and China all have this kind of economic system
What is a command economy?
JFK (US) and Nikita Krushchev (USSR) were the leaders during an event resulted from the Cuban decision to allow the USSR to build and maintain a missile launching complex on Cuban soil
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
The Trans-Amazon Highway, the moving of the capital to Brasilia, and Eco-Tourism are all developments in this South American location.
What is the Amazon Rainforest?
People in Brazil, Cuba and Venezuela choose to live in these areas because of more job opportunity and access to resources
What are urban areas?
This country's government requires citizens from the age of 18-70 to vote in elections
What is Brazil?
This country provided aid to Cuba after the United States cut off trade during the rise of Communism.
What is the Soviet Union
What are diseases?
Air pollution in Mexico city has become an issue due to this mountain range keeping polluted air inside.
What are the Sierra Madre Mountains?
This term refers to a raw material or agricultural product that is bought and sold. Examples are sugarcane, coffee and tobacco
What is a Commodity?
These four things make up factors of production.
Land, labor, capital and entrepreneurs
This term best relates to the illegal smuggling of people or products.
What is trafficking?
The United States eased trade restrictions with this country in 2016
These two countries are the only landlocked countries in South America
What are Bolivia and Paraguay
In this type of economy, both the government and the citizens have a say-so in what types of businesses they can have. Supply and demand drive this economy
What is a mixed economy?
Brazil and Mexico's government has a system in which the states and the central government work together.
What is a federal system of government?
This term is a result of the push factors that have caused Latin Americans to flee their country.
What is migration?
Fidel Castro and Fulgencio Batista are both key players in this Caribbean Island's revolt.
What is the Cuban Revolution
This issue has caused the most deforestation in the Amazon Rainforest.
What is Cattle Ranching?
There is a correlation between this and GDP. The lower the __________ the lower the GDP and vice versa.
What is literacy rate?
This term describes the process of working with and using goods and ideas from different parts of the world
What is globalization?
Limited access to healthcare/education and lack of jobs all contribute to this issue
What is poverty?
Who is Toussiant L'Overture?