Forms of Government
A government where God or a divine being is the ultimate authority.
Answer: What is a theocracy?
The spread of culture from one place to another (why sushi exists in Texas and why tacos rule the world).
Answer: What is cultural diffusion?
The largest rainforest on the planet, home to 10% of the world’s species.
Answer: What is the Amazon Rainforest?
The European country that colonized Mexico.
Answer: What is Spain?
The largest country in Latin America, taking up almost half of South America.
Answer: What is Brazil?
A system where power is passed down through a royal family.
Answer: What is a monarchy?
The beliefs, customs, and traditions that make every country unique.
Answer: What is culture?
The longest mountain range in the world, stretching from Colombia to Chile.
Answer: What are the Andes Mountains?
The main language spoken in Mexico.
Answer: What is Spanish?
The continent where most of Latin America is located.
Answer: What is South America?
One person takes power and doesn’t share it, like a villain in a superhero movie.
Answer: What is a dictatorship?
The native people of a region, like the Maya, Aztec, and Inca.
Answer: Who are indigenous groups?
The second-longest river in the world and the longest in South America.
Answer: What is the Amazon River?
The reason Europeans colonized Latin America.
Answer: What are wealth and resources?
A festival in Brazil known for its parades, samba, and elaborate costumes.
Answer: What is Carnival?
A government where citizens elect leaders to make decisions for them.
Answer: What is a representative democracy?
The massive exchange of plants, animals, diseases, and culture between the Eastern and Western Hemispheres after Columbus’ voyages.
Answer: What is the Columbian Exchange?
A man-made shortcut that connects the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
Answer: What is the Panama Canal?
The Spanish conquerors who took over indigenous civilizations like the Aztecs.
Answer: Who were the conquistadors?
The Caribbean country with a communist government since 1959.
Answer: What is Cuba?
A government ruled by a small group of people, like if the student council secretly took over the school.
Answer: What is an oligarchy?
A major cultural tradition from the Aztecs that is still celebrated today and inspired the movie Coco.
Answer: What is Día de los Muertos?
The biggest threat to the Amazon Rainforest today.
Answer: What is deforestation?
The ancient civilization that built Machu Picchu.
Answer: Who were the Inca?
A major economic activity in the Caribbean that brings in billions of dollars.
Answer: What is tourism?