Geography
This river runs through the world’s largest rainforest.
What is the Amazon River?
This city struggles with air pollution caused by cars and factories.
What is Mexico City?
Most people in Latin America speak this language.
What is Spanish?
A government ruled by one leader with little citizen power is called this.
What is an autocracy?
The slave trade brought Africans to the Americas mainly to work on these.
What are plantations? (Sugar and tobacco)
These mountains stretch along the west coast of South America.
What are the Andes Mountains?
Cutting down trees in the Amazon is called this.
What is deforestation?
The main religion in Latin America today is...
What is Roman Catholicism?
A government where citizens can vote for their leaders is called this.
What is a democracy?
The Cuban Revolution was led by this man in 1959.
Who is Fidel Castro?
This man-made waterway connects the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
What is the Panama Canal?
What is one cause of air pollution in Mexico City?
What are car emissions, factories, or mountain location?
Brazil’s main language is different because of which European country’s influence?
What is Portugal?
The leader of Cuba is not freely chosen by the people. What type of government is this?
What is an autocratic government?
What was the Cuban Missile Crisis?
A 13-day standoff in 1962 between the U.S. and the Soviet Union after the Soviets placed nuclear missiles in Cuba, almost causing war.
Name two countries in Latin America that speak Portuguese and Spanish.
What are Brazil (Portuguese) and Mexico (Spanish)?
What is one major effect of deforestation in Brazil?
What is loss of animal habitats or climate change?
Why did the Spanish and Portuguese look to West Africa for labor?
They already had immunity to many European diseases.
Citizens in Mexico and Brazil can vote for their president. These countries have this type of democracy.
What is a presidential democracy?
What is life like in Cuba under Castro’s communist regime?
The government controls most parts of life — including jobs, media, and the economy; citizens have limited freedom and few choices in elections.
This dry region in Chile is one of the driest places on Earth.
What is the Atacama Desert?
Why is the rainforest important to the whole world?
It helps produce oxygen and absorb carbon dioxide.
How did the mix of Indigenous, African, and European cultures shape Latin America’s identity today?
It created a blended culture seen in language, religion, food, music, and traditions —
Explain one difference between how citizens in Cuba and Brazil participate in government.
Cuba: limited or no choice; Brazil: free elections and voting rights.
What type of trade barrier did the U.S. place on Cuba after the revolution?
What is an embargo (a ban on trade)?