Latin America Geography
Latin America History
Latin America Random
Latin America Environment
Latin America Terms
100
This is the biggest country in Latin America
What is Brazil?
100
This colonizing country introduced the Spanish language and Catholicism to Latin America
What is Spain?
100
This is the dominant religion in Latin America
What is Catholicism/Christianity?
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?
100
Helped economy in South America by increasing trade with members, decreasing trade with non members, and lowering tariffs
What is Mercosur?
200
Most people in South America live where?
What is the Coast?
200
This country is known for the development of suspension bridges and stone buildings
What is Peru?
200
Name for a person who came from Europe to conquer the Americas.
What is a conquistador?
200
This type of farming involves growing crops on elevated rows of land.
What is terrace farming?
200
These Three G's were the most common reasons European explorers came to Latin America
What is God, Glory, and Gold.
300
This mountain range is the largest in Latin America.
What is the Andes Mountains?
300
This region of Latin America contains Costa Rica, Belize, and Panama.
What is Central America?
300
These TWO European countries colonized Latin America
What are Spain and Portugal?
300
Latin America makes a lot of money from this, another word for people visiting the area
What is tourism?
300
This term describes the government of Cuba
What is communist/totalitarian/unlimited?
400
The largest Caribbean Island, most people in this country live in urban areas because the government owns the farms.
What is Cuba?
400
A trade route between the United States, Europe, and Africa
What is the triangular trade?
400
The term refers to a person from a "Mixed Ancestry"
What is mestizo?
400
The Amazon Rainforest is facing this problem due to logging, cattle ranching, farming, etc.
What is deforestation?
400
What are the three regions of Latin America?
South America, Central America/Mexico, Caribbean
500
These are the TWO geographic features that make up most of South America.
Amazon Basin/Rainforest and Andes Mountains
500
These were the three major ancient civilizations that shaped Latin America.
Who are the Inca, Maya, Aztec?
500
This was built to connect the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. It was built where it is because it is the narrowest piece of land in Central America.
What is an the Panama Canal?
500
These are two of the key resources in Latin America?
What is Oil, Coffee, Copper, Timber
500
South and Central America are affected by this on the right (eastern side) of the continent.
South America is affected by this on the left (western side) of the continent.
What are tropical storms and earthquakes?