Geography
It covers most of Brazil
What is the Amazon Rainforest?
Movement of crops, livestock, and diseases between the Old and New Worlds
What was the Columbian Exchange?
Citizens can protest, run for political office, and vote
What is citizen participation?
1. what to produce?
2. how to produce?
3. whom to produce for?
What are the three economic questions that countries try to answer?
A passageway that connects the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans
What is the Panama Canal?
Nearly half of the Native American population died
What affect did diseases have on Native people in the New World (North America)?
presidential and parliamentary
What are types of democracy?
customs and traditions
How do traditional societies answer the THREE economic questions?
These mountains trap air pollution in central Mexico
What are the Sierra Madre Mountains?
Nearly 3/4 of the people in Latin America speak Spanish and are Catholic.
What affect did Spanish colonization have on Latin America?
A government structure in which citizen participation is low
What is an autocracy?
None, these economies do not exist in any country.
What countries have pure command or pure market economies?
A shallow part of the Atlantic Ocean
What is the Caribbean Sea?
Well, their colonizers spoke Portuguese as well.
Why do most Brazilians speak Portuguese?
What is a parliamentary democracy?
Jayden takes advantage of a state scholarship that will pay for him to attend aeronautical college.
What is an example of investment in human capital?
Well, its because of the harsh, arid climate zone in this area.
Why is the population density low along the Mexico-U.S. border?
The transatlantic slave trade brought millions of Africans to Latin America, never to return to their native countries in Africa.
Why is there a heavy influence of African culture in Latin America?
Presidential democracies are used in these TWO Latin American countries.
Both Mexico and Brazil use what type of democracy?
They increase a country's GDP by producing new goods and services
How do entrepreneurs affect a country's economy?