Geography
This is a country in Latin America.
What is _____?
This factor convinces people to leave where they currently live.
What is a push factor?
This bay is famous for a failed attempt at overthrowing a communist government.
What is the Bay of Pigs?
This is a piece of information based on the truth of what actually happened.
What is a fact?
This term is what happens when trees are over-harvested, leading to less trees in wooded areas with significant environmental impacts.
What is deforestation?
This country is less than 100 miles from South Florida.
What is Cuba?
This factor leads to people moving to a specific location.
What is a pull factor?
This major conflict in Cuban history was the main event that pushed nearly 250,000 Cubans to leave Cuba between 1959-62.
What is the Cuban Revolution?
This word describes when a piece of information is not factually based, but instead includes someone's personal judgment.
What is bias or opinion?
This is the largest rainforest in the world.
What is the Amazon Rainforest?
This is the only country in South America that speaks Portuguese.
What is Brazil?
This word refers to when a country makes an official order to stop trade with another country.
What is an embargo?
One of the key events of the Cold War took place when the USSR helped arm a Latin American country, which caused increased tensions between neighboring countries in this particular year.
What is 1962?
This is the term for something that gives you information on a topic.
What is a source?
This is the largest mountain range in South America, spanning over 5,000 miles.
What is the Andes?
These two geographical features contribute to Latin American trade, transportation, and fishing.
What are coastlines and rivers?
This is a type of source often written by historians describing a historical event.
What is a secondary source?
The CIA backed an attempt to overthrow the new communist regime in Cuba in this specific year.
What is 1961?
These are the three parts of a good ELA or Social Studies constructed response.
What are claim, evidence, and explaining?
This city in Latin America sits in a valley, making air pollution a continuous and urgent problem for those who live here.
What is Mexico City?
Many people confuse these two terms, ____ and ____. The first refers to Spanish speaking countries only, while the other encompasses all North and South American countries that speak other Romance languages along with Spanish, such as French and Portuguese.
What are hispanic and Latin America?
This refers to a source written while a historical event occurs, and is used most often by historians.
What is a primary source?
Many Cubans moved away from Cuba in the 1950s and 1960s. Most Cuban immigrants settled in this country.
What is the US?
What are context clues?
Rivers in Latin America have become more dirty and have record-low water levels because of these TWO factors.
What are pollution and drought?