Latin America Geography
Latin America History
Latin America Random
Latin America Environment
Latin America Terms
100
This country has issues with deforestation of the rain forest.
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?
100
This city is one of the most polluted in the world
What is Mexico City?
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?
200
Latin America has vertical climate zones, meaning the climate changes drastically as this increases.
What is elevation?
200
This was the largest empire ever in the Americas
Who are the Inca?
200
The Aztec Empire prospered in this country
What is Mexico?
200
Latin America makes a lot of money from this, another word for people visiting the area
What is tourism?
200
What does NAFTA stand for?
North American Free Trade Agreement
300
The largest Caribbean Island, most people in this country live in urban areas because the government owns the farms.
What is Cuba?
300
Catholics set these buildings up to offer protection and pastoral/conversion care
What are missions?
300
What is the name of someone who is of mixed Spanish and Native American Heritage?
Who are the Mestizos?
300
The Amazon Rainforest is facing this problem due to logging, cattle ranching, farming, etc.
What is deforestation?
300
This a term for why people LEAVE their home country
What is a "push factor"?
400
This mountain range is the longest in world and is located on the eastern edge of the Ring of Fire.
What is the Andes Mountains?
400
This region of Latin America contains Costa Rica and Guatemala?
What is Central America?
400
Located in Central America, it connects the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean
What is the Panama Canal?
400
Used by native peoples and today by poor farmers in the Amazon Basin
What is Slash- and-burn?
400
A place where important areas are spread often known as heartland or place of a culture's origin is called:
What is cultural hearth?
500
These are the TWO geographic features that make up most of South America.
Amazon Basin/Rainforest and Andes Mountains
500
The Aztec city that flourished between A.D. 1325 and 1521, it is where Mexico City now stands
What is Tenochtitlan?
500
The "mother mountain range" of Mexico
What is Sierra Madre?
500
This area of grassland has rich soil, used for cattle and wheat
What are Pampas?
500
The basic support system needed to keep an economy going, including power , communications, transportation, water, sanitation and education systems.
What is Infrastructure?