This is the world's longest mountain chain and the region's tallest.
What are the Andes?
100
This single city is an example of a primate city, capital city, and mega city in Mexico.
What is Mexico City?
100
This is the trade of plants, animals, and diseases between Europe and the Americas.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
100
This is a Brazilian slum or shantytown.
What is a Favela?
100
Communication technology can be censored in some countries or just limited in many regions, especially in _______ areas, but is considered adequate in urban areas.
What is rural?
200
This is an area of fertile soil surrounded by the Sierra Madres.
What is the Mexican Plateau?
200
This is the indigenous group native to the Yucatan Peninsula.
Who are the Maya?
200
Voodoo and Santeria are examples of the vocabulary term.
What is syncretism?
200
This is an Argentinian cowboy.
What is a gaucho?
200
Soybeans, coffee, sugarcane, and bananas are examples.
What is a cash crop?
300
This is the second longest river in the world, but the world's largest river ( 2 million square miles of water!)
What is the Amazon?
300
This is the indigenous group native to central Mexico.
Who are the Aztec?
300
Due to limited space and an expanding population, this region has the largest population density of Latin America.
What are the Caribbean Islands?
300
This is the indigenous group centered in the Andes Mountains.
Who are the Inca?
300
These are large corporate farms that grow cash crops for sale.
What are latifundias?
400
This is the deforestation process of cutting down trees and burning them to add nitrogen to the soil.
What is slash and burn agriculture?
400
This pact opened up more exports/imports between Mexico, Canada, and the United States.
What is NAFTA?
400
Many people are moving into _____ because of unemployment and lack of agricultural lands in rural areas.
What are cities or urban areas?
400
Many educated and skilled South Americans are moving away from the continent to find better paying jobs. This phenomenon is known by what vocabulary term?
What is a brain drain?
400
Overpopulation, industry, and traffic are all considered causes of _________ pollution in Latin America.
What is air?
500
Because of the many mountains in Latin Amerca, instead of latitude, ___________ determines the type of climate an area will experience.
What is altitude/ elevation?
500
Improper sanitation, inadequate shelter, and malnutrition are all issues associated with this socioeconomic class.
What is the lower class/ poor?
500
The first inhabitants of Latin America originally migrated from this continent 40,000 years ago.
What is Asia?
500
This vocabulary term means to have technological and economic growth without the destruction of natural and human resources.
What is sustainable development?
500
Critics fear this pact will exploit Latin American workers to benefit large businesses in the United States.
What is The Dominican Republic- Central American Free Trade Agreement (DR-CAFTA).