Human Geography
Physical Geography
Ancient Latin America
Spanish in Latin America
Annotations
100

Answer: This is the largest country in Latin America.

Question: What is Brazil?

100

Answer: This is the body of water west of Mexico

Question: What is the Gulf of Mexico?

100

Answer: These are the most successful Ancient Latin American civilizations.

Questions: Who are the Maya, the Aztec, and the Inca?

100

Answer: This was the name of the Aztec ruler conquered by Hernan Cortes.

Montezuma II

100

Answer: From the text ... From my Mind

Question: How do you write annotations? 

200

Answer: This city has the highest population of Latin America. The city is named after the country in which it resides.

Question: What is Mexico City?

200

Answer: This is the longest mountain range on Earth's surface, and has the highest peak in the Western Hemisphere.

Question: What is the Andes Mountain range?

200

Answer: This ancient Latin American civilization created a 365-day solar calendar, and a written language in the form of hieroglyphs.

Question: Who are the Maya?

200

Answer: This was the name of the Spanish Soldier that defeated the Inca Ruler, Atahualpa

Question: Who is Francisco Pizarro?

200

Answer: This is what proves your annotations are accurate and correct. It is also the second sentence of a paragraph.

Question: What is Text Evidence?

300

Answer: These are the two major languages in South America. 

Question: What are Spanish and Portuguese?

300

Answer: This physical feature begins in the Peruvian Andes, flows through Brazil and into the Atlantic Ocean.

Question: What is the source of the Amazon River?

300

Answer: The Mayans established this basic unit of a writing system that features symbols.

Question: What are hieroglyphs? 

300
Answer: This was the name of the Incan ruler who was defeated by the Spanish soldier Francisco Pizarro in 1521.

Question: Who is Atahualpa (ah-tuh-Wahl-puh)

300

Answer: This is the name of the method of taking notes in which the teacher or your table captain assigns you a section of text, you find the main idea or the meanings of BOLD and UNDERLINED words and then later share your annotations with your original elbow partners.

Question: What is the jigsaw method?

400

Answer: These countries are located in between the Mexico and South America.

Question: What is Central America?

400

Answer: This is the main cultural connection among most Latin Americans.

Question: What is the Spanish Language?
400

Answer: Maintaining a powerful empire and to die for Huitzilopochtli (wee-tsuh-loh-pohch-tlee), the Aztec god of war are two reasons why Aztec warriors would join the Aztec army.

Question: What two reasons did men join the Aztec army?

400

Answer: Native Americans were enslaved, converted to Christianity, new products were shipped between Latin America and Spain when this event happened in the 1500s)

Question: What changed occurred in Latin America after the Spanish took control?

400

Answer: Who, What, When, Where, Why, How?

Question: What is the best way to find the main idea of a section when annotating text?

500
Answer: Bolivia and Paraguay.

Question: What are the two land-locked countries located in South America?

500

Answer: A large portion of Latin America lies within this climate area of the planet that could be rainy or dry, but is typically hot.

Question: What is the Tropical Zone?

500

Answer: The Inca created these in order to communicate throughout the entire empire without having a written language?

Question: What are relay teams of messengers carrying verbal messages.

500
Answer: Foods once exotic or rare to Europeans became more available during this so called exchange between European countries and their colonies in North and South America (i.e. Spain and most of Latin America). 

Question: What is the Columbian Exchange. 

500

Answer: These words are text features that help the reader identify important concepts or vocabulary words.

Question: What are BOLD and UNDERLINED words in the text.

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