narrow stretch of land connecting two larger land areas
What is an isthmus?
100
The three main Native American empirers in Latin America.
What are Aztec, Inca, and Maya.
100
What two WORLDS exchanged goods in the Columbian Exchange?
What are the New and Old World?
100
What four parts make up Latin America?
What is Mexico, Caribbean, Central America, and South America?
100
California is located on the edge of the San Andreas __________, or crack in the ground.
What is fault?
200
the loss or destruction of forests, mainly for logging or farming
What is deforestation?
200
believe that one's ethnic or cultural group is centrally important, and that all other groups are measured in relation to one's own
What is ethnocentric?
200
the area near the equator where winds do not blow thus causing ships to stay still
What are the doldrums?
200
What is a major determining factor that determines where major cities are located?
What is geography or near natural resources?
200
Marine West Coast climates would be found in which latitudes?
What are the mid-latitudes?
300
steps or ridges built into hills or mountains to make it capable of growing crops
What is terrace farming?
300
The way people of Latin America have preserved and documented the history and culture.
What is painting murals?
300
What part of Latin America did Columbus sail to?
What is the Caribbean?
300
market value of all products and services produced in one year by labor and property supplied by the residents of a country
What is Gross National Product (GNP)?
300
People moved from cottage industries, where things were made at home, to commercial industires, where things were made in _____________.
What are factories?
400
Spanish for "high plain"; located near Peru and Bolivia
What is altiplano?
400
Which type of region deals with people having a common characteristic such as language or history
What is formal region?
400
Give both a positive and negative impact of the Columbian Exchange?
Answers will vary.
400
The term for the connecting of different groups around the world in terms of governments and economics?
What is globalization?
400
The manmade structure built by the United States in the early 1900s, and controlled by the United States
until 1999 that is used by ships to cut time in trading.
What is the Panama Canal?
500
of the three factors that determine how much energy we received from the sun, which is most responsible for the seasons
What is revolution around the sun?
500
the spread of ideas from one culture into another
What is cultural convergence
500
Which cultural group's influence can still be seen in Latin American celebrations such as Carnival?
What is African?
500
How would a negative event like a war impact the population pyramid of a country?
What is having small percentages of male in the 20 - 40 age categories?