Physical Geography
The body of water in which the Amazon River dumps into
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
This country/region has the most influence in the Caribbean's culture due to the slave trade
What is Africa?
This is a military dictator or political boss
What is a caudillo?
The cutting down & clearing away of trees
What is deforestation?
A factory in northern Mexico that cheaply assembles goods and sends them to the U.S.
What is a maquiladora?
These are the three regions of Latin America
What is Mexico, Central America/Caribbean, & South America?
These are the three native groups in Latin America
What is Aztec, Inca, & Maya?
This is a ruler who exercises authority in a colony on behalf of a sovereign
What is a viceroy?
The clearing away of native vegetation to plan commercial crops
What is plantation farming?
What is Mexico was historically agricultural, not industrial?
This is where the Atacama Desert is located
What is Peru?
This is the main religion of Latin America
What is Roman Catholicism?
This is a government with rule by few, or a small group
What is an oligarchy?
This is the most populous city in Latin America
What is Mexico City, Mexico?
True or False: Mexico has high unemployment rates
What is True?
This is the 2nd largest river system in Latin America
What is the Paraguay, Uruguay, and Parana River?
This divided South America, putting Brazil under Portuguese control
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?
This is why Central America is considered a politically unstable/fragmented region
What is its proximity to two oceans & the land bridge?
Latin America has a population density that is _________ than the U.S.
What is lower?
What is the Panama Canal?
This is the largest lake in South America & holds Venezuela's oil fields
What is Lake Maracaibo?
This program redistributed land from the wealthy elite to poor peasant farmers
What is land reform?
Chile is an ________________________, because of its length of 2,600 miles.
What is an elongated state?
Most people in this subregion live in cities because of Tourism related jobs
What is The Caribbean?
How does poor education impact the economy?