The Bahamas were created over time by this natural substance building up.
What are coral beds?
100
The largest Portuguese speaking country in Latin America.
What is Brazil?
100
This has become a violent business using cartels in many Latin American countries to illegally buy and sell illegal drugs.
What is the Drug Trade?
200
The largest mountain range in Latin America.
What are the Andes Mountains?
200
This was constructed in the early 20th century as a shortcut from the Caribbean Sea to the Pacific Ocean.
What is the Panama Canal?
200
The name of South American cowboys.
What are Gauchos?
200
Most people in South America live near this physical feature.
What is the ocean?
200
These are found in tropical regions and are humid and full of life and often threatened by deforestation.
What are Rain Forests?
300
The longest peninsula of Mexico?
What is Baja California?
300
The communist country of Latin America that is located close to the coast of Florida.
What is Cuba?
300
The floating islands where Aztecs grew crops such as corn and beans.
What are Chinampas?
300
The predominant religion of Latin America.
What is Catholic?
300
This aspect in Latin America is poor, particularly considering the terrain.
What is the transportation system?
400
One of the four areas of Latin America that is home to a large group of individuals that are descendants of African slaves.
What is the Caribbean?
400
The river that borders Mexico and the United States.
What is the Rio Grande?
400
The name of the dictatorial military “strongman” that often held power in Latin American nations.
What is Caudillo?
400
TWO types of dance that are popular in Latin America.
What are Samba, Salsa, Mambo, and Tango?
400
The type of farming that produces just enough food for survival and is often blamed for overuse of the soil by which nutrients in the soil is depleted over time.
What is subsistence farming?
500
The four regions of Latin America.
What are Mexico, the Caribbean, Central America, and South America?
500
The island that consists of Haiti and the Dominican Republic is called.
What is Hispaniola?
500
A Latin American person of both European and American Indian descent.
What is a Mestizo?
500
Caribbean culture can be attributed to a mixture of these THREE influences.
What are African, indigenous, and European influences?
500
The name of the process of bringing something illegal to another country or area illegally.