Physical Features
Political Features
Culture
People
Miscellaneous
100
What is the mountain range that runs through Mexico?
What are the Sierra Madres
100
What country is made up of many islands (almost 700) and lies very near Florida?
What are the Bahamas.
100
Name one reason the U.S. should care about Latin America
Possible answers: What is: languages, cuisine, music/dance/recreation, immigration, trade, disease, or drug trafficking
100
What is population density?
What is the amount of people in a certain area
100
These are the four regions of Latin America
What are the Caribbean, South America, Central America, and Mexico
200
What are the 2 largest lakes in South America?
What are Lake Titicaca and Lake Maracaibo
200
How many independent countries are there in Latin America and the Caribbean?
What are 33 countries
200
Why is Latin America called Latin America?
What is because languages derived from Latin are spoken there.
200
Name at least three areas of low density.
Possible answers: What are the Atacama Desert, Patagonian Plateau, Andes, Amazon Rainforest, etc.
200
These three things are affected by L.A.'s physical features
What are travel, communication, and agriculture
300
What is the tiny sea animal that have formed the Cayman Islands and the Bahamas?
What is coral
300
What country in South America has two capitals?
What is Bolivia.
300
These are the two major languages spoken in L.A.
What are Spanish and Portuguese
300
What are the 4 ethnic groups?
What are Europeans, African, Indian, and Mixed.
300
This is the mainstay of the Indian population living in the Altiplano
What is the potato
400
What is a rain shadow?
What is a region with little rainfall because it is blocked by mountains.
400
What is the name of the island that has Haiti and the Dominican Republic?
What is Hispaniola.
400
What area of peoples' lives does the Latin history influence
What is culture, architecture, religion, cuisine, etc.
400
What does indigenous mean?
What is native to the land
400
This is Mexico's ranking with which the U.S. Trades (goods)
what is third
500
What wide river (actually an estuary) forms a bay between Argentina and Uruguay?
What is the Rio de la Plata.
500
What are the two countries in South America that do not have sea ports?
What are Bolivia and Paraguay.
500
These are the other cultures that exist in this area
What are African, English, French, Dutch, and Indigenous
500
What are the 3 mixed ethnic groups?
What are Mestizo (European/Indian), Mulatto (European/African) and Zambo (African/Indian)
500
These are the two countries richest in oil in L.A.
What are Venezuela and Mexico
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