Mexico and Central America
Geography
People and Culture
Misc.
True or False
100
Largest city and capital city of Mexico
What is Mexico City?
100
The name of the city in that suffers from severe smog
What is Mexico City?
100
Major religion in Latin America
What is the Roman Catholic?
100
Largest country in Latin America
What is Brazil?
100
The largest river in Latin America is the Amazon.
What is true?
200
Two major ancient civilizations from Mexico
What are the Aztecs and the Mayans?
200
The name of the Mt. range that runs for over 5,000 miles from southern tip of Argentina and Chile to northern Columbia.
What is the Andes Mountains?
200
The best-known festival, held yearly in Brazil
What is Carnival?
200
Makeshift communities built on slopes by cities, are unsanitary and poor living conditions
What is shantytowns?
200
True or False- Brazil is the largest exporter of sugar and coffee.
What is True?
300
The only country in Central America where English is the first language
What is Belize?
300
The name of the rain forest that inhabits half of the worlds known plants and animal species in Latin America
What is the Amazon Rainforest?
300
DAILY DOUBLE!! Double your amount if you get this one. Spanish and Portuguese tradition of male supremacy
What is machismo?
300
Highest capital in the world with an elevation of 12,000 ft.
What isLa Paz (Bolivia)?
300
The top 2 silver-producing countries in the world are in latin America.
What is true (Mexico and Peru).
400
This made trade between the U.S., Canada, and Mexico easier.
What is NAFTA (North American Free trade Agreement?
400
River between the United States and Mexico
What is Rio Grande?
400
Ancient technique of cutting down all plants and stripping away bark, then setting on fire
What is slash-and-burn farming?
400
Type of power that comes from dammed water, water turbine, and generator.
What is hydroelectric power?
400
The settlers who influenced the area the most were the settlers from America.
What is false? (European - mostly Spain and Portugal)
500
The name of the landform that is Central America?
What is an isthmus?
500
The latitudinal span of Latin America
What is 85 degrees?
500
Term meaning native to a place
What is indigenous?
500
In Cuba this economy is based on the communist government deciding how resources are used and what goods and services are produced.
What is a command economy?
500
The Amazon rainforest is home to 1/3 of the world's plants and animal species.
What is false? (1/2!!)
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