Latin America Geography
Located in the southern hemisphere with low elevation, this country has issues with deforestation of the rainforest.
What is Brazil?
Name the two countries that colonized most of Latin America.
What is Portugal and Spain?
The most popular practiced religion in Latin America.
What is Roman Catholicism?
Why was the Panama Canal Built?
As a shorter route between the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Oceanfor trade
The large-scale cutting down and clearing of trees
deforestation
Three reasons why the Amazon Rainforest should be preserved
It provides medicine, food, people's homes, animals, plants, climate change/global warming
List the three major Latin American civilizations from earliest to most recent.
What is Maya, Aztec, Inca?
What is the festival celebrated in Rio de Jainero, Brazil each year before the catholic tradition of Lent?
Carnival
True or False: Tourism and Cash Crops positively impact Latin American economy.
True
The contrast between the life of the wealthy and the that of the poor in Latin America is due to the
income gap
What is a cause of human interference?
(Three possible answers; you only need to pick one)
What are deforestation, mudslides, or pollution?
Which ancient civilization established a city at present day Mexico City, formerly known as Tenochtitlan ?
What are the Aztecs?
Carnival is a product of African culture being spread through...
What is triangular trade?
Name 4 natural resources found in Latin America
gold, iron, copper, timber, lumber, oil, natural gas, coal, hydroelectric power
The reasons people leave a place or come to a place
push-and-pull factors
True
This ancient civilization created Machu Picchu and was conquered by Pizzaro
the Inca
This type of government is present in Cuba.
What is unlimited or dictatorship?
Two Latin American cash crops that are major exports.
What are coffee and sugar?
Name that describe the land and water features of a country?
What is Physical Geography?
This Caribbean country is 3/4 the size of Florida.
What is Cuba?
The Panama Canal had two major problems while it was being built.
What are yellow fever, deaths, time consuming, money, and habitat destructions?
True or False: Imports and Service are associated with economy.
True
What are the three economically strongest countries in Latin America?
brazil, Argentina, Mexico
A peninsula is a...
A piece of land that expands into the middle of a body of water (or the best answer).