Vocabulary
People
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Potpourri
100
This vocabulary word is an individual with certain rights and responsibilities under a particular government.
What is a citizen?
100
Name 2 major ethnicities that the majority of Latin Americans are.
What is African, European, or Native American?
100
This Central American country has the lowest GDP.
What is Nicaragua?
100
This vocabulary word means the movement of people from the countryside to the cities.
What is urbanization?
100
Name the country that currently has a dictator.
What is Cuba?
200
This vocabulary word is a statement of a country's basic laws and values.
What is a constitution?
200
This is the major religion of Latin America.
What is Roman Catholic?
200
This Caribbean country has the highest GDP.
What is the Bahamas?
200
This vocabulary word means a policy by a government to sell its industries to individuals or private companies.
What is privatization?
200
This river is the largest in the world (the other major contender is the Nile River in Africa).
What is the Amazon River?
300
This vocabulary word is a self-governing political unit with strong ties to a particular country.
What is a commonwealth?
300
This is the most popular sport in Latin America.
What is futbol?
300
This Central American country has the highest GDP.
What is Panama?
300
This vocabulary word means a ruler of a country who has complete power.
What is a dictator?
300
This is the major way that GDP affects people's lives.
What is it typically creates a lower life expectancy and literacy rate?
400
This vocabulary word is a large waterfall; any strong flood or rush of water.
What is a cataract?
400
Name one major economic activity that many Latin American residents do for a living.
What is agriculture or manufacturing?
400
This South American country has the lowest GDP.
What is Bolivia?
400
This vocabulary word means the slums outside a major city.
What is a barrio?
400
This is the name of the islands off the coast of Ecuador.
What is the Galapagos Islands?
500
This vocabulary word is a river or stream that flows into a main river.
What is a tributary?
500
Name the major festival that takes place in Rio de Janiero the day before Ash Wednesday.
What is Carnival?
500
This South American country has the highest GDP.
What is Chile?
500
This vocabulary word means a high plateau region; a region of high plateau in the Andes.
What is an altiplano?
500
This is the name of the islands off the southern coast of Argentina.
What are the Falkland Islands?
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