This person helped lead Colombia and Venezuela to independence.
Who is Simon Bolivar?
100
Mexico City has a large pollution. Due to a large pollution and its geographic location, Mexico City's air quality is poor.
What is air pollution?
100
The total value of goods and services produced by a country each year.
What is Gross Domestic Product?
100
This system of power is used by Brazil and it means that power is shared between the federal and state governments.
What is a federal system of government?
200
The biggest country in Latin America.
What is Brazil?
200
The name of the guerilla movement that wanted to distribute land to poor farmers.
What is the Zapatista movement?
200
This natural resource is cut down for wood to sell and helps lead to the increase of global warming.
What is the defeorestation of the Amazon rain forest?
200
The natural resource that Brazil has, which helps Brazil has a strong stable GDP.
What is the Amazon Rain forest?
200
This government system used in Jamaica means the executive branch is not independent of the legislative branch.
What is a parliamentary government?
300
The man made structure that cuts a path through Panama.
What is the Panama Canal?
300
The Spanish conquistador who conquered the Inca empire.
Who is Francisco Pizarro?
300
The two languages that were brought from Europe to Latin America
What is Spanish and Portugese?
300
The system that allows countries like Mexico and Brazil to trade even though they have different currencies.
What is the currency exchange system?
300
Cuba's government puts just one person in power and this one person has all the say in government decisions and the citizens have no say in government.
What is a dictatorship?
400
The mountain range that runs through Mexico.
What is the Sierra Madre Mountains?
400
These things helped the Spanish take over the Aztecs and Incas even though the Spanish were outnumbered.
What is guns, germs, steel, horses, and disease?
400
The reason there are a large number of different ethnic groups in Latin America.
What is exploration, colonization, and slavery?
400
The agreement that gets rid of trade barriers between Mexico, the United States, and Canada.
What is the North American Free Trade Agreement?
400
A government system where one group is in control of government and the citizens outside of that group have no real voting rights.
What is an oligarchy?
500
The country that has ruins of the Inca civilization.
What is Peru?
500
The person who led a revolution in Cuba.
Who is Fidel Castro?
500
The reason for people in Latin America being able to shift from farming jobs to higher paying jobs.
What is a higher literacy rate?
500
This type of trade barrier means that the United States will not trade at all with Cuba.
What is an embargo?
500
This type of government system gives power to the regional or state government and the federal government is very weak.