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100

This territory was originally occupied by many different native peoples and was torn apart by the Spanish conquest. They also belong to NAFTA

What is Mexico?

100
Urbanization factors that include higher paying jobs, better education and better medical care are known as this.
What are pull factors?
100
A process used by Native Latin American people to cut vegetation and burn debris to clear the fields.
What is slash and burn?
100
An ancient technique, used by the Incas and Azetecs, for growing crops along hillsides and slopes. This process reduces soil erosion.
What is terraced farming?
100

This area is often called the lungs of the world and made up of different species of trees, has a unique ecosystem, with plants and animals living in balance

What is the Rain Forest?

200

This country has the 10th largest world economy and an elected female president.

What is Brazil?

200
Mexico is a vital member of this organization. It created a huge zone of cooperation on trade and economic issues.
What is NAFTA?
200
This issue takes place outside official channels. It offers no benefits or protection to workers.
What is an informal economy?
200

This term refers to an area with a wide range of plants, insects and wildlife -- not the rainforest -- think vocabulary

What is biodiversity? 

200
The Rocky Mountains are called this in Latin America.
What is the Andes Mountains?
300

This country allows for easy/direct movement from Latin America to Panama and ultimately Mexico.  

What is Colombia? 

300
A place from which important ideas spread. Latin America is one of these.
What is a cultural hearth?
300
This term describes when a culture has several wealthy citizens and several poor citizens with little in between.
What is income gap?
300
The most colorful feast day in Brazil. Celebrated in many Christian countries just before Lent.
What is Carnival?
300
These include poor medical care, poor education, low paying jobs and ownership of land by a few.
What is Push factors?
400
This country runs along the south east coast of Latin America and is rich in oil and natural gas.  

What is Argentina? 

400
This process breaks up large landholdings and gives portions of the land to land-poor peasants.
What is land reform?
400
A growth industry throughout Latin America; especially important to Mexico and the Caribbean. Advantages of this industry include resorts offering jobs to locals.
What is tourism?
400
Throughout the 20th C many Latin American countries were ruled by this......a military dictator or political boss.
What is caudillo
400
Flowing about 4,000 miles from west to east, this river empties into the Atlantic Ocean.
What is the Amazon River?
500

This Latin American country is located on the West Coast of South America and runs the lower southern half of the coast line.

What is Chile?

500
This form of government is rule by military generals.
What is junta?
500
People of a mixed Spanish and Native American heritage.
What is Mestizo?
500
A martial art and dance that developed in Brazil from African origins.
What is Capoeira
500

The three (3) major island groups of the Caribbean are knows as:

What are the Bahamas, Greater Antilles, Lesser Antilles?

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