Violent shaking of the earth usually at plate boundaries.
What is an earthquake?
100
The most popular sport in Latin America.
What is soccer?
100
The ocean west of Latin America.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
200
This was built to make it so ships had a shorter and more direct route to get from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean?
What is the Panama Canal?
200
Define colonization
What is when a group of people of one nationality or ethnic group are living in a foreign city or country.
200
Dangerous storm winds, usually occur in warm months
What is a hurricane?
200
Most common religion in Latin America.
What is Roman Catholic?
200
Another name for hurricane.
What is typhoon or cyclone?
300
Latin America contains what regions?
What is Central America, the Caribbean, and South America?
300
The 3 indigenous peoples in Latin America.
What are the Maya, Aztecs, and the Incas?
300
The definition of a tsunami.
What is a large wave caused by a disruption such as an eruption or earthquake?
300
The large festival called that happens before Lent?
What is Carnival?
300
This is the tool used to measure the magnitude of an earthquake.
What is the richter scale?
400
How much of the Amazon Rainforest is in Brazil?
What is 40%?
400
The conquistador who conquered the Incas.
Who is Pizarro?
400
The number of people the Haitian Earthquake killed.
What is 316,000?
400
Sorry this isn't culture.... The starting point of an earth quake.
What is the epicenter?
400
A criminal organization that controls the movement of drugs.
What is a drug cartel?
500
The internal force that caused the Andes to form.
What is subduction?
500
The division of the new world between Spain and Portugal by the Pope.
What is the treaty of Tordesillas?
500
The percent of earthquakes that occur along the ring of fire.
What is 90%?
500
The effect of the treaty of Tordesillas on Latin America culture.
What is it made it so Portugal got Brazil and brought Portuguese language. Spain got all of the rest so the rest speaks Spanish. Both brought Christianity.
500
The percent of the native population in Latin America killed by diseases (small pox).