Latin America was colonized primarily by two groups.
Who are the Spanish and the Portuguese?
100
Second highest mountains in the world.
What are the Andes?
100
The effect of a natural hazard that affects the environment, and leads to financial, environmental and/or human losses.
What is a natural disaster?
100
Cutting down and burning of trees to clear the land and use it for farming.
What is slash & burn?
100
Known for farming llamas and alpacas in the Andes.
Who are the Quechua?
200
Two primary languages of Latin America.
What is Spanish & Portuguese?
200
The largest river in the world.
What is the Amazon river?
200
Measures the intensity of an earthquake.
What is the Richter scale?
200
Logging, mining, and slash & burn all have this in common:
What are threats to the rainforests?
200
Frequently use the barter (trading) system.
Who are Tarahumara?
300
The primary religion of Latin America.
What is Roman Catholicism?
300
This area’s primary income is tourism.
What is the Caribbean Sea?
300
The largest earthquake ever recorded.
What is the Chilean earthquake of 1960?
300
-Contains nearly ½ world’s plants and animals species
-New plants and animals are constantly being discovered
-Contains medicines and cures for diseases
(These are all reasons to...)
What are reasons to try to save the Amazon rainforest?
300
Known for being extraordinary endurance runners.
Who is Tarahumara?
400
Catholicism was brought to Latin America by a certain group of people.
Who are the European colonizers?
400
Built from 1904-1914 to lessen travel time so ships wouldn't have to sail all the way around South America.
What is the Panama Canal?
400
Storm that forms over warm, tropical ocean waters & produce powerful winds, torrential rain, high waves and storm surges.
What are hurricanes?
400
A specific rainforest animal that contains things that could potentially be used for medicine taken from the animal's poison.
What is the poisonous dart frog?
400
Natives found in southern Mexico.
Who are the Zapotec?
500
Two other major colonizers of Latin America.
What is Great Britain & France?
500
This body of water runs through most of Brazil.
What is the Amazon river?
500
Ranked the 3rd most unstable region in the world.
What is Latin America?
500
The 3 regions that contain rainforests in Latin America.
What is Central America, Caribbean, and northern South America?
500
People found in the Lesser Antilles (Caribbean islands).