The river that carries more water than any other river on Earth
What is the Amazon
100
What did many Spanish explorers hope to find in Latin America?
What is gold?
100
Haiti still has characteristics of
What is France?
100
Which is not an element of culture government, climate. religion or language?
climate
200
The main industry of Brazil and Columbia
What is coffee?
200
Why the Europeans initially sailed to the lands known as the Americas?
What is to find trade routes to India.
200
The Type government in Cuba
What is dictatorship or rule by one?
200
Which two forces most influenced the early history of American Indian encounters with European explorers in South America
1. colonization
2. conquest
3. industrialization
4. famine
colonization and conquest
300
The rivers of Latin America provide for the people of live around them (3 things)
What are food, electricity and transportation?
300
The line that shows where Portugal and Spain could settle and trade.
What is the Line of Demarcation?
300
The type government found in Argentina, Brazil and Peru
What is Democracy or Rule by many?
300
The Incas increase their farmland by
What is they built stone terraces and aqueducts?
400
To reduce reliance on one natural resource or crop, many Latin America countries have begun
What is diversify their economies?
400
The religion that was brought to Latin America by Portuguese and Spanish Colonization
What is Roman Catholic?
400
The country that links trade between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans by it's canal
What is Panama?
400
The environmental problem facing Latin America
What is deforestation?
500
The distribution of Latin America's resources can be described as
What is varied from region to region?
500
Aspects of culture brought with the Spanish into Latin America countries. Name 3
What are language, religion, architecture and dress?
500
Country where most of the rainforest is located.
What is Brazil?
500
Describe a free enterprise system.
What is people have economic freedom, can exchange goods and have the right to own property?