Cultural
Economic
Physical
Climate
Misc.
100
The main reason Mexican farmers move into cities:
What is Economic Opportunity
100
What European country colonized most of Latin America?
What is the Spanish?
100
The Andes Mountains line the west coast of...?
What is South America?
100
The scientific study of climate and weather is called....?
What is meteorology?
100
Can the path of a hurricane be predicted?
What is NO?
200
Where do the majority of indigenous Mayans live?
What is in the highlands of Guatemala?
200
Name 2 things that are mined in South America.
What is oil, copper, iron ore, copper, zinc, etc.
200
Which river flows along the border between Mexico and the United States?
What is the Rio Grande?
200
The most common climate zone in Central America is....?
What is tropical?
200
What method of farming is used in mountainous areas?
What is terracing?
300
What are the grasslands in Argentina where Cows graze and Gauchos work called?
What is Pampas?
300
What type of tourism is being promoted in the Amazon?
What is ecotourism?
300
Which island in the Caribbean has two countries on it?
What is Hispaniola?
300
What is the most dangerous part of a hurricane?
What is the storm surge?
300
List 3 countries in Latin America that are on the Ring of Fire
What is Peru, Chile, Costa Rica, Bolivia, Mexico, etc....
400
Mexico City was the capital of which civilization?
What is the Aztecs?
400
Name 3 Cash Crops grown in the Caribbean
What is bananas, coffee, sugar and spices
400
What two South American countries are landlocked?
What is Bolivia and Paraguay?
400
Above the treeline in the Andes
What is Tierra Helada?
400
Peoples of both European and indigenous descent.
What is Mezitos?
500
Describe rural decline.
What is increasing poverty in the countryside.
500
What is NAFTA?
What is a trade agreement between the US, Canada and Mexico that abolishes tariffs (taxes) between the three countries.
500
List 3 countries in Latin America that are in the Ring of Fire.
What is Costa Rica, Guatemala, Bolivia, Chile, Peru, Equador, Mexico....
500
What are 3 parts of a hurricane?
What is eye, eye wall, rain bands.
500
A type of farming practiced by farmers in the Amazon as well as historically by the Mayans. It gets them land to farm on but is often of poor quality!
What is slash-and-burn farming?
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