Physical Geography
Panama Canal and Cuban Missile Crisis
Politics
History
Mish Mash
100
This is the name of the mountain range that runs the entire western side of South America.
What are the Andes Mountains?
100
This was the country that first attempted to build a canal across Panama.
What is France?
100
This was Simon Bolivar's goal for Latin American countries.
What is independence? (What is liberty? What is freedom? are also acceptable answers.)
100
The Spanish brought this religion to Mexico during their conquest and it remains the major religion of Mexico to this day.
What is Catholicism?
100
In this farming technique you slash and burn any vegetation and then plant new crops on the land that you just burned.
What is slash and burn agriculture?
200
This is the second longest river in the world and the longest in South America.
What is the Amazon River?
200
This country completed the Panama Canal in 1914.
What is the United States of America?
200
This is the country that Simon Bolivar was born in.
What is Venezuela?
200
This country brought slaves from Africa to Brazil to work on the sugar plantations.
What is Portugal?
200
Panama used to be part of this Latin American country.
What is Columbia?
300
These are the flat grassy grazing lands of Argentina.
What are the Pampas?
300
This is how long the Panama Canal is.
What is 48 miles?
300
This was the Aztec capital that is now known as Mexico City.
What is Tenochtitlan?
300
This was the ancient technique used to grow crops on hillsides or mountain slopes.
What is terraced farming?
300
This is the Latin American country that Luis Suarez was born in.
What is Uruguay?
400
This is the country where most of the rainforest in South America is located.
What is Brazil?
400
In 1962 this event nearly led to a nuclear Holocaust.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
400
This is the European country that controlled most of Latin America before Simon Bolivar's revolutions.
What is Spain?
400
This American doctrine stated that European countries should not try to get new colonies in Latin America.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
400
This is the length of the Panama Canal.
What is 48 miles?
500
These are the Argentinian cowboys who roam the Pampas.
What are Gauchos?
500
These were the two major world powers during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
What are the United States and the Soviet Union?
500
Puerto Rico is classified as a ______________ of the United States.
What is a territory? (What is a protectorate is also an acceptable answer.)
500
This was the Spanish conquistador that conquered the Aztecs.
Who was Hernan Cortez?
500
This is the capital of Ecuador.
What is Quito?
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