What are the two major mountain ranges in the United States?
Rocky Mountains and Appalachian Mountains
100
A word that means "a chain of islands."
archipelago
100
What two languages are spoken in Canada?
English and French
100
What ancient civilization was based in Southern Mexico and Guatemala, in the Yucatan Peninsula?
Mayan Civilization
100
Poor farmers engage in this kind of farming... It provides them with enough to live, but no one gets rich doing it.
subsistence farming
200
What's the oldest mountain range in the United States? (Hint - they're on the east coast)
Appalachian Mountains
200
What mountain range, the longest in the world, runs along the west coast of South America?
Andes Mountains
200
Is the United States a developed or developing country?
Developed
200
What ancient civilization was located where present day Mexico City is located? (a few thousand years ago there used to be a lake)
Aztecs
200
What is the major cash crop grown in the Caribbean?
Sugar Cane
300
What river forms a natural border between the United States and Mexico?
Rio Grande
300
What two climate zones dominate most of Latin America?
Tropical Wet and Tropical Wet and Dry
300
What does the economic union, "NAFTA" stand for? Who are the three members?
North American Free Trade Agreement. Mexico, US, Canada.
300
What ancient group of people lived high up in the Andes Mountains in Peru?
Incans
300
What kind of farming is popular in the rainforest and causes deforestation in Amazon Rainforest?
Slash and Burn Farming
400
What region is located in the middle of the United States. It is flat and very good for farming because of the arable soil.
Great Plains
400
What agricultural technique is used to grow crops on the sides of steep mountains? This technique is used in the Andes Mountains in Peru.
Terracing
400
What is the major goal of NAFTA?
eliminate tariffs
400
What are the two major languages spoken in Latin America?
Spanish and Portuguese
400
Venezuela has large reserves of what very valuable nonrenewable resource?
Oil
500
The Grand Canyon was formed by what river?
Colorado River
500
What very important river and rainforest are located in Brazil? (hint - they share the same name)
Amazon River and Amazon Rainforest
500
What region in the United States has experienced rapid population growth in the last 50 years, partly thanks to the widespread use of Air Conditioning and the migration of people from the north and the south.
Sun Belt
500
What word is used to describe the rapid movement of people from the countryside into cities? This process is happening throughout Latin America.
Urbanization
500
The biggest cause of deforestation in Latin America