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100
a piece of land surrounded by water on three sides
What is a peninsula?
100
two examples of music from the West Indies
What is Reggae and Calypso?
100
These are the two main resources of the West Indies economy
What is plantation farming and tourism?
100
The volcanoes located around the Pacific plate boundaries are located on this
What is the Ring of Fire?
100
Northeast, Northwest, Southeast, Southwest
What are intermediate directions?
200
dangerous
What is treacherous?
200
the main languages spoken in Central America
What is Spanish, English, and Mayan?
200
This precious metal is found in the Northern part of Mexico
What is silver?
200
Coal, Nuclear Energy, and Oil
What are nonrenewable resources?
200
Use this map if you want to look at the elevation of a place
What is a topographic map?
300
a chain of islands
What is an archipelago?
300
Mexican artist nominated "Queen of the Selfie"
Who is Frida Kahlo?
300
Farming where a family grows only enough food to feed themselves
What is subsistence farming?
300
Natural disasters that usually occur near plate boundaries
What are earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcanoes?
300
Two indigenous cultures located in Mexico
Who were the Aztecs and Mayans?
400
clearing or cutting down of forests
What is deforestation
400
This religion dominates the Western Hemisphere
What is Christianity?
400
A US run factory based in Mexico
What is a maquiladora?
400
The lunar phase immediately after the new moon
What is the waxing crescent moon?
400
This country was chosen to be the location of a shortcut through the Americas because it was so narrow
What is Panama?
500
Native to that place
What is indigenous?
500
Ancient cultures formed near rivers. List the main rivers.
What is the Huang He, Indus, Tigris and Euphrates, and Nile?
500
This resource is second in value to oil and found through Central America
What is coffee?
500
When the north pole is tilted away from the sun, it is this season in the southern hemisphere
What is summer?
500
When Cortez conquered the Aztec empire and called it New Spain, it became this to Spain
What is a colony?
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