Landforms
Vocabulary
Levels of Development
Culture
La Historia
100
This was built to create a stategic waterway from the Atlantic to the Pacific
What is the Panama Canal?
100
Independence from Spain made many Latin American colonies unstable, leading to the setup of these kind of governments. Cuba is an example.
What is a dictator?
100
Low GDP, high death rate, and high infant mortality rate are traits of these type of countries.
What is developing?
100
The study of people and how they interact with their environment.
What is human geography?
100
Many people in Central America are members of this group, an ethnic mix of European and indigenous peoples.
What is mestizo?
200
These mountains run along the western coast of South America.
What is the Andes?
200
This type of region is based on what people think.
What is a perceptual region?
200
High standard of living, infrastructure and high life expectancy are traits of this type of country.
What is developed?
200
Idioms, dialect, pronunciation, grammar, syntax, gestures, facial expressions and semantics are all parts of this.
What is language?
200
In the Bahamas, as in many Caribbean islands, a majority of people are descended from ancestors who came from this continent.
What is Africa?
300
A naturally occurring divide between 2 places
What is a natural border?
300
This type of region has universally-agreed upon characteristics.
What is a formal region?
300
When the economy has started to strengthen, and the death rate drops, but the birth rate is still high, a country is at this level on the Demographics Transition Model.
What is secondary?
300
These two languages are spoken in Canada.
What are English and French?
300
Small area combined with high populations gives Mexico City [this].
What is high population density?
400
This land form runs through California.
What is the San Andreas Fault?
400
Many people in Central America are members of this group, an ethnic mix of European and indigenous peoples.
What is mestizo?
400
This level of economy has jobs that are mostly in the service sector, including retail and transportation.
What is tertiary?
400
This type of city is formed when several areas blend together.
What is a megalopolis?
400
This South American place is actually a member of the European Union.
What is French Guiana?
500
When the Andes Mountains were formed, the plates did this.
What is collide?
500
Diverse crops growing at various levels of altitude
What is altitudinal zone?
500
This level of economy consists of jobs that are mostly data or finance-oriented.
What is quaternary?
500
Housing, clothing and food are all human adaptations to this.
What is climate?
500
This pre-Columbian civilization was skilled in engineering, as shown by the terraces they dug into the Andes Mountains for their farming.
What were the Inca?
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