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moist, high-elevation tropical forests where low clouds are common (found in highland areas)
cloud forest
divide the Atlantic Ocean from the Caribbean Sea
Caribbean Islands
main economic activity
tourism
official language of Belize
English
official language of most of the region
Spanish
celebration with parades, costumes, and music
Carnival
product exported from the rain forest
timber (lumber)
main resources of the Central American and Caribbean
land and climate
poorest country in the Western Hemisphere
Haiti
tropical storms that threaten the region from summer to fall
hurricanes
biggest in size and population in Central America
Guatemala
Communist country (government controls TV, radio, newspapers, etc.)
Cuba
main climates of the region
humid tropical and tropical savanna
source of chocolate
cacao
Islands made of coral located in Atlantic Southeast off the coast of Florida.
Bahamas
Controlled most of the banana production in Central America in early to mid 1900s.
United Fruit Company
worked on plantations and often died of European diseases
Native American/African slaves
a man-made waterway that is a shortcut between North and South America. Finished in 1914 by the United States.
Panama Canal
large economic activity in the region (bananas, coffee, sugarcane, cotton)
agriculture
main religion of the region
Roman Catholic
self-governing territory associated with another country
commonwealth
large group of islands
archipelago
Cuba, Jamaica, Haiti and Dominican Republic (Hispaniola), Puerto Rico
Greater Antilles
smaller islands stretching from the Virgin Islands to Trinidad and Tobago
Lesser Antilles
a former slave helped w/ slave revolt in Haiti (led to independence), became Haiti's governor
Toussaint-L'Ouverture