Miscellaneous
Socialism & US-Latin American Relations
Caribbean
Movement& Population Pyramids
Pre-Hispanic Latin America
100
Name of the major river that runs through Brazil (largest in the world).
What is Amazon River?
100
This canal connected the Caribbean Sea to the Pacific Ocean and cut the travel time from New York City to San Francisco by 2/3s.
What is the Panama Canal?
100
Visiting a location and the related activities: hotels, restaurants, shops, etc.
What is tourism?
100
Things/reasons that make you want to leave a place (persecution, lack of jobs).
What are push factors?
100
Native Americans who lived in southern Mexico and were famous for their extremely accurate calendar.
Who are the Mayans?
200
Name of the major mountain range that runs through most of South America.
What are the Andes Mountains?
200
A country where the government is helped out (or run) by a foreign-owned fruit company.
What are Banana Republics?
200
New trend in tourism where travelers seek to lower their impact on locations that they visit. "more nature-friendly"
What is ecotourism.
200
Things/reasons that draw you to a place (availability of jobs, younger population).
What are pull factors?
200
Group of Native Americans in the Andes mountains of South American know for their extensive network of roads.
Who are the Incas?
300
This person (main character in the film, motorcycle diaries) helped spread the idea of socialism around Latin America.
Who is Ernesto "Che" Guevara? (Fuser)
300
Political system in which land ownership is split between the government and the people.
What is socialism?
300
A chain of islands formed by the movement of tectonic plates. Ex: Caribbean islands.
What is an archipelago?
300
Population pyramid with low birth rates and high death rates. Country's population is shrinking.
What is a contracting population pyramid?
300
Which two major European powers settled most of Latin America?
Who were the Spanish and Portuguese? (or French)
400
This country, which is 90 miles off the coast of Florida, is the closest communist country to the United States and is led by Fidel/Raul Castro.
What is Cuba?
400
This trade agreement between the US, Mexico, and Canada unequally hurt the Mexican economy while benefiting the other two countries.
What is NAFTA?
400
A country with a low GDP that is making progress towards improving its economy.
What is a developing country?
400
Population pyramid with high birth rates and low death rates. Country's population is increasing.
What is an expanding population pyramid?
400
They were searching for gold and hoping to spread Christianity to the New World.
What are the reasons that the Europeans came to the Americas?
500
This treaty between Portugal and Spain divided the New World into Spanish-speaking and Portuguese-speaking areas.
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?
500
This political philosopher created the idea of socialism/communism to end the equalities between the poor and the wealthy.
Who is Karl Marx?
500
A country with a high GDP, which also has a strong economy and standard of living.
What is a developed country?
500
A population pyramid with similar birth rates and death rates. Country's population is staying the same.
What is a stationary population pyramid?
500
Large farms where coffee, cocoa, and bananas were grown by natives or slaves brought from Africa.
What are haciendas (plantations?)?
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