Physical Geography and Climate
This is a key weather pattern characteristic shared by areas with a Mediterranean climate.
What are long, dry summers?
European nations originally took control of Latin America and the Caribbean to gain wealth by growing these.
What are cash crops?
An example of a migration pull factor—such as job opportunities—attracts people to a new region, whereas this factor forces them away.
What are push factors (or poverty/violence)?
Fidel Castro originally came to power in Cuba by leading a fight against the country's existing ruler, who held this title.
What is a dictator?
The highest elevations in the Andes mountain range typically experience this type of climate.
What is cool with little rainfall?
Independence for many South American nations in the 1800s marked the end of this type of foreign control.
What is colonial authority (or colonial rule)?
The thriving tourism industry in the Bahamas and Virgin Islands acts as this type of migration factor for incoming workers.
What is a pull factor?
After taking power in the 1960s, Fidel Castro established this form of government in Cuba.
What is a communist government?
Thousands of plant and animal species thrive in the Amazon Basin primarily due to this environmental feature.
What is a warm and wet climate?
Caribbean countries sought independence primarily because they wanted control over these two things.
What are their lands and resources?
Many people migrate to the Brazilian city of São Paulo specifically drawn by the opportunity for this.
What is employment (or jobs)?
Political instability in Nicaragua has been driven primarily by civil wars and these authoritarian rulers.
What are dictators?
The frequent earthquakes experienced throughout the Caribbean are caused by this geological process.
What is the movement of tectonic plates?
This 1494 agreement divided newly discovered lands across the globe between Spain and Portugal.
What is Treaty of Todesillas?
Migrant workers send this back to family members in their home countries.
What is a remittance?
Costa Rica manages the impacts of natural disasters more effectively than its neighbors mainly because of this feature.
What is being more economically stable?
Geographically, the islands that make up the Caribbean form this specific type of landform.
What is an archipelago?
One major transaction during the Triangular Trade involved Europeans exchanging manufactured guns for these individuals.
Who are enslaved Africans?
Globalization has impacted Caribbean culture by doing this to it.
what is mixing influences of other cultures.
This Asian nation currently serves as Brazil's largest partner for international trade.
What is China?
Human settlement has flourished in South America's lowlands for thousands of years largely because these areas offer a reliable one of these.
What is a food supply?
In the high slopes of the Andes, the Inca civilization demonstrated advanced engineering skills by constructing these for farming.
What are terraced fields (or terraces)?
Students pursuing education in rural areas often face this specific obstacle compared to those in urban areas.
What is having fewer schools?
According to economic resource maps of Cuba, bananas are primarily grown in this section of the island.
What is the southern part of the country?