Section 1 & 2
Which region, which includes Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama, is the southern portion of North America?
Central America
What resources are significantly limited; Central America and the Caribbean islands must rely on these imports, limiting their development opportunities?
Energy
Which country in Central America has the smallest population?
Belize
What did Christopher Columbus call the Caribbean islands?
West Indies
What food was developed by African slaves and was made of pigtails and snouts.
Souse
What is the name of a thin strip of land that joins two larger land areas?
Isthmus
Who built vast cities with pyramids and temples in various Central American countries around AD 250 and abandoned most of them around 900, although the ruins of several ancient cities may still be found in the region today?
Maya
What is the term for the practice of leveraging an area's natural surroundings to attract tourists?
Ecotourism
What group of countries mostly colonized the Caribbean?
English, French, Dutch, and Danish
What is a territory with its own government and is associated with another country?
Commonwealth
What is the name of the hundreds of islands that lay across the Caribbean Sea from Central America?
Caribbean Islands
Which year did the Spanish colonies of Central America declare their independence from Spain?
1821
What is the name of a mountainous country whose people live primarily in mountain valleys and near the northern coast?
Honduras
Who was the slave rebel who helped Haiti liberate from France in 1804?
Toussaint-L’Ouverture
What is the capital of Haiti
Portau-Prince
What is the definition of a vast collection of islands?
Archipelago
The Spanish colonies of Central America declared independence from Spain, but much of the territory stayed united, known as what?
United Provinces of Central America
What is the term used to describe a dispute between two or more groups within a country?
Civil War
What country won independence from a slave uprising in 1804, is the western halve of Hispaniola and has a limited industry based off of sugarcane, and coffee.
Haiti
What is a person who immigrated from one country to another usually because of politics or economy?
Refugee
What do the four main islands of Puerto Rico, Hispaniola, Jamaica, and Cuba make up?
Greater Antilles
Around which years did Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala separate?
1838 to 1839
Which people's country has been working to rebuild itself since the conclusion of the conflict in 1992, with one advantage being the country's fertile soil, which allows them to grow and export commodities such as coffee and sugarcane?
El Salvador
What is the eastern part of Hispaniola is one of the poorer countries, has more developed social and economical needs compared to Haiti and has beach resorts that many tourists are attracted to.
Dominican Republic
When did an earthquake strike causing 230,000 Haitians dead, and 300,000 injured?
January, 12, 2010
What are the various smaller islands in the Caribbean made of?
Lesser Antilles
Panama remained a part of Colombia until which year?
1903
Which South American country has been rebuilding since the end of a civil war, which concluded in 1990 and is now democratic?
Nicaragua
What country won Cuba from Spain?
United States
What is the capital of the Dominican Republic?
Santo Domingo
What is the name of an island group in the Atlantic Ocean southeast of Florida that includes nearly 700 islands and thousands of reefs?
Bahamas
What year did Belize win independence from Britain?
1981
Which South American country has a history of peace, a stable democratic administration, and no army?
Costa Rica
What country was colonized by Spain and won independence in 1902 with a government that controls the economy?
Cuba
What is the capital of Cuba?
Havana
Many Caribbean islands are actually the summits of underwater mountains and volcanoes, whilst others originated as coral reefs that were progressively pushed up to form flat limestone islands. What has pushed this region's land up out of the sea over millions of years?
Colliding Tectonic Plates
In the early to mid-1900s, which American business controlled the majority of Central American banana production?
United Fruit Company
What is the name of the structure that connects the Pacific Ocean, Caribbean Sea, and Atlantic Ocean? The United States completed its construction in 1914, and it has long played a vital role in the region's economics and politics.
Panama Canal
What is a certain dialect of French called that many Haitians speak.
French Creole
Who was the Spanish dictator who took power in 1959 giving the government power to takeover most businesses and banks?
Fidel Castro
What is the name of a moist, high-elevation tropical forest characterized by low clouds?
Cloud Forest
What is the name of Central America's chocolate source?
Cacao
America
What is a certain way of speaking a language?
Dialect
What is a company owned by their members for their mutual benifit called?
Cooperative
What is the name of a tropical storm that brings powerful winds, heavy rain, and high seas, often occurring between June and November? Their winds and flooding can wreak devastation and loss of lives.
Hurricanes
Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua signed an agreement with the United States in 2005 to enhance trade between the countries known as what?
Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA)
Caribbean islands now has __ many islands.
13
What is a mix between Catholicism and African culture?
SanterÃa
A number of Caribbean are not sovereign nations. What title do they represent for other countries?
territories
Which industry in the region may be profitable where volcanic ash has enriched the soil; coffee, bananas, sugarcane, and cotton thrive and are key crops.
Agriculture
Which Central American country has the largest population, with almost 13 million people?
Guatemala
Where did Columbus sail from?
Spain
What is a time of feast and celebration before lent?
Carnival
What is the smallest country being only one tenth of Rhode Island?
Saint Kitts and Nevis