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 region did Christopher Columbus call a name which people there had Indian settlers?
West Indies
What is the dish is from African which is made of pigs’ tails, ears, 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
These countries had much interest in the Caribbean islands. In the 1600s and 1700s, these countries established colonies on the islands. What were these countries?
English, French, Dutch, and Danish
What is a self-governing territory 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
What revolt eventually helped Haiti win independence from France in 1804. Along with independence came freedom for the slaves in Haiti.
Toussaint-L’Ouverture
What is the capital of Haiti? It is the center of
the nation’s limited industry.
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 France in 1804? It is the poorest of these Islands.It occupies the western capital.
Haiti
What is the term for someone who flees to another country, usually for political or economic reasons.
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 country occupies the eastern part of Hispaniola. The capital is Santo Domingo.The country is not a rich country. However, its economy, health care, education, and housing are more developed than Haiti’s.
Dominican Republic
When did the catastrophic earthquake struck close to Port-au-Prince. The quake devastated Haiti, leaving about 230,000 Haitians dead, 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,was the first permanent European settlement in the Western Hemisphere.
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 gained independence in 1902 from the United states?It is the largest and most populous country in the Caribbean and is the 92 miles south Florida
Cuba
What is the capitalof Cuba is the country’s largest and most important city.
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 language do Hiatians speak?
French Creole
Who made Cuba communist?
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
When Christopher Columbus discovered a region in 1492,
America
What is the term fora regional variety of a language?
Dialect
What is the term for an organization owned by its members and operated for their mutual benefit.
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)
How many independent countries do these islands have?
13
What is a blended religion for the French and Spanish?
Santería
What is the largest of the remaining Caribbean countries.
Jamaica
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
Christopher Columbus first sailed into the Caribbean Sea from what country in 1492? This country had small interest in the Caribbean islands.
Spain
What is one of the biggest and most widespread is tradition? This tradition is a time of feasts and celebration before the Christian season of Lent begins.
Carnival
What is the smallest country of the Caribbean islands.
Saint Kitts and Nevis