Section 1
What is the region that is south of North America?Seven countries makeup this region, Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama.
Central America
What is the third island group that lies in the Atlantic Ocean southeast of Florida. It includes nearly 700 islands and thousands of reefs?
Bahamas
What civilization built large cities with pyramids and temples by about AD 250. The civilization abandoned most of their cities around 900, but the ruins of many ancient cities still stand in the region today. People of the civilization descent still live in Guatemala and Belize.
Maya
What company had most of the banana production in Central America? To help its business, the company developed railroads and port facilities. This kind of development helped transportation and communications in the region.
United Fruit Company
What country is known uneven lands,high mountains and along the northern coast.
Honduras
What is the term for a narrow strip of land that connects two larger land areas
Isthmus
What is the term for having pushed the region's land up out of the sea over several million years?
Tectonic Plates
What year did the Spanish colonies of Central America declare independence from Spain?
1821
What is a major resource for chocolate for festivals in central america?
Cacao
What is the conflict between two or more groups within the country?
Civil War
Across the Caribbean sea lies hundreds of islands. What are those islands called?
Caribbean Islands
What is the term for a moist high elevation tropical forest where low clouds are common
Cloud Forest
The countries of CostaRica, Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala separated from each other in 1838 to 1839. What did they create when they all joined a unit?
United Provinces of Central America
In 2005 Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador,Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua signed an agreement. What was this Agreement called
Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA)
In what country do few people own land and are wealthy but most of the population is poor
El Salvador
What is the term for a large group of islands?
Archipelago
What is the term these tropical storms bring violent winds,heavy rain, and high seas. Most occur between June and November. Their winds and flooding where they bring very heavy destruction to their economy.
Hurricanes
what year did the United province's all separate?
1838 to 1839
What country is the most populous with 13 million people live there. Most of the people are Mezitos and speak Maya language.
Guatemala
Which country has been rebuilding since civil war in 1979 and a group of people called the Sandinista's overthrew a dictator and made a rule of election until rebels ended it in 1990 when the war ended?
Nicaragua
What large group contains the countries, Jamaica, Hispaniola, Cuba, and Puerto Rico?
Greater Antilles
What is the term that where people in Central America uses in the region and can be very profitable to the region?
Agriculture
Until what year did Panama remain with Columbia?
1903
What is the country with the least populated economy? The country doesn't have enough land for agriculture and has many tourist
Belize
Which country is known to be peaceful and doesn't have an army to fight.
Costa Rica
What is the smaller group that the Virgin Islands stretches Trinidad and Tobago?
Lesser Antilles
What resource is limited. Central America and the Caribbean islands must rely on a type of import, which limits their development.
Energy
What year did Belize gain independence for Great Britain?
1981
What is the practice of using areas natural environment to attract tourist?
Ecotourism
What canal connects the Caribbean Sea,Atlantic ocean,and Pacific ocean this canal area is the Country's most prosperous region?
Panama Canal