Section 1
What is the region that has 7 countries and is located in the southern part of North America?
Central America
The ________ Islands are located southeast of Florida and have 700 islands and thousands of reefs.
Bahamas
What tribe lived in Central America and built cities before the Americans came?
Maya
What is the name of the company that supplies all the fruit?
United Fruit Company
What country in Central America is known for its mountain ranges?
Honduras
What do you call a thin strip of land that connects two larger areas?
Isthmus
What has pushed regions land out of the sea for millions of years?
Tectonic Plates
When did the Spanish colonies of Central America declare independence from Spain?
1821
What is Central Americas Chocolate source?
Cacao
What do you call a conflict between several areas in the same country?
Civil War
What islands contain Honduras, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Panama, Nicaragua, El Slavador, and Belize?
Caribbean Islands
What tropical forest is moist and highly elevated?
Cloud Forest
After the Spanish colonies declared independence what did the remaining region call themselves?
United Provinces of Central America
What is another word for CAFTA?
Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA)
What country is still rebuilding after the war in 1992?
El Salvador
What do you call a large group of islands?
Archipelago
What water tornado occurs mainly in June and November?
Hurricanes
When did the countries of Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, El Savador, and Nicaragua separate?
1838 to 1839
What country has more than 13 million people in its population?
Guatemala
What country decided to turn into a democracy after a war that ended in 1990?
Nicaragua
The large islands of Puerto Rico, Cuba, Jamaica, and Hispaniola are called ___ ______ _______.
Th Greater Antilles
What resource is greatly influenced in the region.
Agriculture
What was the last year Panama was a part of Columbia?
1903
What country in Central America has the smallest population?
Belize
What country in Central America has a past of peace?
Costa Rica
What do you call the small islands that stretch the Virgin Islands to Trinidad and Tobago?
Lesser Antilles
This region relies on ____ imports because they do not have enough of it.
Energy
When did Belize gain independence from Spain?
1981
What do you call showing off your area ecosystem?
Ecotourism
Which Canal Connects the Atlantic, Pacific Oceans, and the Carribean Sea?
Panama Canal