Latin America Geography
Latin America History
Latin America Culture
Latin America Environment
Latin America Terms
Europe
100
What ocean did Europeans have to cross in order to get to the Americas?
Atlantic Ocean
100
This colonizing country introduced the Spanish language and Catholicism to Latin America
What is Spain?
100
This is the dominant religion in Latin America
What is Catholicism?
100
This country has issues with deforestation of the rain forest.
Brazil
100
Religion and language are examples of what?
Culture
100
What type of government does Great Britain have?
Monarchy
200
This country's largest city has issues with air pollution.
What is Mexico?
200
This was the largest empire ever in South America
Who are the Inca?
200
Name 3 cultures or ethnicities that make up Latin America?
African, European, and the Indigenous people of the Americas
200
Latin America makes a lot of money from this, another word for people visiting the area
What is tourism?
200
What is a free enterprise?
When citizens are able to run a business with little to no government involvement.
200
What is a transportation corridor in Europe?
A 'highway' or 'route' like a river that is used for trade
300
The Panama Canal is a transportation corridor, through an isthmus, that connects which two oceans?
Pacific and Atlantic Ocean
300
Who are the Toltecs?
300
Dia de los muertos was influenced by which 3 Latin American empires?
Mayans, Aztecs, Incas
300
The Amazon Rainforest is facing this problem due to logging, cattle ranching, farming, etc.
What is deforestation?
300
This a term for why people LEAVE their home country
What is a "push factor"?
300
Of the GGG's, which one was the cultural trait that Europe brought to the Americas
God/Religion
400
This mountain range is the largest in Latin America.
What is the Andes Mountains?
400
What were 3 things exchanged in the Columbian Exchange?
Food, Animals, and disease
400
What was a major contribution to Brazil from England and is considered the most popular sport in the world?
Modern day soccer
400
If Cuba has a command economy, who makes the economic decisions in the country?
The government
400
Creation of the dish 'Menudo' is all thanks to the Columbian Exchange. The mixture of European and Latin American culture is called what?
Cultural Diffusion
400
What was a negative effect of the Triangular trade and European Exploration?
African Slave Trade
500
These are the TWO geographic features that make up most of South America.
Amazon Basin/Rainforest and Andes Mountains
500
The Aztec city that flourished between A.D. 1325 and 1521, it is where Mexico City now stands
What is Tenochtitlan?
500
Rumba, Samba, and Calypso was a result of which trading system?
Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
500
What is the most popular reason that people migrate to another country?
For a better standard of living/money
500
The basic support system needed to keep an economy going, including power , communications, transportation, water, sanitation and education systems.
What is Infrastructure?
500
Why was the European Union created?
To prevent conflict/Improve economy