Vocab
Native people of a region.
Who are the Indigenous people?
An early civilization in Mexico.
What is Aztec?
The official language of most Latin American countries.
What is Spanish?
A waterway that connects the Caribbean Sea with the Pacific Ocean.
What is the Panama Canal?
Most countries in South America are this type of government where people vote for leaders.
What is a Republic?
Political Leaders who rule with total control.
Who are Dictators?
An early civilization in Central America.
What is Maya?
Name 3 types of popular music/ dance styles in Latin America?
What is Salsa, Tango, Bachata, Banda, Mariachi, Calypso, etc.?
This rainforest is the largest tropical rainforest in the world.
What is the Amazon Rainforest?
Often called the "Lungs of the Earth" or "Air Conditioner," it stores 48 billion tons of carbon dioxide and impacts global rainfall patterns.
What is the Amazon Rainforest?
A narrow strip of land, bordered by water on both sides, that connects two larger landmasses.
What is isthmus?
An early civilization settled in the Andes Mountains.
Who are the Incas?
The main language spoken in Brazil.
What is Portougese?
This line runs through the northern part of South America and divides the Earth into two hemispheres.
What is the Equator?
This South American country has had a history of political instability and changes in leadership.
What is Venezuela, or Argentina, or Peru, or Brazil?
The purposeful and permanent clearing of forested land, converting it into non-forest uses such as agriculture, grazing, mining, or urban development
What is deforestation?
European soldiers who explored and conquered in the Americas.
Who are the Conquistadors?
Exchange of Goods, Ideas, Plants, Animals between Europe and the Americas.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
True or false... The Andes Mountains are located in Central America.
What is FALSE? (Its in SOUTH America)
This country is the largest in South America and has a presidential government.
What is Brazil?
Buy and Selling Goods
What is TRADE?
Name one crop that traveled from the Americas to Europe.
What is corn, potatoes, chocolate, or tomatoes?
This religion was brought by Europeans and is widely practiced in Latin America.
What is Christianity?
A sea located by North Atlantic Ocean in the tropics of the Western Hemisphere, located south of the Gulf of Mexico
What is the Caribbean Sea?
Encompassing 19-33 countries and territories stretching from Mexico through Central America to South America.
What is Latin America?