Physical Geogaphy
This is the easiest route to take from the Atlantic to the Pacific today.
What is the Panama Canal?
This is where most of the population of S. American is concentrated along, because of South America's rainforests and highlands.
What is the coast?
This country gained its independence by means of a slave revolt.
What is Haiti?
This term is used to describe a sudden overthrow of a government, often by the military.
What is a 'coup'?
This is the most prevalent religion in S. America. Name some other religions that are practiced.
What is Roman Catholicism. Other religions are Hinduism, voodoo, Protestantism, and various other pagan religions.
Besides being the highest waterfall in the world, this feature is unique to Angel Falls.
What is - the water flows from a cave below the cliff's edge?
This term is used to describe the blending of two religions. Provide an example.
What is syncretism? The image of the Virgin Mary worshipped as a pagan goddess.
This country in Latin America has a Communist gov't (since 1959, starting with 50 years under Fidel Castro) and has receive vast sums of $ from the Soviet Union to sustain its economy.
What is Cuba?
The price President Carter sold the Panama Canal for.
What is $1? average toll per ship $54,000
Actual toll for a major cruise ship (before additional fees) is between $150,000 and $400,000.
This term is used for a cattle herder of the Pampas Plains in the 19th century, known for their distinct attire and uncouth lifestyle.<Show where the Pampas Plains are on a map.>
What is a "gaucho"?
These two physical features are were the Amazon river begins and ends.
What are the Peruvian Andes (begin) and the Atlantic Ocean in Brazil (end)?
This was the largest civilization in pre-Columbian Americas. Explain where they lived.
What is the Inca Empire.
They lived in the Peruvian Andes. Machu Picchu is the most famous ancient Inca city.
This follows the Gulf Stream and trade winds in the Atlantic Ocean through the Caribbean Sea and into the Gulf of America.
What is the hurricane belt?
These 3 countries of Central America have a capital that with the same name in it.
What are El Salvador, Guatemala, and Panama?
These conditions influence the "hollow continent" effect in South America.
What are inhospitable/uninhabitable conditions (dense rainforests, highlands, mountains in the interior regions) force most of the population to be distributed along the coasts of the SA continent.
Specifically, the NW coasts and SE Brazil (1/2 the population of SA lives in Brazil)
<3 responses> 1)This feature is the driest desert on earth.2)This feature has the highest density of biodiversity of any ecosystem in the world.3)This feature aids trade in Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay.
What are the 1)Atacama Desert, 2) Amazon Rainforest, and 3) the Rio de la Plata?
Explain the social classes that emerged in Central/South America. Use terms: slave, peninsulares, criollos, and indigenous people
What is the highest level of society were the peninsulares (Spaniards born in Spain and given important positions in the gov't and church in Latin America), below them were the criollos (born in the Americas, but descended from Spain, then the indigenous people, and at the bottom were slaves?
These islands are part of the Greater Antilles.
What are Cuba, Jamaica, Haiti, Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico?
2 responses: 1)This century is when the Spanish and other Europeans arrived and conquered the indigenous people of Latin America such as the Aztec, Incan, and Maya. 2) This century is when Latin America fought and gained independence from Spain and other nations.
1) What is the 15th century?
2)What is the 19th century?
2 responses: 1)This country has 2 capitals. State them. 2) State the name of the person this country was named after.
1) What is Bolivia? Sucre (executive/legislative) and La Paz (constitutional and judicial)
2)Símon Bolívar aka "The Liberator" (one of the most famous revolutionaries and freedom fighters)
These two waterways were discovered in the 1500s to get around the tip of S. America. Name which one was more dangerous.
What are the Drake Passage and the Strait of Magellan. The Drake Passage was more dangerous due to high winds, strong currents, and icebergs.
These have a different culture from the rest of S. America because they were not settled by the Spanish, but were instead settled by the Portugese, English, Dutch and French.
What are Brazil, Suriname, and the Guianas? (Roman Catholicism is not as prevalent here as in other S.A. countries.)
These islands make up the Lesser Antilles.
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These are the names and capitals of the Central American countries?
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These are the countries and capitals of South America.
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