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Potpouri
100
A narrow strip of land that connects two larger land areas?
What is an isthmus?
100
A regional variety of a language.
What is dialect?
100
This fruit was very important to the economies of many Central American countries.
What are bananas?
100
Many people in Central America resented the roles of large, foreign-based landowners such as this one.
What is the United Fruit Company?
100
This marks the change in seasons in most of Central America and the Caribbean.
What is rainfall?
200
A self-governing territory associated with another country.
What is a commonwealth?
200
A time of feasts and celebration before the Christian season of Lent begins. It includes music, parades, and fancy costumes.
What is Carnival?
200
The United Fruit Company controlled most of the banana production in Central America during this half century.
What is early to mid 1900's?
200
The idea of independence in the Americas were spaked by a slave revolt in this country.
What is Haiti?
200
The poorest country in the Americas.
What is Haiti?
300
Cloud forests are found here.
What are in highland regions?
300
The official language in most Central American countries.
What is Spanish?
300
This Central America country has a history of peace and stability.
What is Costa Rica?
300
The reason most people in El Salvador live in poverty.
What is a few rich people own most of the land?
300
The Caribbean islands make up a large group of islands called this.
What is an archipelago?
400
The island group that lies in the Atlantic Ocean southeast of Florida.
What is the Bahamas?
400
Traditional foods in Central America are the same as in this country.
What is Mexico?
400
The year the United States finished building the Panama Canal.
What is 1914?
400
The export of rain forests in the region.
What is timber?
400
Puerto Rico was a Spanish colony, but today it is called this.
What is a United States commonwealth?
500
Two Central American countries with little land for agriculture
What are Belize and Honduras?
500
People in Central America of African descent most often live here.
What is along the Caribbean coast?
500
Most Caribbean Indians died from this cause.
What is disease?
500
The reason economic development of the region is limited?
What is few energy resources?
500
The island group closest to South America is called this.
What is the Lesser Antilles?