Vocabulary
What is the proper term for protection against illness?
What is immunity?
Based on the map, where is Colombia located?
Student points at correct country
Who came over and took over The Tropical North?
Who are the Spanish
Why did enslaved Africans create creole?
Enslaved Africans needed a language to communicate with one another
What is the proper word for the definition, height above the level of the sea?
What is elevation?
What is the name of taxes on imported goods?
What are tariffs?
What is the name of the largest Tropical Country?
What is Colombia
What cash crops are important to the economies of the Tropical North?
coffee, bananas, sugarcane, rice, wheat, cotton
What feature of the Galapagos Islands makes them an ideal home to many unusual animals?
isolated and many have no human population
What are steady winds that blow from higher latitudes toward the Equator?
What is the system that forced Native Americans to work under Spanish called?
What is encomienda?
What river is the continents 3rd largest?
What is Orinoco River
Why were the Spanish more interested in colonizing Ecuador, Colombia, and Venezuela than Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana?
They had gold, more advanced colonization's, and better farmland.
How do trade winds affect the climate of Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana?
The winds keep coasts cooler than expected
What is a product raised mainly for sale?
What are cash crops?
What were the large estates called that Native Americans worked on?
What are haciendas?
What is the only country with coastlines on both Pacific Ocean and Caribbean Sea?
How did the plantation system affect the human and physical geography in the Tropical North?
It affected by bringing thousands of enslaved Africans and laborers.
Why is the Tropical North home to such diverse ethnic groups?
Indigenous people lived there before Spanish came, the Dutch, French, and English brought enslaved Africans, South Asian workers came to work as laborers
What is Venezuela
What is a group of languages developed by enslaved people on colonial plantations that is a mixture of French, Spanish, and African.
What is creole
The Tropical North consists of 5 independent countries. What are these country names?
What is Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana.
Who won freedom for several countries in the Americas, was known as "The Liberator".
Simon Bolivar
In what country is Angel Falls, the world's highest waterfall, located?
Venezuela
Why are Venezuela's Orinoco and Columbia's Magdalena rivers so important to people in the region?
What is because the tributaries make it easier for travel and they are surrounded by mountains