LA Countries & Capitals
The Caribbean Islands
Ch11 Geo Themes
Key Terms
Around the World
100
The capital city of Panama.
What is Panama City?
100
This type of music was derived from the songs of enslaved Africans working on plantations.
What is Calypso?
100
What island nation was the site of the failed Bay of Pigs invasion, CIA plots with exploding cigars, and the Cuban Missile Crisis?
What is Cuba?
100
Central America is actually this narrow strip of land connecting two, larger landmasses.
What is an isthmus?
100
This US state:
What is Maryland?
200
The capital of Honduras.
What is Managua?
200
The three main regions of the Caribbean islands are:
What are the Greater Antilles, the Lesser Antilles, & The Bahamas?
200
This agricultural practice is common in nations with poverty and low GDPs and results in destruction of habitat and deforestation.
What is slash and burn agriculture?
200
The Sandinistas and Contras were, at different times, this type of rebel organization.
What is a guerrilla force?
200
The total number of countries and national capitals combined in North and Central America.
What is twenty (not to mention the 574 Native American nations that exist in the US alone)?
300
This nation's capital:
What is Tegucigalpa?
300
The northern and eastern sides of the islands that face the wind and receive much greater precipitation.
What is windward?
300
This geography theme is most directly tied to seasonal workers (examples being agricultural and hospitality jobs).
What is movement?
300
The Bahamas can be thought of as this geographical landform.
What is an archipelago (also, coral islands)?
300
What important canal has historically facilitated the shipment of iron ore to refineries and mills to its south?
What are the Soo Locks?
400
This nation's capital...
What is Belmopan?
400
The name for the Native American, pre-Colombian peoples of the Caribbean.
Who are the Taino?
400
Identify three natural threats to the stability of Caribbean economies, government, and prosperity.
What are earthquakes, volcanos, and tropical storms?
400
This side of islands receives much less rainfall due to it being in a rain shadow.
What is leeward?
400
This subnational entity:
What is New Brunswick?
500
The capital of New Spain during the Colonial Era (before independence & nationhood for LA countries).
What is Mexico City?
500
Identify the three most populous Latin American nations...
What are Cuba, the D.R., & Haiti?
500
Identify the two Caribbean nations shown in this image...
What are Haiti and the Dominican Republic?
500
The pictured fortification in front of San Juan, Puerto Rico is positioned to guard this geographical landform.
What is a bay/harbor?
500
The HMS Terror (pictured here) was searching for this...
What is the Northwest Passage?