Intense storms that develop over the Pacific Ocean.
What are hurricanes.
100
The present-day country where a successful slave revolt took place against the French colonizers.
What is Haiti?
100
The most popular religion in Central America and the Caribbean. (Be as specific as possible.)
What is Catholicism?
100
The capital city of Panama.
What is Panama City?
200
A small loan.
What is microcredit?
200
The landform that makes up Central America.
What is an isthmus?
200
The European country that colonized most of Central America and the Caribbean.
What is Spain?
200
The country Puerto Rico is part of.
What is the United States?
200
The capital city of Haiti.
What is Port-au-Prince?
300
A pre-Lent festival celebrated in Latin America. It includes parades, bright costumes, and dancing.
What is Carnival?
300
Term meaning the variety of living things.
What is biodiversity.
300
The most successful indigenous people of Central America (particularly Guatemala).
What are the Maya?
300
The only legal political party in Cuba.
What is the Communist Party?
300
The capital city of the Dominican Republic.
What is Santo Domingo?
400
Huge ranches or farms in Spain's American colonies.
What is hacienda?
400
Two seasons when hurricanes usually happen.
What is summer/fall.
400
The Cuban dictator who led a communist revolution in 1959.
Who is Fidel Castro?
400
The leader of a parliamentary government.
What is a prime minister?
400
The capital city of Cuba.
What is Havana?
500
The legal system to control Native Americans in Spain's American colonies in which certain Europeans were given the right to require certain Native Americans to work for them.
What is encomienda?
500
One of the two Caribbean countries with the largest tourist-based economies
What is Jamaica or the Bahamas.
500
The name of Haiti when it was a French colony.
What is Saint-Domingue?
500
Business practices that support paying workers fair wages and protecting the environment.