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Central America
The Caribbean
100
In this season, the region is usually very rainy.
What is summer?
100
This country has a communist government which controls the economy and media outlets.
What is Cuba?
100
A large group of islands.
What is archipelago?
100
The official language of most Central American countries.
What is Spanish?
100
The basis of the colonial economy on the Caribbean islands.
What is sugarcane?
200
The two reasons travel through Central America is difficult.
What are mountainous land and lack of good water routes?
200
The most populous country in Central America, it is still recovering from a conflict between rebels and the government.
What is Guatemala?
200
Creole is an example of this regional variety of language.
What is dialect?
200
The most prevalent religion in the region.
What is Catholicism?
200
This European country claimed most of the large islands in the Caribbean?
What is Spain?
300
Most Caribbean islands are actually these two geographic features.
What are underwater mountains and volcanoes?
300
These two countries make up the island of Hispaniola.
What are Haiti and the Dominican Republic?
300
A narrow strip of land that connects two larger land areas.
What is isthmus?
300
Because wealthy landowners continued to control many central American countries after they gained independence, this happened.
What is civil war?
300
The islands of Cuba, Hispaniola, Puerto Rico, and Jamaica.
What is the Greater Antilles?
400
Cloud forests are found here.
What are highland regions?
400
This Central American country has a history of peace and stability.
What is Costa Rica?
400
People of mixed European and Indian ancestry.
What are mestizos?
400
These people built the first cities in Central America.
Who are the Maya?
400
This is the reason economic development of the region is limited.
What are few energy resources?
500
The group of smaller islands that stretch from the Virgin Islands to Trinidad and Tobago.
What is the Lesser Antilles?
500
The least populous country in Central America, it supports ecotourism.
What is Belize?
500
A blend of Catholicism and traditional African religions.
What is santeria?
500
Central America is actually the southern part of this.
What is North America?
500
Ideas of independence in the Americas were sparked by a slave revolt in this country.
What is Haiti?