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100
A term used to describe a person who is a descendant of a region's first inhabitants.
What is indigenous?
100
The official language of most Central American nations.
What is Spanish?
100
Only growing enough food for your family to eat.
What is subsistence farming?
100
The European country that had the greatest effect on Latin American cultures?
What is Spain?
100
A huge party thrown just before Lent in many Latin American nations.
What is Carnival?
200
A person who has moved into one country from another.
What is an immigrant?
200
The religion of most of the people in Latin America.
What is Catholicism?
200
Some examples of these are Pablo Neruda, Gabriela Mistral, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and Isabel Allende.
Who are famous South American writers?
200
The first people to live on the Caribbean islands.
Who are the Ciboney?
200
This has caused a shortage of housing in Mexico.
What is urbanization?
300
A group of people who share race, language, religion, or cultural traditions.
What is an ethnic group?
300
A popular style of music in the Caribbean.
What is reggae?
300
U.S.-owned border factories located in Mexico near the U.S./Mexico border.
What are maquiladoras?
300
The three races that make up most of the people of Latin America.
What are Spanish, indigenous, and African?
300
To move out of one country into another.
What is emigrate?
400
A person with both Spanish and indigenous ancestors.
What is a mestizo?
400
The major language spoken in Brazil.
What is Portuguese?
400
The occupations of many people is Latin America.
What is farming?
400
This is what Christopher Columbus called the Caribbean Islands because he thought he had reached the Indies in Asia.
What is the West Indies?
400
Two Caribbean countries that share one island.
What is Haiti and the Dominican Republic?
500
The rural people of Central America who have little land of their own making it hard for them to support their families.
What are campesinos?
500
This is not as important to the people of Latin America as it is to people in the United States.
What is being on time/scheduling?
500
The occupation of many people that live on the pampas of Argentina.
What is cattle ranching?
500
Land forms in Lake Titicaca made by Native American groups in Peru to hide from the Incas.
What are the floating islands?
500
The Brazilian city that contains the world's largest community of Japanese outside of Japan.
What is Sao Paulo?