Sub-field of geography concerned with the spatial arrangement of the seas, its resources and maritime boundaries
What is marine geography?
100
A set of islands grouped closely together, usually elongated into a chain
What is an archipelago?
100
Name of the U.S. military enclave located at the southeastern tip of Cuba
What is Guantanamo Bay?
100
What NAFTA stands for
What is the North American Free Trade Agreement?
100
A territory in South America, which is part of the European Union, from which the European Space Agency launches its rockets
What is French Guiana?
200
A 12-mile zone of seawater adjacent to a country's coast and held to be part of that country's territory
What is the territorial sea boundary?
200
Derived from the Latin word for "mixed," this term refers to a person of mixed European (white) and Amerindian ancestry
What is mestizo?
200
The group of islands claimed by both the United Kingdom and Argentina, over which both fought a war in 1982
What are the Falklands?
200
The three countries in NAFTA
What are Canada, Mexico and the United States?
200
The name of the island split between France and the Netherlands
What is Sint Maarten or Saint-Martin?
300
The offshore continuation of a coastal plain
What is a continental shelf?
300
Money transferred from foreign workers from outside a guest country to relatives back in their home country
What are remittances?
300
Panama was a part of this country until the U.S. helped gain its independence in 1903
What is Colombia?
300
Mexican farmers growing this crop have been particularly hard-hit since NAFTA went into effect
What is corn?
300
One of three independent states within the Netherlands
What is Aruba, Curacao, or Sint Maarten?
400
An oceanic zone extending up to 200 miles from a shoreline within which the coastal state can control fishing and mineral activities
What is an exclusive economic zone?
400
High-altitude valleys located in the Andes that provided fertile soils, reliable water supplies, building materials, and natural protection to pre-colonial Amerindians
What are altiplanos?
400
This Caribbean island was ceded to the U.S. following the Spanish-American War in 1898
What is Puerto Rico?
400
A foreign-owned factory in northern Mexico that assembles duty-free goods
What is a maquiladora?
400
One of five British territories in the Caribbean?
What is the Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Turks and Caicos, Anguilla, or Monserrat?
500
An international maritime boundary drawn between countries whose shorelines are less than 24 miles apart
What is a median-line boundary?
500
Vertical regions defined by physical-environmental zones at various elevations, particularly in the highlands of South and Central America
What is altitudinal zonation?
500
The year most Central American nations gained their independence