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Central America
Caribbean
Landforms
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100
This country has the spanish word for water in its name as well as its capital's name.
What is Nicaragua
100
The two countries of the Greater Antilles share one island.
What are Haiti and the Dominican Republic?
100
This allowed ships to pass between North and South America without having to go around South America.
What is the Panama Canal?
100
This language is spoken in most of Central America.
What is Spanish?
100
The United States won control of these two places after the Spanish-American war in 1898.
What are Cuba and Puerto Rico?
200
This country is the least industrialized of the 7 Central American Countries.
What is Honduras?
200
There are over 700 islands in this country. But none of them are in the Caribbean Sea.
What is the Bahamas?
200
These 3 disasters are common to the Caribbean Islands and Central America.
What are hurricanes, volcanoes, and earthquakes?
200
This is the name for the mixing of European and other languages.
What is Creole
200
They are the five capital cities of the Greater Antilles.
What are Havana, Kingston, Port-au-Prince, Santo Domingo, and San Juan?
300
This country has the highest number of native people in Central America.
What is Guatemala?
300
These are the two biggest industries of the islands.
What are tourism and agriculture?
300
This type of tourism is common in Costa Rica.
What is ecotourism?
300
This country speaks English-it's the only one in Central America.
What is Belize?
300
This country had the least native population when the Spaniards arrived.
What is Costa Rica?
400
These two alphabetical crops found their way onto plantations early in its history. They are still important today.
What are bananas and coffee or bananas and cocoa.
400
This created many of the islands in the Lesser Antilles.
What are techtonic processes (volcanoes caused by plates colliding)
400
This country has major deposits of bauxite-an important ore in the making of aluminum?
What is Jamaica?
400
This country of the Greater Antilles speaks French Creole.
What is Haiti?
400
This land formation is the largest of Mexico.
What is the Mexican Plateau?
500
These are the two countries with the highest populations of mulatto and/or African decent in Central America.
What are Panama and Belize?
500
These are the two types of economies in the islands. One is found in only one country.
What are Command and Free Market (or just Market)?
500
It's the side of Central America that is drier. And the dryness is caused by this.
What is the Pacific or western side. It is caused by the rain shadow effect.
500
These were the two non Christian religions that developed in the Caribbean that are mainly founded on the beliefs of African traditional religions.
What are Santeria and Voodoo.
500
This second largest city in Mexico was also the home of Mr. Westall's brother-in-law.
What is Guadalajara?