This is the main natural resource in the Gulf of Mexico.
What is oil?
100
Name two countries in Central American or the Caribbean.
What is Cuba, Haiti, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Grenada, Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago, etc.
100
This region of Brazil has some of the most diverse plant and animal life in the world.
What is the Amazon River basin?
100
This is the dominant physical feature of the west coast of South America.
What is the Andes mountains?
200
Latin Americans can trace their ancestry to these 3 groups.
What is Europeans, Native Americans, and Africans?
200
Name one significant geological feature of Mexico (think physical geography).
What is plateau, Sierra Madre mountains, gulf coastal plain, Yucatan peninsula, etc.
200
This is one of the two major economic activities of the Caribbean.
What is agriculture or tourism?
200
Name one of the two biggest cities in Brazil.
What is Sao Paulo or Rio de Janeiro?
200
Define timber line.
What is the imaginary boundary above which continuous forest vegatation (trees) cannot grow?
300
Gographically speaking, most cities and population centers are located here.
What is coasts?
300
This Native American tribe controlled current day Mexico all the way up until the Spanish conquered them in the 1500's.
Who are the Aztecs?
300
This is a reason why tourism in the Caribbean does not help the people of the Caribbean.
What is low-paying, seasonal work, foreign corporations own hotels, airlines, and cruise ships so they get most of the wealth.
300
The Brazilian government has tried to stop the destruction of the Amazon Rainforest by...
What is prosecuting people for illegally seizing lumber, taxing policies used to encourage the maintenance of the rain forest, and ecotourism?
300
Name either Venezuela or Colombia's most valuable commodity.
What is oil (Venezuela) or drugs (Columbia) and I would even accept coffee.
400
The pampas of South America are...
What is large grassland plains, used to raise livestock.
400
The Mexican war for indepence was from this country.
What is Spain?
400
This is how a coral island is formed.
What is coral die, form limestone, which form coral reef, sand and sediment pile on top of it and eventually form an island.
400
This is one way in which Brazil's economy and industry have improved.
What is the development of gasohol, boosting the growth of industry and encouraging settlement in the interior?
400
This is the name for the grasslands of Argentina and Uraguay.
What is pampas?
500
Define El Nino.
What is an ocean current which warms the Pacific ocean and helps cause foods and droughts around the world.
500
Name two big reasons for the Mexican Revolution in the early 1900's.
What is "land, bread, and justice for all." The people wanted democracy, land reform, a new government, and economic reform.
500
Name the biggest reason why the Panama canal was built in the location it was built.
What is because it is the shortest span of land between the Pacific and Atlantic oceans in Central America.
500
Name one of the main drivers of poverty in Brazil.
What is lack of good high paying jobs in the cities, poor soil and climate in the northeast, and a lack of affordable farmland?
500
I have rice, coffee, and wheat. Are these all grown at the same elevation in the Andes? (Only one group gets to answer).