Climate zones in South American are unique to the rest of the world in that they are described this way...
What is vertically?
100
Settlements built out of any available materials by squatters, on private land.
What are favelas?
100
Name three countries of Central America...
What is Costa Rica, Honduras, Panama, Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Mexico?
100
A form of "stitched resistance"..
What is an arpillera?
100
British explorer who spent years in Brazil looking for a lost city...
Who is Col. Percy Fawcett?
200
The coldest of the climate zones in South America...
What is tierra nevado?
200
The largest city in the Southern Hemisphere..
What is Sao Paulo?
200
Name 4 countries of South America...
What is Brazil, Chile, Peru, Argentina, Bolivia, Columbia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Uruguay, Guyana, Suriname, Venezuela, & French Guiana?
200
Dictator responsible for the "disappearance" of thousands in Chile...
What is General Augusto Pinochet?
200
The lost South American city that a British explorer tried to locate...
What is The Lost City of Z?
300
Most people in South America live in this climate zone...
What is tierra caliente?
300
Officials in Brazil are bulldozing favelas in Rio for what reason?
What is to make ready for the 2016 Olympics?
300
South America lies in these 2 hemispheres...
What is southern and western hemispheres?
300
Form of music that has gained traction in Central & South America, helping to create social change..
What is afroreggae?
300
The Amazon flows from these two directions (compass headings & physical geographic features)
What is west to east; from the Andes mountains to the Atlantic Ocean?
400
The United States and Brazil share many things in common; yet Brazil has this one vegetation type that the US does not...
What is tropical rainforest?
400
Match the name with the country and event or situation:
1. Col. Arbenz =
2. U2 =
3. Mayans=
What is:
1. Guatemalan president painted as a communist for not giving in to CIA/UFCO demands..
2. Rock group that wrote a song illustrating the arpileras movement and the "disappeared ones".
3. One of the largest, most complex civilizations ever in Central America; irradicated and abandoned their cities due to overpopulation, corruption, tribal war, disease, and climate change.
400
Population in South America is characterized as being here…and why...
What is on the coasts, due to formidable mountain ranges and difficult interior terrain?
400
Company that held over 70% of Guatemalan land at one time, responsible in part for a coup d'etat...
What is the United Fruit Company?
400
What is the general purpose of the Panama Canal?
What is it connects the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, cuts travel time for ships who previously had to go over Cape Horn, and most importantly, it opens up trade markets.
500
Overpopulation, environmental degradation, and political corruption in Central and South America have resulted in these three things...
What is widespread native displacement, irradication of entire cultures, overfarming, disease, pollution, drug crime, murders….
500
US foreign policy and protection of economic interests in Central and South America in the first half of the 20th century was influenced by what three parties?
What is the United Fruit Company, the CIA, President Teddy Roosevelt, President Eisenhower, the Dulles brothers, Edward Bernays, John Moors Cabot.
500
The largest of Brazil's geographic regions...
What is the Mato Grasso?
500
The 10-year period of peace and democracy in Guatemala between 1945 & 1955 is called this...
What is "10 years of Springtime?"
500
Native American ethnicity native to Chile, Argentina, and Bolivia..built and occupied Machu Peccu..