Physical Geo
This mountain range runs along the west coast of South America
What is the Andes Mountains?
Most people in South America live on this.
What is the coast?
This is the period in history (1500-1600s) when Europeans started coming to the Americas.
What is the Age of Discovery?
This economic sector refers to the manufacture of goods.
What is the secondary sector?
This is the name of Ms. Rhoades' bassett hound.
Who is Gidget?
This body of Water is located between South America and Mexico
What is the Caribbean Sea?
Most people in Central America live in these.
What are the mountains?
This refers to the trade of goods and ideas between the old and new worlds.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
This person is the head executive in a parliamentary democracy.
This is the capital of Ecuador.
What is Quito?
This mountain range is on Mexico's east coast.
What are the Sierra Madres Oriental?
To create more land for farming and grazing, Latin American farmers have used this method.
What is slash-and-burn?
This is the dominant religion of Latin American countries.
What is Catholicism?
Cuba has this form of government today.
What is authoritarian dictatorship?
He was the populist dictator of Argentina from the 1930s onward.
Most people in Mexico live in this feature.
What is the Central Plateau?
To farm on mountainsides farmers use this technique.
What is terrace farming?
This is the dominant language in Aruba.
What is Dutch?
Until the 1980s many Latin American economies had this kind of economy.
What is a command economy?
This is the full name of the current leader of Cuba.
Who is Raul Castro?
This country is closest to Antarctica
What is Chile?
This is a disadvantage of the tourism industry.
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This religion is practiced a bit in the Caribbean and was brought over by West African slaves.
What is voodoo?
This corporation inspired the growth of dictatorships and single-resource economies in Latin America.
What is United Fruit Corporation?
This was the biggest scandal of the Ronald Reagan presidency...it involved Nicaragua.
What is the Contra War?