Physical Geo
The largest mountain range in Latin America.
What are the Andes Mountains?
The name of native people from a certain region.
What is indigenous?
To be a tourist in a country that practices sustainability and preservation.
What is ecotourism?
Taking raw resources from other countries to reuse/re-sell.
The development status most Latin Americans migrate towards.
What is more developed?
The effect of wildfires in the Amazon Rainforest.
What is deforestation?
The country that colonized most of Latin America.
What is Spain?
To change or make something better.
Countries recently less developed that have quickly expanded production and consumerism due to population growth and foreign relations.
What is newly industrialized?
Taking elements of culture and spreading it into another by trade or migration.
What is cultural diffusion?
The reshaping of mountains to be able to plant crops more efficiently.
What is terrace farming?
The act of going to a new country and implementing foreign policy and rules onto natives.
The act of improving current conditions in order to protect future generations.
What is sustainable development?
Trade agreements that resulted in more economic success in Latin America.
What is (NAFTA, CAFTA, MERCOSUR, USMCA)?
The ancestry of most people in the Caribbean.
What is African?
The climate zone of most of Latin America.
What is the tropical zone?
The trade of goods back and forth between Latin America and Europe.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
The name of factories in Mexico that provide more jobs to Mexican workers.
What is a maquiladora?
The passageway that resulted in more development in Panama and economic success in America.
What is the Panama Canal?
Factors of why people migrate OUT of countries. ex. War, Famine, Drought, Lack of jobs
What are push factors?
The low-lying grasslands where most agriculture takes place in Latin America.
What are the Pampas, Llanos, and Cerrados?
The name of oppressive rulers throughout the history of Latin America?
What is dictatorship?
The act of creating more product, machines, and factories to improve pay and working conditions.
The type of economic activity that Europeans used during colonial conquest.
What is extractive?
The location of Portuguese speaking Latin Americans.
What is Brazil?