Environmental Issues
The tropical ecosystem of the Western Hemisphere is called what?
Neotropics
The population of Latin America did this between 1950 and 1995?
Tripled
What ancient Mayan city was located in the lowland forests of the Petren?
Tikal, Guatemala
During the 1950’s 90 percent of Costa Rica’s export earnings came from these two things
Bananas and coffee
Where is the OSA Peninsula located?
Costa Rica
In South America most people live where?
Near the coast
Mexico, Guatemala, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia have the largest population of what group?
Indigenous
Brazil is now the second largest producer of this product (behind the United States), but the largest exporter of it.
Soy
Straddling the Bolivian and Peruvian Andes is an elevated plateau. What is the name of this plateau?
Altiplano
In Brazil the number of people living in rural areas today is nearly equal to the number in what year?
1960
While two-thirds of Latin America speak Spanish what language does one-third speak?
Portuguese
Chile is the world leader when it comes to this product.
Copper
South America has large upland areas of exposed crystalline rock similar to upland plateaus found in Africa and Australia. What are they called?
The Shields
Controlling the land in Latin America gives you what?
Political and economic power
What religion does roughly 90% of Latin America follow?
Roman Catholic
In 2014 Brazil was the world’s ninth leading producer of this product.
Oil
Situated in the Patagonia part of southern Chile is home to what park that includes mountains, glaciers, lakes and rivers.
Torres SEL Paine National Park
Latin America is noted for high levels of what?
Urban Primacy
This began in Columbia as an alternative to aerobics.
Zumba
In what year did Nicaragua elect Latin America’s first woman President?
1990