Geography
In South America, what is the longest mountain range in the world?
Andes Mountains
What was Mr. O' Hare selling?
Air
This vegetable is used in a lot of Caribbean foods, including a Cuban stew called quimbombo.
Okra
Explorers and colonist from Europe came to America. This time was known as
This group of people lived in southern Mexico in countries of Guatemala and northern part of Belize.
The Maya
What causes volcanic activity and earthquakes in Mexico?
movement of plate tectonics
Who was the protector of the trees?
The Lorax
This music became popular outside of Trinidad beginning in the 1950s
Calypso
This words means to include several cultures
diversity
This empire ruled Central Mexico from the mid- 1400s to 1521?
The Aztec
The word " El Nino" is Spanish for ______________
Christ Child
What is deforestation?
The process of cutting and clearing away trees from the forest
In Cuba, the people blended Catholicism and West African practices into a religion known as Santeria means
" way of the saints"
The official religion of Spanish and Portuguese is
Roman Catholicism
In Mexico, indigenous sounds have combined with European styles such as.
Waltz and Polka
In South America, in the Amazon has over 1,000 ________ which are rivers or streams that flow into larger body of water.
Tributaries
Deforestation.
This religion is practiced in Haiti and Dominican Republic that is a blend of Catholicism with West African religious beliefs.
Voodoo
The people of Antigua and St. Maarten speak this language
Dutch
Corn flour usually called ______ is used to make different breads.
Masa
Latin America include which areas:
Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, and South America.
People have been deforesting the Earth for thousands of years, primarily to clear land for ________ or ___________.
crop or livestock
Brazil
This contact between the Western and Eastern Hemisphere led to the ______________, a mixing of people, goods, and cultures around the world.
Columbian Exchange
The indigenous people had their own systems of religious beliefs, The people practiced ___________, which means the belief in more than one god
Polytheism