Latin America Geography
Latin America History
Latin America Random
Landforms
Latin America Terms
100
This country has issues with deforestation of the rain forest.
What is Brazil?
100
This colonizing country introduced the Spanish language and Catholicism to Latin America
What is Spain?
100
This is the dominant religion in Latin America
What is Catholicism?
100
A piece of land surrounded by water on 3 sides
A peninsula
100
Which language branch is English from?
Germanic
200
This country's largest city has issues with air pollution.
What is Mexico?
200
Latin America and the Caribbean make a lot of money from this, another word for people visiting the area
Is this a primary, secondary, tertiary, or quaternary economic activity?
Tourism
Tertiary
200
Two crops that would be grown on a commercial farm
Coffee, Sugar, Cotton
200
A group of islands
Archipelago
200
Italian, French, Spanish, and Portugese are all
_____________________ languages.
Romance
300
This man-made canal allows boats to pass through the Americas much faster
Panama Canal
300
The island in the Caribbean that is now a territory of the United States (though it is not a state)
Puerto Rico
300
Two crops that would be grown on a subsistence farm
Corn, Beans
300
A flat area of land at a high elevation
Plateau
300
A language that is very basic, limited vocabulary, no native speakers, for business
pidgin
400
What is this called?
AND how is it different from a slum?
Favela
No legal standing; no land ownership
400
The largest Caribbean Island, led by Fidel Castro for many years; it has a command economy
What is Cuba?
400
The three groups that comprise the culture of Mexico
European, Indigenous, Mestizo
400
A narrow strip of land between two large bodies of water
Isthmus
400
Grey and Gray
Y'all and You guys
Soft drink, pop, and coke
Examples of Dialect
500
The river basin that is in Brazil and is experiencing deforestation
Amazon Basin/Rainforest
500
Dia De Los Muertos is a an example of a syncretic religious holiday because it combines traditions from which 2 cultures?
Aztec (or indigenous) and Catholic
500
A factory on the border of Mexico and the US that produces goods most likely to be sold in the US
Maquiladora
500
An example of a forward capital, a capital city intentionally located for political and geographical reasons
Brasilia (the capital of Brazil)
500
One reason a language might go extinct
AND one way it can be revived
Conquest
Radio, schools, signs, government support