Latin America Geography
Latin America History
Latin America Random
Latin America Terms
Latin America Environment
100
What is Brazil?
100
This trade introduced new foods to both Latin America and Europe. Latin America and Europe also traded animals during this trade, but the most important was Latin America getting horses from Europe.
What is the Colombian Exchange?
100
These two European countries gave the Language and religion in Latin America.
What is Spain and Portugal?
100
The largest river by discharge volume of water in the world, and the disputed longest river in the world.
What is the Amazon River?
100
This city is one of the most polluted in the world
What is Mexico City?
200
Located in the northern hemisphere, this countries main natural resource is oil and has issues with air pollution.
What is Mexico?
200
During this trade, Slaves were brought from Africa to Latin America, Plantation Crops were brought from Latin America to Europe, and Manufactured Goods were brought from Europe to Africa.
What is the Triangular Trade?
200
The Aztec Empire prospered in this country
What is Mexico?
200
An economic system/government where private ownership is largely forbidden and all industries and resources are under control.
What is Communism?
200
Latin America makes a lot of money from this, another word for people visiting the area
What is tourism?
300
Located in the northern hemisphere and is the largest Caribbean Island, most people in this country live in urban areas because the government owns the farms.
What is Cuba?
300
They created terrace farming and aqueducts.
What is the Incas?
300
Mixed with Native American and European ancestry
What is Mestizo?
300
An economic policy which blocks all trade. The US did this to what country?
Who is Cuba?
300
The Amazon Rainforest is facing this problem due to logging, cattle ranching, farming, etc.
What is deforestation?
400
This mountain range is the largest in Latin America and goes down the west coast of South America.
What is the Andes Mountains?
400
Was an Aztec city that flourished between A.D. 1325 and 1521.
What is Tenochtitlan?
400
This is the dominant religion in Latin American.
What is Catholicism?
400
Fidel castro was the leader of this country for nearly 50 years.
What is cuba?
400
This man-made canal allows boats to pass through the Americas much faster
What is the Panama Canal?
500
This geographic features makes up most of South America.
What is the Amazon Rainforest?
500
This introduced the Spanish language and Catholicism
What is Spanish colonization
500
This was a result of isolation from Europe, Asia, and Africa and effected the population of Latin Americans during the triangular trade.
What is lack of immunity to several diseases?
500
He was the leader of the spanish conquistadors that took over the Aztecs.
Who is Hernan Cortes.
500
This desert is one of the driest places on Earth
What is the Atacama Desert?