Latin America Geography
Latin America History
Latin America Random
Latin America Environment
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
This city is one of the most polluted in the world
What is Mexico City?
100
True or False: Cuba's citizens can not vote at all.
False, Cuba's citizens can vote for local government but not their countries leaders.
200
This country is the only Latin American country that has English as their national language.
What is Belize?
200
This was the largest empire ever in the Americas
Who are the Inca?
200
This system of trade contributed to African culture spreading among the Americas.
What is triangular trade?
200
Latin America makes a lot of money from this, another word for people visiting the area
What is tourism?
200
This word describes the huge number of plant and animal species in Latin America
What is biodiversity?
300
The largest Caribbean Island, most people in this country live in urban areas because the government owns the farms.
What is Cuba?
300
This country funded the Panama Canal but no longer benefits economically from it.
What is the US?
300
They created a huge civilization throughout the Andes Mts
Who are the Inca?
300
The Amazon Rainforest is facing this problem due to logging, cattle ranching, farming, etc.
What is deforestation?
300
This a term for why people LEAVE their home country
What is a "push factor"?
400
This mountain range is the largest in Latin America.
What is the Andes Mountains?
400
This region of Latin America contains Costa Rica and Panama.
What is Central America?
400
These TWO European countries colonized Latin America
What are Spain and Portugal?
400
This country is known as "Land of Volcanoes."
What is Nicaragua?
400
This man-made canal allows boats to pass through the Americas much faster
What is the Panama Canal?
500
These are the TWO geographic features that make up most of South America.
Amazon Basin/Rainforest and Andes Mountains
500
The Aztec city that flourished between A.D. 1325 and 1521, it is where Mexico City now stands
What is Tenochtitlan?
500
This Latin American country is where Encanto takes place
What is Colombia?
500
These natural disasters have a major impact on Caribbean Island and Central American countries.
What are hurricanes, mudslides, and earthquakes.
500
These cash crops are major exports of Latin American countries.
What are coffee and sugar cane crops?