Latin America Geography
Latin America History
Latin America Trivia
Latin America Environment
Latin America Terms
100
This country has issues with deforestation of the rain forest.
What is Brazil?
100
What is the main language spoken in Brazil?
Portuguese
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
The largest river by discharge volume of water in the world, and the disputed longest river in the world.
What is the Amazon River?
200
This country's largest city has issues with air pollution.
What is Mexico?
200
The Cuba revolution is similar to what other historical event we've talk about in Social Studies during our European Unit?
Russian Revolution
200
The Amazon River flows westward towards the Atlantic Ocean.
False: (It flows eastward).
200
Which of these terms describes Latin America's climate?
A. cold
B. dry
C. hot/humid
C. hot/humid
200
What does USMCA stand for?
United States Mexico Canada Agreement
300
The largest Caribbean Island, most people in this country live in urban areas because the government owns the farms.
What is Cuba?
300
What year did Cuba gain its independence? Hint: The EARLY 1900s
1902
300
True or False: The jaguar is the top predator of the Amazon rainforest.
True
300
The Amazon Rainforest is facing this problem due to logging, cattle ranching, farming, etc.
What is deforestation?
300
Which event is described here: a failed military landing operation on the southwestern coast of Cuba in April 1961 by the United States and the Cuban Democratic Revolutionary Front (DRF), consisting of Cuban exiles who opposed Fidel Castro's Cuban Revolution
Bay of Pigs
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
True or false: Mexico City, the largest city in Latin America and the oldest capital in North America, sinks about 10-20 inches every year because it was built on top of a drained lakebed.
True
400
Used by native peoples and today by poor farmers in the Amazon Rainforest to get rid of trees, has unintended consequences including severe soil nutrient depletion, massive biodiversity loss, and the acceleration of climate change.
What is Slash- and-burn?
400
Which word matches this definition: the state of lacking the financial resources and material possessions needed to afford a basic, socially acceptable standard of living
poverty
500
This country is located northwest of Brazil
Cuba
500
What year did Obama visit Cuba?
2016
500
True or False: Brazil is the largest country in South America and the fourth largest in the world by both area and population
False it is the 4th largest country in the world by population.
500
What is the purpose of Cattle ranching?
to provide meat, dairy products, and raw materials for fabrics
500
As of January 1, 2026, the Mexican government enacted a new decree to protect domestic industries and adjust for trade imbalances with non-USMCA countries. A company based in South Korea wants to export steel products to Mexico. They find that, while similar products from the United States enter duty-free, their steel is now subject to a 50% import tax upon arrival at the Mexican border, making their products too expensive for local manufacturers.
Based on this scenario, what type of trade barrier is the Mexican government utilizing?
Based on this scenario, what type of trade barrier is the Mexican government utilizing?
Tariff