Latin America Geography
Located in the southern hemisphere with low elevation, this country has issues with deforestation of the rainforest.
What is Brazil?
Which ancient civilization is located in present day Mexico City?
What is the Aztecs?
Highest percentage practiced religion in Latin America. (specific)
What is Roman Catholicism?
This word means different
What is diverse?
The ________________ amendment is freedom of religion, assembly, press, petition, speech
What is the first amendment
This country has over 13,000,000 people
What is Guatemala?
This ancient civilization created Machu Picchu.
What is the Inca?
What crop is grown in South America, especially in Brazil?
What is coffee?
Florida, Baja Mexico and Greece are all examples of this physical geography?
What is a peninsula?
Way of life for a group called this _________
What is culture?
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 because it is a communist country.
What is Cuba?
Name the country that colonized Mexico and Peru
What is Spain?
This was a trading of plants, animals and diseases between the Old world and the New World.
What is the Columbian Exhange?
This started in England and led to machines taking over work that people did
What is the Industrial Revolution?
A ______________ is surrounded by water on three sides
What is a peninsula?
In this type of government, power is held by one person with no human rights
What is a dictatorship?
This European nation colonized the Latin American country of Brazil
What is Portugal?
Two negative things that came out of the Columbian exchange are ___________ and _________________
What is slavery and disease?
Where did the Industrial revolution begin?
Where is England?
Africans were brought to the US to work as slaves on plantations
What is the transatlantic slave trade?
The US is different from Cuba because we separate government into these
What are three branches?
This created Lake Gatun and connects the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. It is important for trade.
What is the Panama Canal?
This is the longest river in South America
What is the Amazon river?
religion, foods and language are all examples of this _________________
What is culture?
In this type of government, people have power by electing representatives
What is a republic