Latin America Geography
Located in the southern hemisphere with low elevation, this country has issues with deforestation of the rainforest.
What is Brazil?
This country is known for the development of suspension bridges and stone buildings
What is peru?
Highest percentage practiced religion in Latin America. (specific)
What is Roman Catholicism?
Latin America makes a lot of money from this
What is tourism/service industry?
This term describes the government of Cuba
What is unlimited/totalitarian?
This river’s massive rainforest basin affects climate, transportation, and economic opportunities for surrounding countries.
What is the Amazon River?
This region of Latin America contains Costa Rica, Belize, and Panama.
What is central America?
Name 2 Latin American cultural celebrations
What are Day of The Dead and Carnival?
The Amazon Rainforest is facing this problem due to logging, cattle ranching, farming, etc.
What is deforestation?
These Three G's were the most common reasons European explorers came to Latin America
What are Gold, Glory and God?
Most people in South America live where?
Was it the coast?
Name three countries that colonized Latin America.
What is France, Portugal, and Spain?
This reason explains why Latin American music blends African rhythms, European instruments, and indigenous styles.
What is the mixing of cultures through migration and colonization?
Name 3 key resources in Latin America
What is Oil, Coffee, Sugarcane, Copper, Timber?
What are the three regions of Latin America?
South America, Central America, Carribean
This country is home to Machu Picchu.
What is Peru?
Because of this historical process, Spanish and Portuguese became the dominant languages of Latin America.
What is European colonization?
What is the festival celebrated each year before the catholic tradition of Lent?
Is it the Carnival?
State the continents that were involved in the triangular trade and 2 things that were traded
Europe, Africa, Americas
Slaves and crops
Explain a socialist/communist government and provide example of a country.
This form of government in Cuba provides limited political freedoms, affecting how citizens participate in elections. ex: Cuba
These are the TWO geographic features that make up most of South America.
What are the Amazon Rainforest and Andes Mountains?
These were the three major ancient civilizations that shaped Latin America.
What are the Inca, Maya, Aztec?
Which is Mountain Range is the longest mountain range in the world?
Is it the Andes Mountains?
Why was the Panama Canal Built?
Was it to create a shorter route between the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean?
Describe Mercosur and explain how it impacted the economy of Latin America?
Helped economy in South America by increasing trade with members, decreasing trade with non members, and lowering tariffs