Environmental Issues
Latin America Geography
Columbian Exchange
Latin America Economy
Latin America Facts
100
What environmental issue is this picture showing?
Air Pollution
100
This South American country is covered mostly by the Amazon Rainforest
What is Brazil?
100
This trade network between the Old World and New World, opened up thanks to Christopher Columbus's discovery of the Americas. Food, animals, plants, ideas, diseases and unfortunately, humans were traded during this time.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
100
What country in Latin America has a close to command economy?
Cuba
100
This is the dominant language of most of Latin America, thanks to it's colonizers...
what is Spanish?
200
What environmental issue is Brazil facing?
Deforestation
200
This country is just south of the United States, speaks Spanish and was home to the Aztecs and their capital city.
What is Mexico?
200
Europe, Africa and Asia are known as...
What is the Old World?
200
Economy based on traditions, trading and no technology
What is traditional?
200
What religion did the Europeans bring to Latin America?
Roman Catholicism (Christian)
300
What are some causes of air pollution in Mexico City?
Cars, Factories, and the Sierra Madre Mountains
300
Mexico, South America, and Central America are collectively known as ___________ America.
What is Latin America?
300
The Americas (North, Central and South) are known as...
What is the New World?
300
Government controls all businesses and other economic decisions (ex. Cuba)
Command Economy
300
What country colonized most of Latin America?
Spain
400
What are some effects of deforestation of the Amazon Rainforest?
Less oxygen, increased greenhouse gasses, animals and indigenous people lose their homes
400
This river flows through Brazil
What is the Amazon River?
400
Cocoa beans came from the ____ world to the ____ world.
what is new, old?
400
most decisions are made by business owners and individuals with some government rules
what is a mixed economy?
400
Brazil is unique in Latin America because this country does not speak Spanish, what do they speak?
Portuguese
500
What are some solutions to Air Pollution in Mexico City?
No drive days, plant more plants, electric cars, public transportation, and renewable energy
500
This geographic feature is the largest in the world and supplies the planet with almost 20% of it's useable oxygen.
Amazon Rainforest
500
Along with agriculture and livestock, what else was exchanged in the Columbian Exchange?
Culture (Language and Religion)
500
Type of economy based on competition, businesses make their own decisions about what to produce and whom to hire (ex. Brazil)
What is a Market Economy?
500
What country colonized Brazil?
Portugal