What is the system of writing that uses small pictures to represent sounds or words?
Hieroglyphics
100
What is the second longest river in the world?
The Amazon River
100
People called the _____ lived in Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula and surrounding areas between A.D. 300 and A.D. 900.
Maya
100
What is the most widely spoken language in Latin America?
Spanish
100
What is a large festival held each spring in countries in Latin America on the last day before the Christian holy period called Lent?
carnival
200
What is the narrow strip of land that links North and South America called?
An isthmus
200
The Panama Canal links ______.
the Atlantic and Pacific oceans
200
The Inca built their civilization around present-day _____.
Peru
200
What are people mixed of Native American and European descent called?
Mestizos
200
What religion has the most followers in Latin America?
Catholicism
300
______ covers much of Argentina and Uruguay, and like North America's Great Plains, the Pampas is used or cattle herding and grain farming.
Pampas
300
The islands of the Caribbean Sea, also known as the West Indies, can be divided into what three groups?
The Greater Antilles, the Lesser Antilles, and the Bahamas
300
What are the three major native groups in Latin America?
The Inca, Aztec, and Maya.
300
What is language formed by combining parts of several different languages?
Pidgin language
300
What was the second country in the world, after the United States, to play baseball?
Cuba
400
Brazil uses alcohol produced from sugarcane and gasoline to produce a fuel for cars called what?
gasohol
400
The region of Latin America is divided into what three subregions?
Middle America, the Caribbean, and South America
400
Who conquered the Aztec for Spain?
Hernan Cortes
400
Creole is an example of __________.
pidgin language
400
During the 1930s, Mexican artists, such as Diego Rivera, painted ______, or large paintings on on walls.
murals
500
The Brazilian Highlands end in an _____, a series of steep cliffs that drop down to the Atlantic coastal plain.
escarpment
500
Why are there frequent earthquakes and many active volcanoes in Central America?
Because 4 tectonic plates meet in Central America.
500
Which Latin American country gained its independence as a result of a slave revolt?What wealthy military leader defeated the Spanish and won freedom for the present day countries of Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, and Bolivia in 1819?
Simon Bolivar
500
Quechua is an official language of two countries?
Peru and Bolivia
500
What Mexican holiday is for people to honor family members who have died?