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100

What is the biggest country in Latin America?

Brazil

100

What type of economy do Mexico and Brazil have?

Market

100

What are some of the issues facing Mexico?

poverty, migration, and the war on drugs

100

What type of government does Mexico have?

Presidential Democracy

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What is the climate in Northern Mexico?

hot and dry

200

What Latin American country is 90 miles south of Florida?

Cuba

200

What type of economy does Cuba have?

Command

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What is the most deadly thing that was brought to Latin America via the Columbian Exchange?

Disease (smallpox)

200

What type of government does Brazil have?

Presidential Democracy


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What is the climate like in Brazil?

hot and tropical

300

Which Latin American country connects directly to the United States?

Mexico

300

True or False: A country is able to produce ALL of the goods and services that they need.

False

300

Who led the Cuban Revolution and when did it occur?

Fidel Castro, the 1950s
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What type of government does Cuba have?

Autocracy/Dictatorship
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What is Cuba's climate like?

semi tropical with rainfall

400

Which Latin American country is long, skinny, and on the western side of South America?

Chile

400

A limit on the amount of goods that can be traded.

Quota

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What were the causes of the Cuban Revolution?

U.S. and Spain had a war, they gave up territories but they were still under a controlling government, people were unhappy with the situation they were in. 

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What government is similar to the one that Brazil and Mexico have?

The U.S.
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What is the main environmental issue in Mexico and what is the cause?

air pollution- population growth and increased amount of vehicles

500

Which country is the Sierra Madre mountain range in?

Mexico

500

Why is Cuba's economy so bad?

The embargo that the U.S. has against them, controlling government, not much individual freedom

500

What were the effects of the Cuban Revolution?

They went from one dictator to another, they still were under a communist government, the U.S. imposed an embargo against Cuba.

500
Even though people can technically vote in Cuba, how come nothing ever changes?

They put the same people on the ballot/it is all communist leaders

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What is the main environmental issue in Brazil and what is the cause?

Deforestation- commercial development, logging, forest fires