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Body of water located between Mexico and the southern United States.
What is the Gulf of Mexico?
This sport attracts millions of fans throughout Latin America and is featured in the World Cup.
What is fútbol (soccer)?
This ancient civilization developed a 365-day calendar and built stepped pyramids in the Yucatán Peninsula.
Who were the Mayans?
This Latin American country has a communist government rule by one political party.
What is Cuba?
Farming crops and extracting minerals are examples of these two major economic activities in Latin America.
What are agriculture and mining?
Name two major cities located in Latin America.
What is Mexico City, Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro, Panama City, or Havana?
This Mexican celebration honors loved ones who have passed away and includes colorful decorations and traditions.
What is Día de los Muertos?
This ancient civilization introduced irrigation systems to improve farming.
Who were the Aztecs?
These two brothers controlled much of Cuba's government for decades.
Who were Fidel and Raúl Castro?
This important waterway connects the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, making international trade faster and easier.
What is the Panama Canal?
This mountain range creates a natural barrier that makes transportation and trade difficult in western South America.
What are the Andes Mountains?
These two languages became the most widely spoken throughout Latin America because of European colonization.
What are Spanish and Portuguese?
Farmers living in the Andes Mountains created flat areas along steep mountainsides to grow crops using this technique.
What is terrace farming?
A government official gains unexplained wealth and receives special privileges unavailable to ordinary citizens. This behavior demonstrates a political problem.
What is governmental corruption?
In Cuba's economic system, the government controls what products are produced and determines their prices.
What is a command economy?
This river forms a natural boundary between Texas and Mexico.
What is the Rio Grande?
The construction of Gothic cathedrals and Brazil's Christ the Redeemer statue reflects the influence of this religion.
What is Christianity?
This staple crop originated in Latin America and spread to Europe through colonization and the Columbian Exchange.
What are potatoes?
In this form of government, political power is concentrated in the hands of one ruler, and citizens have little influence over major decisions.
What is a dictatorship?
A U.S. company plans to build a factory that assembles imported parts into finished products. This neighboring country would be an ideal location because of its manufacturing industry and proximity to the United States.
What is Mexico?
A business wants to transport goods from deep within the Amazon Rainforest to other regions. This physical feature would provide the most effective transportation route.
What is the Amazon River?
African traditions influenced music and food, while Europeans introduced new languages and religions. This is an example of-
What is cultural diffusion?
European colonists expanded plantations and cattle ranches but needed additional workers. They addressed this labor shortage by forcing these two groups to work.
Who were Native Americans and enslaved Africans?
Most Latin American countries use this form of government, which allows citizens to participate in choosing their leaders.
What is a democracy?
In this economic system, businesses determine what goods and services to produce based on supply and demand, with limited government involvement.
What is a free enterprise economy?