This territory was originally occupied by many different native peoples and was torn apart by the Spanish conquest.
What is Mexico?
100
Urbanization factors that include higher paying jobs, better education and better medical care are known as this.
What are pull factors?
100
A process used by Native Latin American people to cut vegetation and burn debris to clear the fields.
What is slash and burn?
100
An ancient technique, used by the Incas and Azetecs, for growing crops along hillsides and slopes. This process reduces soil erosion.
What is terraced farming?
100
This area is made up of different species of trees, has a unique ecosystem, with plants and animals living in balance
What is the Rain Forest?
200
This country has the 8th largest world economy and an elected female president.
What is Brazil?
200
Mexico is a vital member of this organization. It created a huge zone of cooperation on trade and economic issues.
What is NAFTA?
200
This issue takes place outside official channels. It offers no benefits or protection to workers.
What is an informal economy?
200
Established in Trinidad. this combines music from Africa, Spain and the Caribbean. It includes steel drums and guitars and has improvised lyrics.
What is Calypso?
200
The Rocky Mountains are called this in Latin America.
What is the Andes Mountains?
300
This area was originally settled by the Mayan's and in 1492 Christopher Columbus established Spanish rule creating sugar plantations here.
What is Central America and the Caribbean?
300
A place from which important ideas spread. Latin America is one of these.
What is a cultural hearth?
300
This term describes when a culture has several wealthy citizens and several poor citizens with little in between.
What is income gap?
300
The most colorful feast day in Brazil. Celebrated in many Christian countries just before Lent.
What is Carnival?
300
These include poor medical care, poor education, low paying jobs and ownership of land by a few.
What is Push factors?
400
Run by the Inca empire in the 1500s; Simon Bolivar lead this region's fight for independence in 1820.
What is Spanish-Speaking South America?
400
This process breaks up large landholdings and gives portions of the land to land-poor peasants.
What is land reform?
400
A growth industry throughout Latin America; especially important to Mexico and the Caribbean. Advantages of this industry include resorts offering jobs to locals.
What is tourism?
400
Throughout the 20th C many Latin American countries were ruled by this......a military dictator or political boss.
What is caudillo
400
Flowing about 4,000 miles from west to east, this river empties into the Atlantic Ocean.
What is the Amazon River?
500
This Latin American country is located on the West Coast of South America and runs the lower southern half of the coast line.
What is Chile?
500
This form of government is rule by military generals.
What is junta?
500
People of a mixed Spanish and Native American heritage.
What is Mestizo?
500
A martial art and dance that developed in Brazil from African origins.
What is Capoeira
500
The three (3) major island groups of the Caribbean are knows as:
What are the Bahamas, Greater Antilles, Lesser Antilles?