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The height of land above sea level.
What is elevation?
100
These regions make up Latin America.
What is Middle America, the Caribbean, and South America?
100
The three major native groups in Latin America.
What is Inca, Aztec, and Maya.
100
Most people in Latin America speak this language.
What is Spanish?
100
The cacao bean is used to make what.
What is chocolate?
200
A system of writing using pictures and symbols.
What are hieroglyphics?
200
The second longest river in the world.
What is the Amazon River?
200
The Inca capital.
What is Cuzco?
200
The people of Brazil speak what language.
What is Portuguese?
200
How does elevation effect temperature.
What is the higher you are the colder it gets?
300
The definition of mestizo.
What is people who were a mix of Spanish and Native American ancestry?
300
Name three landforms seen in Latin America.
What are mountains, plateaus, volcanoes, rainforest, islands, pampas, coral reefs, or isthmus.
300
An aqueduct is...
What is a pipe or channel to carry water from a distant place?
300
A free public festival held in the islands of the Caribbean.
What is Carnival?
300
Central America is an example of what kind of landform.
What is an isthmus?
400
A person who rules with complete power.
What is a dictator?
400
One major natural food resource which is also a popuar food in Latin America.
What is corn or maize?
400
The Aztec ruler
What is Moctezuma
400
One problem or challenge Latin Americans are facing today.
What is huge difference between rich and poor, lack of government control, no jobs, etc...
400
One thing the Aztec, Inca, and Maya did to please the gods.
What is human sacrifice?
500
The meaning of import...
What is to bring products into one country from another country?
500
An economy that relies on one resource or crop.
What is a one resource economy?
500
Most of the Native people of Latin America were conquered by people from which country.
What is Spain or the Spanish?
500
A cash crop is...
What is crops grown to sell to other countries.
500
To leave your country to live in another.
What is emigrate