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100
The top layer of a rainforest
What is a canopy?
100
These regions make up Latin America.
What is Central America, the Caribbean, and South America?
100
The four megacities of Latin America
What are Mexico City, Lima, Sao Paulo, Rio de Janiero?
100
Most people in Latin America speak this language.
What is Spanish?
100
Three staple crops of Latin America
What is cacao/coffee, bananas, sugar, tropical fruit?
200
Mesa
What is a small, steep sided plateau?
200
The second longest river in the world.
What is the Amazon River?
200
The present day country that is home to the Inca civilization
What is Peru?
200
The people of Brazil speak what language.
What is Portuguese?
200
Three countries that lay claims to islands in the Caribbean
What is US, France, Netherlands, United Kingdom?
300
mestizo
What is people who were a mix of Spanish and Native American ancestry?
300
The mountains along Mexico's Pacific Coast
What are the Sierra Madre Occidentals?
300
The only two landlocked countries in South America
What are Bolivia and Paraguay?
300
A free public festival held across Latin America usually following lent.
What is Carnival?
300
Central America is an example of what kind of landform.
What is an isthmus?
400
campesino
What is a poor migrant farmer?
400
Two ways the Caribbean islands were created
What is coral and volcanoes/mountains?
400
The two capitals of Bolivia
What are La Paz and Surcre?
400
One problem or challenge facing the people of the Caribbean today.
What is huge difference between rich and poor, lack of government control, weather, pollution, earthquakes, etc.?
400
Country whose main export is copper.
What is Chile?
500
maquilladora
What is a large factory along the US-Mexican border?
500
An area of South America known for its varied landscape and vast amounts of wildlife.
What is the Patagonia?
500
The four islands that make up the greater antilles.
What are Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola, Puerto Rico?
500
The reason Mexico has a problem with overcrowding.
What is people move to the city to find jobs, don't own any property, settle on someone else's land causes overcrowding?
500
Two unique features of Mexico's Yucatan Region.
What are tourism and limestone?