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100
What is the name of the city in Latin America, that suffers from severe smog?
Mexico City.
100
What is the name of the rain forest that habitats half of the worlds known plants and animal species in Latin America?
What is The Amazon Forest.
100
What are Telenovelas?
What is Spanish soap operas that are played nightly.
100
What is NAFTA and who does it include?
What is North American Free Trade Agreement. Mexico, U.S, and Canada
100
What is the definition of Grassification?
The conversion of tropical forests into pastures for cattle ranching.
200
What is the the name of the Mt. range that runs for 5,000 miles from northwest Venezuela to Tierra del Fuego?
The Andes moutains.
200
What sources of water supply Mexico city?
What is Mainly aquifers, with some water from rivers surrounding the basin.
200
What vegetable is most comonly used in Latin America?
What is Corn.
200
What are drug cartels, and where are they mainly located?
What is Powerful and wealthy organized crime syndicates, Colombia
200
What is the definition of Deforesation?
What is an area such as the Amazon forest that is being cut down, to make farm lands and grass lands.
300
What three countries in Latin America are affected by deforestation?
Mexico, Chile, Brazil
300
Which city in Latin America has been promoted as a sustainable city and what is it's nick name?
What is Curitiba, Brazil. The "green city".
300
What religion is Latin America mostly based on?
What is Catholic.
300
What is the name of the treaty that divided lands between Spanish and the Portuguese?
What is The Treaty of Tordesillas
300
What is the difinition of Machismo?
cultural traits ascribed to men(attractiveness to woman, it also includes ideas of honor, risk-taking, self confidence)
400
What are the boundaries of Latin America from north to south?
What is Yucatan Peninsula and the north, to Tierra del Fuego in the south
400
What is the name of the group that increased leveles of manufacturing for internal consumption and export in Latin America
What is CAFTA
400
The most famous soccer stadium in Latin America is?
What is Azteca stadium
400
What is the key factor that unifies Latin America as a region?
What is history of colonization
400
What is the difinition of Maquiladores?
Mexican assembly plants(motor vehicles,consumer electronics,apperel)that line the border with United States.
500
What is the name of the third largest Basin in South America, that flows through Venezuela and Colombia?
Orinoco Basin
500
What is the name of the coutry where the tropical hardwoods that are harvested from the Brazilian Amazon sent to?
What is Japan
500
What country has won the most world cups in Latin America?
What is Brazil
500
From which countries did migrants come to Latin America to work in Brazil and Peru?
What is China and Japan
500
What is the definition of Dollarization?
The process by which a country adopts, either in whole or in part, the U.S dollar as its official currency.