This is the name for Mexican cowhands. These individuals heavily influenced the American concept of a Cowboy.
What is vaqueros?
100
This term is used when referring to a narrow piece of land that links two larger areas of land.
What is an isthmus?
100
This is the name commonly used by people when they are speaking of the Caribbean Islands.
What is The West Indies?
100
This is the tallest mountain in South America.
What is Aconcagua? (22,834 ft)
100
Similar to the name given to the cowhands in Mexico. In Argentina these individuals are referred to using this name.
What is a Gaucho?
200
Southern Mexicans rely greatly on this practice, along with tourism to help survive the rough economic conditions present in this area of Mexico.
What is Subsistence farming?
200
This Central American country is known for its parliamentary democracy and its English-speaking citizenry.
What is Belize?
200
This is how many major archipelagos there are in the Caribbean Sea, and there names.
What is 3? (Bahamas, Greater Antilles, Lesser Antilles)
200
This is one of the capital cities located in Bolivia, it is known as the official capital of the country.
What is Sucre?
200
Emerging high up in the Guiana Highlands, this spectacular water display roars over the edge of a cliff and has become a very popular tourist attraction.
What is Angel Falls, Venezuela?
300
These are the three different mountain ranges that make up the Sierra Madre mountains in Mexico.
What is the Sierra Madre Occidental, Oriental, and del Sur?
300
This country is home to one of the more popular Mayan tourist destinations, the Mayan city of Tikal.
What is Guatemala?
300
This is the name given to the island in the Greater Antilles by the Spanish, and is currently home to separate nations.
What is Hispaniola?
300
Known as one of the driest places on earth, this region receives little to no rain due to the rain shadow effect and the Peruvian Current.
What is the Atacama Desert?
300
South and East of the Andes lies this dry, windswept plateau. It get very little rain and has poor soil. Therefore, its major economic activity is sheep raising.
What is Patagonia
400
These two geographical terms work together to effect the three economic regions of Mexico.
What is Latitude and Altitude?
400
This Central American country is known for avoiding conflict, after the majority of Central America won its independence from Spain in 1821. This country currently has no army.
What is Costa Rica
400
Spanish colonization in the Caribbean kick started the trade of many unique items and foods to and from Europe. The exchange of goods during this time period is commonly referred to using this term.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
400
When two mountain ranges converge and begin to run parallel to each other with valleys separating the two ranges it forms this geographical feature.
What is a Cordillera?
400
In this South American country the economy relies heavily on raising sheep and cattle. In fact, sheep and cattle outnumber people here 10 to 1.
What is Uruguay?
500
This city was built upon two islands in the center of Lake Texcoco. In this busy marketplace merchants traded gold, silver, and pottery.
What is Tenochtitlan?
500
These are the five Central American countries that the Mayan people inhabited from 250-900A.D.
What is Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras?
500
This is the term used to refer to the sections of the Panama Canal where the ships patiently sit while the water levels are adjusted in order to allow ships to pass through.
What is a lock?
500
This region of Brazil is shares the same biodiversity as the Amazon River Basin and is located between Brazil and one of its neighbors.
What is the Mato Grosso Plateau?
500
Also known as the Malvinas, Argentina fought over this territory with the United Kingdom and lost the war in 1982.