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What is electricity generated from the energy of moving water?
What is Hydro-electric power
100
Who was the Spanish conquistador who defeated the Aztec empire and claimed Mexico for Spain?
What is Hernan Cortes
100
What is the second longest river in the world, which flows about 4,000 miles?
What is Amazon river
100
What is the value of goods and services produced in a country in a year?
What is GDP
100
What is the largest Spanish speaking country in the world?
What is Mexico
200
What was the movement of plants, animals, and diseases between Europe and the Americas?
What is Columbian Exchange
200
Who were the highly developed civilizations that developed accurate calendars, and used astronomical observations to predict solar eclipses?
What is Mayans
200
What is the longest mountain chain in the world?
What is Andes
200
What is the controversy with slash-and-burn farming?
What is Combined with all of the rain, the soil loses its nutrients within two years.
200
What are makeshift communities on the edge of cities?
What is Shanty towns
300
What is the term for the blending of people of Native American and European descent?
What is Mullato
300
What is a 40 day fasting and prayer before Easter that takes place in Brazil.
What is Carvival
300
Latin American service industries have grown rapidly due to what industry in the Caribbean?
What is Tourism
300
What is the main argument against Maquiladoras?
What is ignoring labor and environmental laws
300
Middle America, Caribbean, South America List the THREE sub regions of Latin America?
What is Middle America, Caribbean, South America
400
What are companies that take unfinished materials or components and assemble and finish them into a product for export?
What is Maquiladoras
400
Who was the Spanish conquistador who conquers the Incan empire?
What is Francisco Pizzaro
400
What are THREE arguments against the deforestation of the Amazon rainforest?
What is danger to local tribes, plants, animal populations, increase in carbon dioxide, climate change
400
List THREE of the modern day challenges to Latin America's agriculture?
What is Unevenly distributed farmland Economic inequality Dependence upon foreign export products
400
What is the area where plates in the Earth's crust have collided for millions of years causing the formation of the Latin American landscape?
What is Ring of Fire
500
What were large agricultural estates owned by wealthy families or corporations?
What is Mitifundia
500
What country has more murders per year than any other country in the world?
What is Ecuador
500
The average commercial logging operation uses how much of the trees that they cut down?
What is 1/3
500
What is it called when the trees grow so close that they form a dense layer of leaves that keeps sunlight from reaching the forest floor?
What is Canopy
500
The highest point in what country is Mt. Aconcagua.
What is Argentina