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Vocabulary 1
Vocabulary 2
People & Places
Mexico
Central America
100
A fierce tropical storm with high winds and heavy rains
What is a hurricane?
100
Large farms that raise a single crop for money
What is a plantation?
100
The president of Mexico elected in 2000
Who is Vicente Fox?
100
Mexico forms the land bridge that connects North America and _________________.
South America
100
The dictator of communist Cuba
Who is Fidel Castro?
200
Serious air pollution caused by a mixture of fog and chemicals
What is smog?
200
A narrow strip of land that connects two large landmasses
What is a land bridge?
200
Famous Mexican mural painter
Who is Diego Rivera?
200
Mexico was a colony of this European country.
What is Spain?
200
Music created by enslaved Africans in the West Indes
What is calypso?
300
Crops grown to sell rather than be eaten by the growers
What are commercial crops?
300
A form of writing developed by the Mayans with signs and symbols
What is hieroglyphics?
300
A modern writer whose poems and stories reflect the values of Mexico's people
Who is Carlos Fuentes?
300
This valuable Mexican territory was lost to the United States.
What is Texas?
300
Least populated country in Central America
What is Belize?
400
A band that plays traditional Mexican music
What is a mariachi?
400
Cowhands who developed the tools for ranching
What are vaqueros?
400
Volcano that erupted in 2000
What is El Popo?
400
Because the Olmec had no metals, they carved with _________________.
What is obsidian?
400
This Central American Country was part of Columbia for decades.
What is Panama?
500
Topmost layer of the rainforest
What is the canopy?
500
Mexico's form of government
What is a federal republic?
500
The group of people there to meet Christopher Columbus when he arrived in 1492.
What is the Taino?
500
The Maya built the steps in the temple of Kukulcan to correspond to the ________________.
What is the number of days in a year?
500
The islands of the West Indies are really
What is the tops of mountains.