Central America
Name the countries that make up Central America.
What are Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama?
The group of citizens in early Mexico were born in Mexico, but of Spanish descent.
Who are criollos?
This body of water touches all of the Central American countries except Belize.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
These are the three main groups of the West Indies.
What are the Bahamas, the Greater Antilles, and the Lesser Antilles?
These are the colors of the Mexican flag.
What are red, white, and green?
What is El Salvador?
The group of citizens in early Mexico were born in Spain but now citizens of Mexico.
Who are peninsulares?
This body of water is nestled in between Central America and the West Indies.
What is the Caribbean Sea?
This is the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere.
What is Haiti?
This is the largest volcano in Mexico.
What is Mount Orizaba?
This is the largest Central American country.
What is Nicaragua?
The mountain range in Mexico that lies in the western portion of the country.
What is Sierra Madre Occidental?
This body of water is named for this Middle American country.
What is the Gulf of Mexico?
This nation was the first nation in the Western Hemisphere to introduce communism.
What is Cuba?
NAFTA is an acronymn for this.
This country first earned the nickname "Banana Republic".
What is Honduras?
The group of citizens in Mexico who were of mixed Spanish and Native ancestry.
Who are the mestizos?
This body of water is to the east of the lesser Antilles islands.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
This large island contains two different countries.
What is Hispaniola?
These two countries share the island of Hispanola.
What are Haiti and the Dominican Republic?
This country has the highest per capita GDP in Central America.
What is Costa Rica?
Name the three regions Mexico is divided into.
What are Northern Mexico, Mesa Central, and Southern Mexico?
This waterway was constructed by the United States and was finished in 1920.
What is the Panama Canal?
This Caribbean island is the location of the famous port of Port Royal.
What is Jamaica?
This organization was formed to replace the GATT.
What is the World Trade Organization?