Middle America History
These ancient civilizations were home to the Maya and the Aztec.
What is Mexico?
This geological feature is described as a chain of volcanoes that dots the Pacific coastline of the region.
What is the Central America Volcanic Arc?
This is the capital city of Mexico.
What is Mexico City?
After its defeat in the Mexican-American War, Mexico lost a significant portion of its territory, which now includes these three U.S. states.
What are Texas, Arizona, and California?
This is the most widespread type of climate in Middle America.
What is tropical wet and dry?
The first people to settle in Middle America were descendants of Asian nomads who migrated eastward over this land bridge.
What is Beringia?
The Ring of Fire is formed as this large geological plate pushes beneath Central America.
What is the Pacific Plate?
This body of water connects the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea.
What is the Yucat'an Channel?
This group of countries, including Belize and Panama, all broke away from the United Provinces of Central America.
What is Central America?
This climate zone is found in most of northern Mexico and Baja California.
What is arid or semiarid?
This European country colonized Middle America starting in the late 1400s.
What is Spain?
This type of rock is created when molten rock rises to the surface and forms volcanoes.
What is molten rock?
This Central American country is home to the tallest mountain in the region.
What is Guatemala?
This island is part of the United States.
What is Puerto Rico?
This term describes how mountain chains can create dry areas on their leeward side by blocking rain.
What is a rain shadow?
This is the year Mexico won its independence from Spain
What is 1821?
This is the name of the tallest mountain in Central America, located in Guatemala.
What is Volcán Tajumulco?
The capital of Cuba.
What is Havana?
This island's capital is Kingston.
What is Jamaica?
This is the name for the period when most of the rainfall occurs in the Caribbean.
What is the rainy season?
This country was the first Caribbean nation to win its independence after a slave uprising.
What is Haiti?
This volcano had the second largest eruption of the 1900s when it erupted in 1902.
What is Volcán Santa María?
This vital waterway connects the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans.
What is the Panama Canal?
The "Antilles" is the name of this chain of islands in the Caribbean.
What are the Greater and Lesser Antilles?
This region is considered sensitive to climate change because it is a narrow strip of land heavily surrounded by the seas.
What is Central America?
People from this continent were brought to the Caribbean to work on profitable plantations after the indigenous population was largely wiped out.
What is Africa?
One way volcanoes have positively shaped this region is by making this more fertile.
What is farmland?
The Lesser Antilles are a chain of islands located in the waters between the southeastern coast of North America and this continent.
What is South America?
This is the name of the belt of volcanoes that forms part of the Pacific Plate.
What is the Ring of Fire?
This city is likely to have the most rain between Limón and San Salvador.
What is Limón?