Vocabulary
The height above the level of the sea.
What is elevation?
System that allowed Spanish colonists to demand labor from the Native Americans who lived in a certain area.
What are encomiendas?
Location that Charles Darwin studied that resulted in the theory of evolution.
What are the Galápagos Islands?
Colombia is the world's leading producer of this gem stone.
What are emeralds?
One of the most popular instruments of Andean music.
What is the pan flute?
Protection against illness.
What is immunity?
A serious disagreement.
What is conflict?
Venezuela's main cash crop.
What is coffee?
British and Dutch plantation owners recruited laborers from these three countries to replace the once-enslaved workers.
What are India, China, and Indonesia?
Country formed in Tropical North after independence from Spain.
What is Gran Colombia?
A product raised mainly for sale.
What is a cash crop?
To move from one place to another.
What is to migrate?
Most ranching in the region takes place here.
What is the Llanos?
In Suriname, rebel groups--the descendants of escaped slaves--disrupted the country's mining of this important mineral in an attempt to overthrow the government.
What is bauxite?
Country that used to be a British colony called Guiana.
What is Guyana?
Large Spanish estates.
What are haciendas?
A tax on imported goods.
What is a tariff?
Trade winds are steady winds that blow from higher latitudes toward this imaginary line of latitude.
What is the Equator?
Under Spanish rule, this city became the capital of Colombia.
What is Bogota?
Native American city that Spain made capital of Ecuador in 1563.
What is Quito?
Steady winds that blow from higher latitudes toward the Equator.
What are trade winds?
A group of languages that enslaved people from various parts of Africa developed to communicate on colonial plantations. These languages were widely spoken.
What is Creole?
The largest country in the Tropical North region?
What is Colombia?
In 1819, this person became the first president of the independent republic called Gran Colombia.
Who is Simón Bolívar?
Descendants of escaped slaves who live in Suriname.
Who are Maroons?