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MISH MOSH
100
The Amazon River is the _____ longest river in the world.
What is the 2nd
100
This is the term used to describe people native to a land.
What is indigenous.
100
What religion is prevalent in Latin America?
What is Roman Catholic
100
TRUE OR FALSE: An archipelago is only one island.
What is FALSE.
100
TRUE OR FALSE: The eye of a hurricane is very windy and rainy.
What is FALSE.
200
What do canopies in the Amazon rainforest stop from reaching the forest floor? Is it: A. birds B. snakes C. sunlight D. rain
What is c. sunlight
200
The Europeans who claimed parts of Latin America for Spain were called
What are conquistadors.
200
___________ is celebrated during the week before the Roman Catholic holiday of Lent.
What is Carnival
200
The region of Central America extends from _______ to _________.
What is Mexico, Panama
200
The ________ started the Panama Canal in 1881 and the _______ finished it in 1914.
What is French, US
300
This is the term that refers to planting new trees where forest lands have been stripped and cleared.
What is reforestation
300
Name the three early Native American empires of Latin America.
What are: Inca, Maya, Aztec.
300
Name at least 3 of Latin America's (legal) agricultural exports.
bananas, sugarcane, coffee, cotton, pineapples.
300
Hurricanes that are capable of striking the US form over ________ as dry storms and drift into the Atlantic where they gain power.
What is West Africa
300
___________ are crops grown in large quantities to be sold or traded.
What are cash crops
400
Trees take in ______ and give off __________.
What is carbon dioxide, oxygen.
400
Where was the Aztec city of Tenochtitlan located?
On what today is Mexico City
400
What are the two main reasons the Spanish were able to conquer the early Native Americans of Latin America?
What are guns and disease.
400
Latin America is divided into three regions. Name them.
What is Central America, South America, West Indies.
400
A ____________ is artwork that is painted directly onto a wall.
What is mural.
500
__________ (of the rain forest) can result in less carbon dioxide intake, which could lead to the acceleration of global warming.
What is deforestation.
500
What is a common theme from the indigenous tribes the class researched?
protecting land, ancestral spiritual customs, living off the land, artifacts to sell, government taking way land / or respecting it.
500
Many Latin American families are ____________, meaning male-headed or male-dominated.
What is patriarchal.
500
TRUE OR FALSE: Cuba is part of the Greater Antilles.
What is TRUE
500
The Panama Canal connects which two bodies of water?
What are Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.