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What is the total value of goods and services in a country?
What is GDP.
100
Who is the leader of Cuba?
Who is Fidel Castro.
100
Name four factors that make up one's culture?
What are language, tradition, music, holidays, food, religion, etc.
100
Who built suspension bridges to adapt to their environment?
Who are the Incans.
100
What does "BOK" stand for?
What is Book Of Knowledge.
200
What does "GDP" stand for?
What is "gross domestic product".
200
In the Treaty of Tordesillas, who got the land east of the treaty line?
Who is Portugal.
200
What killed the majority of native american populations following exploration?
What is disease.
200
What is the Panama Canal?
What is a man-made waterway used to transport goods.
200
What other class does Ms. Haider teach?
What is robotics.
300
What does "per capita" in GDP per capita mean?
What is "for each person" (meaning it is the measure of the average output of goods/services per citizen)
300
In what century did most South American countries fight for their independence?
What is the nineteenth century (the 1800s).
300
Name two styles of Caribbean music.
What are reggae, calypso, soca, or salsa.
300
What has contributed to the deforestation of the Amazon rainforest?
What is ranching, farming, and logging.
300
Who are the other 6th grade social studies teachers?
Who are Ms. Jones, Coach Manning, and Coach Warren.
400
Who controls the economy in a communist country?
Who is the government.
400
What type of government does Cuba have?
What is an unlimited communist government.
400
What is the biggest reason why there are so many different languages in Latin America?
What is geographical barriers, like mountain ranges and rivers.
400
Name the five interest groups from our rain forest discussion.
Who are the environmentalists, ranchers, rubber tappers, government officials, and native amazonians.
400
In which rooms does Ms. Haider have tutorials?
What are rooms C103, C112, and E118.
500
What are two indicators of economic development?
What are literacy rate, life expectancy, infant mortality rate, or GDP per capita.
500
What is Simon Bolivar known for?
What is overthrowing Spanish rulers.
500
Fill in the blanks: First the European Powers explored, then they _______, then they ______, then they ______.
What is conquered, colonized, immigrated.
500
What is the name of the geographical feature that describes Panama?
What is isthmus.
500
Who was Ms. Haider's 8th grade U.S. History teacher?
Who is Mrs. Hoes.