Section 1 & 2
Which region, which includes Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama, is the southern portion of North America?
Central America
What resources are significantly limited; Central America and the Caribbean islands must rely on these imports, limiting their development opportunities?
Energy
Which country in Central America has the smallest population?
Belize
1492. He thought he had reached
the Indies, or the islands near India. Therefore, he called the Caribbean islands the blank
West Indies
Caribbean food and cooking also reflect the region’s past. For example, slave ships carried foods as well
as people to the Caribbean. Now foods from Africa, such as yams and okra, are popular there. Also, in
Barbados, people eat a dish called balnk
Souse
What is the name of a thin strip of land that joins two larger land areas?
Isthmus
Who built vast cities with pyramids and temples in various Central American countries around AD 250 and abandoned most of them around 900, although the ruins of several ancient cities may still be found in the region today?
Maya
What is the term for the practice of leveraging an area's natural surroundings to attract tourists?
Ecotourism
Spain had little interest in the smaller Caribbean islands, but the blank
In the 1600s and 1700s, these countries established colonies on the islands. They built huge sugarcane
plantations that required many workers.
English, French, Dutch, and Danish
Once a Spanish colony, Puerto Rico today is a U.S. blank
Commonwealth
What is the name of the hundreds of islands that lay across the Caribbean Sea from Central America?
Caribbean Islands
Which year did the Spanish colonies of Central America declare their independence from Spain?
1821
What is the name of a mountainous country whose people live primarily in mountain valleys and near the northern coast?
Honduras
A slave revolt led by blank
eventually helped Haiti win
independence from France in 1804.
Toussaint-L’Ouverture
Haiti occupies the western part of the island of Hispaniola. Haiti’s capital, blank
Portau-Prince
What is the definition of a vast collection of islands?
Archipelago
The Spanish colonies of Central America declared independence from Spain, but much of the territory stayed united, known as what?
United Provinces of Central America
What is the term used to describe a dispute between two or more groups within a country?
Civil War
Along with independence came freedom for the slaves in Ideas of independence then spread throughout the Americas.
Haiti
Haiti is the poorest country in the Americas. Its people have suffered under a string of corrupt
governments during the last two centuries. Violence, political unrest, and poverty have created many
political blank
Refugee
What do the four main islands of Puerto Rico, Hispaniola, Jamaica, and Cuba make up?
Greater Antilles
Around which years did Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala separate?
1838 to 1839
Which people's country has been working to rebuild itself since the conclusion of the conflict in 1992, with one advantage being the country's fertile soil, which allows them to grow and export commodities such as coffee and sugarcane?
El Salvador
By the mid-1800s, the blank had gained independence.
Dominican Republic
On
a catastrophic earthquake struck close to Port-au-Prince. The quake devastated
Haiti, leaving about 230,000 Haitians dead, 300,000 injured, and over a million homeless. Today,
January, 12, 2010
What are the various smaller islands in the Caribbean made of?
Lesser Antilles
Panama remained a part of Colombia until which year?
1903
Which South American country has been rebuilding since the end of a civil war, which concluded in 1990 and is now democratic?
Nicaragua
The blank
won Cuba from
Spain, but Cuba gained independence in 1902.
United States
The Dominican Republic occupies the eastern part of Hispaniola. The capital is blank
Santo Domingo
What is the name of an island group in the Atlantic Ocean southeast of Florida that includes nearly 700 islands and thousands of reefs?
Bahamas
What year did Belize win independence from Britain?
1981
Which South American country has a history of peace, a stable democratic administration, and no army?
Costa Rica
blank gained independence in 1902.
Cuba
Cuba is the largest and most populous country in the Caribbean. It is located just 92 miles (148 km)
south of Florida. blank Havana, the capital, is the country’s largest and most important city.
Havana
Many Caribbean islands are actually the summits of underwater mountains and volcanoes, whilst others originated as coral reefs that were progressively pushed up to form flat limestone islands. What has pushed this region's land up out of the sea over millions of years?
Colliding Tectonic Plates
In the early to mid-1900s, which American business controlled the majority of Central American banana production?
United Fruit Company
What is the name of the structure that connects the Pacific Ocean, Caribbean Sea, and Atlantic Ocean? The United States completed its construction in 1914, and it has long played a vital role in the region's economics and politics.
Panama Canal
Languages spoken in the region reflect a colonial heritage. Spanish, English, or French as well as
mixtures of European and African languages are spoken on many islands. For example, Haitians speak blank
French Creole
Cuba has been run by a Communist government since blank
Fidel Castro
What is the name of a moist, high-elevation tropical forest characterized by low clouds?
Cloud Forest
What is the name of Central America's chocolate source?
Cacao
When Christopher Columbus discovered blank in 1492,
America
Creole is a blank or a regional variety of a language.
Dialect
Today the government still controls the economy. Most of Cuba’s farms are organized as blank
Cooperative
What is the name of a tropical storm that brings powerful winds, heavy rain, and high seas, often occurring between June and November? Their winds and flooding can wreak devastation and loss of lives.
Hurricanes
Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua signed an agreement with the United States in 2005 to enhance trade between the countries known as what?
Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA)
1492, he actually discovered the Caribbean islands.
These islands now include blank independent countries
13
The region’s past is also reflected in the religions people practice. Former French and Spanish territories
have large numbers of Catholics. People also practice a blend of Catholicism and traditional African
religions. One blended religion is blank
Santería
The rest of the Caribbean islands are small countries. balnk
is the largest of the remaining Caribbean
countries.
Jamaica
Which industry in the region may be profitable where volcanic ash has enriched the soil; coffee, bananas, sugarcane, and cotton thrive and are key crops.
Agriculture
Which Central American country has the largest population, with almost 13 million people?
Guatemala
Christopher Columbus first sailed into the Caribbean Sea from in blank
1492
Spain
People on the Caribbean islands celebrate a variety of holidays. One of the biggest and most widespread
is blank
Carnival
The smallest country is blank
It is not even one-tenth the size of Rhode Island,
the smallest U.S. state!
Saint Kitts and Nevis