Section 1
what region is actually the southern part of north america.
Central America
what is an independent archipelago nation.
Bahamas
what was the name of the ancient civalizeation to make big temples and giant structures.
Maya
what controlled most of the banana production in Central America. To help its business, the company developed railroads and port facilities.
United Fruit Company
what is a mountainous country. Most people live in mountain valleys and along the northern coast.The rugged land makes transportation difficult and provides little land where crops can grow.
Honduras
what is it narrow strip of land that connects two larger land areas called.
Isthmus
what has pushed this region’s land up out of the sea over several million years.
Tectonic Plates
what was the year when mexico gained independence .
1821
what is the name of the pod that makes what we now know as chocolate.
Cacao
what is it called when a war happens because of a conflict of freedom
Civil War
what is the patch of multiple islands that stretch from the southern tip of Florida to northern South America called.
Caribbean Islands
what is a high altitude place called that is foggy and has a tropical climate.
Cloud Forest
what is the sovereign nation comprising present-day Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica known as.
United Provinces of Central America
In 2005 CostaRica, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador,Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua signed with what with the United States to help increase trade among the countries.
Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA)
what is the area with a few rich families own much of the best land while most people live in poverty. These conditions were a reason behind a long civil war in the 1980s called.
El Salvador
what is a large group of islands. Arranged in a long curve called.
Archipelago
what is it called when huge circles of waves and strong winds come together.
Hurricanes
The countries of CostaRica, Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala separated from each other in what years.
1838 to 1839
what has the most populous country in Central America. More than 13 million people live there.
Guatemala
what has been rebuilding since the end of a civil war. In 1979, a group called the Sandinistas that overthrew a dictator. Many Nicaraguans supported the Sandinistas, but rebel forces aided by the UnitedStates fought the Sandinistas for power.
Nicaragua
what do the four large islands of Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola,and Puerto Rico make up
the Greater Antilles
what is the practice called where volcanic ash has enriched the soil. Coffee, bananas, sugarcane, and cotton grow well and are major crops.
Agriculture
Panama remained part of Colombia until what year.
1903
has the smallest population in Central America. The country does not have much land for agriculture, either. But ecotourism—the practice of using an area’s natural environment to attract tourists— has become popular lately.
Belize
what has a history of peace. It also has a stable,democratic government. The country does not even have an army.
Costa Rica
what do Many smaller islands form that stretch to the Virgin Islands to Trinidad and Tobago.
the Lesser Antilles
what do they rely for imports, which limits their development.
Energy
Belize did gain independence from Britain until what year.
1981
what is the the practice of using an area’s natural environment to attract tourists called.
Ecotourism
what is the name of the canal that many people live by and that fees and local industries make the canal area the country’s most prosperous region.
Panama Canal