Spring Interim Study Guide
Name: ____________________________________________ Class Period: ___________________________ Grade:____________________________
Latin America Geography
Label the following countries and physical features on the map below. Make
sure to study the map!
1.Mexico, 2.Haiti, 3.Cuba, 4.Panama, 5.Venezuela, 6.Brazil, 7.Peru,
8.Columbia, 9. Chile, 10.Sierra Madre Mountains, 11.Andes Mountains,
12.Caribbean Sea, 13.Atacama Desert, 14.Panama Canal, 15.Amazon River
19. What environmental issue is happening in the Amazon Rainforest?
20. Where is the Amazon Rainforest located?
21. Define deforestation.
22. What is Venezuela’s biggest export?
23. How is Venezuela’s oil production affecting their environment?
24. What are the 2 primary languages of Latin America?
25. Why are these (above) the primary languages of Latin America?
26. What is the most common language in Brazil? Why?
27. What countries/continents are included in the term Latin America?
28. Most Latin Americans can trace their ancestors to the following 3 groups
of people:
29. The most populated country in Latin America is _________________.
30. Most people in Brazil live on the _________ coast (on the Atlantic).
31. Mexico’s two biggest exports are:
32. Define standard of living.
33. Define literacy rate.
34. How can a country’s literacy rate affect their standard of living?
35. Why was the Panama Canal built?
16. What environmental issue plagues Mexico City?
17. How does Mexico City’s geography affect its environment?
Latin America History
35. Where were the Aztecs located?
36. List 3 facts about the Aztecs:
37. Who defeated the Aztecs? How?
18. List 2 solutions for Mexico City’s air pollution problem:
NOTE: I have NOT seen the interim and do NOT know the questions that will be on the interim. This study guide is meant to be a guide to your studying- not the only thing you study. The questions on this sheet pertain to
the AKS that will be on the interim and should help you focus your studying. Review sessions will be offered on Tuesday 2/6 from4:15-5:15 and on Wednesday, 2/7 at 8:15. The interim will be on Wednesday, 2/7 for 1st
and 2nd periods and on Thursday, 2/8 for 3rd and 4th periods.
Spring Interim Study Guide
Name: ____________________________________________ Class Period: ___________________________ Grade:____________________________
38. Where were the Inca located?
39. List 3 facts about the Inca:
40. Who defeated the Inca? How?
41. What was the Columbian exchange?
42. List 2 items brought from the Old World (Eastern Hemisphere) to the
New World (Americas):
43. List 2 items taken back to the Old World from the New World:
44. What was arguably the most important item brought to the Americas?
44. Draw and label the triangle below to show what goods were traded as
part of “Triangular Trade.”
Complete the chart below about the following liberators:
Leader
What country he
fought for
What country he
fought against
How did he fight?
Did he see
independence?
Toussaint
L’Ouverture
Simon Bolivar
48.
49.
50.
51.
52.
53.
Miguel Hidalgo
54.
55.
56.
57. Put in chronological order the following dictators of Cuba: Fidel Castro,
Batista, and Raul Castro:
58. How did Castro betray the U.S.?
59. Castro made Cuba a _________________ government.
60. Describe the Cuban Missile Crisis.
61. Who are the Zapatistas?
62. What is the Zapatistas goal (what are they fighting for)?
63. What tactic do they use to fight?
64. What do they have against NAFTA?
65. What did the Zapatistas do to protest NAFTA?
45. Why did the Europeans go to Africa for slaves?
46. What is the most common religion in Latin America?
47. What was Toussaint L’Ouverture’s goal for Haiti?
Latin America Government
Define the following terms:
66.
Autocracy
67.
Oligarchy
68.
Democracy
NOTE: I have NOT seen the interim and do NOT know the questions that will be on the interim. This study guide is meant to be a guide to your studying- not the only thing you study. The questions on this sheet pertain to
the AKS that will be on the interim and should help you focus your studying. Review sessions will be offered on Tuesday 2/6 from4:15-5:15 and on Wednesday, 2/7 at 8:15. The interim will be on Wednesday, 2/7 for 1st
and 2nd periods and on Thursday, 2/8 for 3rd and 4th periods.
Spring Interim Study Guide
Name: ____________________________________________ Class Period: ___________________________ Grade:____________________________
Circle the appropriate term(s) that describes each country.
69. Cuba: federal unitary democracy autocracy oligarchy
70. Mexico: federal unitary democracy autocracy oligarchy
71. Brazil: federal unitary democracy autocracy oligarchy
85. Create an economies continuum and place Cuba, Brazil, and Mexico on
the continuum.
Command
Market
72. Which country has the least freedoms? Cuba, Mexico, Brazil?
73. Brazil and Mexico are both presidential democracies. What does this
mean?
Latin America Economics
Complete the chart below.
Market
Command
Who determines what is
made and how much?
74. What is a traditional economy like?
75. True or False: In Latin America, there are many command economies.
76. What type of economy are most countries?
77. Describe a mixed economy.
86. What is a tariff?
87. What is an embargo?
88. What is a quota?
89. How are the 3 words listed above trade barriers?
90. What is NAFTA?
List any questions or extra notes you have here. Good luck studying! 
78. What is the best way to invest in human capital?
79. List 3 capital goods.
80. A country with a high GDP will have a _______ (high/low) standard of living.
81. What is currency?
82. Can you use the U.S. dollar anywhere in the world? If not, what do you have to
do when you travel to another country?
83. Define supply.
84. Define demand.
NOTE: I have NOT seen the interim and do NOT know the questions that will be on the interim. This study guide is meant to be a guide to your studying- not the only thing you study. The questions on this sheet pertain to
the AKS that will be on the interim and should help you focus your studying. Review sessions will be offered on Tuesday 2/6 from4:15-5:15 and on Wednesday, 2/7 at 8:15. The interim will be on Wednesday, 2/7 for 1st
and 2nd periods and on Thursday, 2/8 for 3rd and 4th periods.