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The location of
Mexico’s fastest
growing industrial
cities during the 1990s
and early 2000s.
What is along the US
border?
They make up
60% of Mexico’s
ethnic population.
Who are the
Mestizos?
Moved from
Colombia
What are the drug
cartels?
Mexico has seen
inreased
industrialization
because of this
(these) trade bloc(s).
What is NAFTA?
The cultural hearth of
the Mayans.
What is the
Yucatan
Peninsula?
To draw people more
to the interior of the
country.
Why was Brazil’s
capital moved to
Brasilia?
Gave the
Portuguese the
territory now
known as Brazil.
What is the Treaty
of Tordesillas?
The main religion
for Brazil and
mostly all of Latin
America.
What is Roman
Catholicism?
To have land to
raise livestock and
grow crops.
Why is
deforestation of the
Amazon Rainforest
taking place?
To populate the
interior of the
country.
Why did Brazil
move its capital
from Rio to
Brasilia?
Tropical fruits are
produced in this
attitudinal zone.
What is the tierra
templada?
Andean natives rely
most heavily upon
this crop.
What is the potato?
These two landforms
have led to cultural
isolation in South
America.
What are the Andes
Mts. and the
Amazon
Rainforest?
These two landforms in
S America have limited
transportation &
communication
systems.
What are the Andes
Mts. and the
Amazon
Rainforest?
Part of Ecuador, this
place lies far off the
coast of the country and
in this Ocean.
What are the
Galapagos
Islands & the
Pacific?
Three groups of
peoples whose
cultures have
diffused throughout
the Caribbean and
Central America.
Who are natives,
Europeans, and
Africans?
Africans were
brought to the
colonies in the New
World for this
reason.
What is replace the
shrinking labor
force (to work on
the plantations)?
Many governments of
newly independent
Latin American
countries leaned this
direction.
What is LEFT?
The TWO Englishspeaking countries
of Latin America.
What are Guyana
and Belize?
People in this
country are the
poorest in the
Western
Hemisphere.
What is Haiti?
The two biggest oil
producers in Latin
America.
What are
Venezuela and
Mexico?
The top TWO
economic sectors in
Central America and
the Caribbean.
What are the
primary and
tertiary sectors?
To create better
economic ties
between member
nations.
What is the purpose
of trade blocs such
as Mercosur,
NAFTA, and
CAFTA-DR?
Europe got potatoes &
turkeys; the Americas
got horses &
DISEASE.
What is the
Columbian
Exchange?
Connects the
Atlantic Ocean to
the Caribbean Sea.
What is nothing?
Because of
industrialization
and increased job
opportunities.
Why are people in
Latin America
moving to cities?
Contains a series of
locks, has aided the
US military, allows
for the spread of
ideas & goods.
What is the
Panama Canal?
The spread of
technology and
agriculture spread
easiest in this
direction.
What is east and
west?
Puts a strain on
infrastructure, can
worsen income
inequality, & may lead
to pollution &
overcrowding.
What is tourism?
Slums are called
this is Brazil, but
this in Colombia.
What are favela
and barrios?
Make your wager
List, in order, the capitals of
the following countries:
1. Belize
2. Uruguay
3. Guyana
4. Chile
5. Dominican Republic
What are…
1. Belmopan
2. Montevideo
3. Georgetown
4. Santiago
5. Santo Domingo