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A : 1  Question: What mountain range runs down the Pacific coast of S. America?  Answer: Andes Back to the Board

A : 2  Question: Which river begins in the Andes Mountains and flowers eastward, flowing from Brazil into the Atlantic Ocean?  Answer: Amazon River Back to the Board

A : 3  Question: What is the name of the grassy, treeless plains of Colombia and Venezuela?  Answer: llanos Back to the Board

A : 4  Question: Which technique of farming is used by native peoples of Latin America to clear fields to grow crops?  Answer: slash and burn farming Back to the Board

A : 5  Question: What country contains the most of the Amazon rainforest?  Answer: Brazil Back to the Board

B : 1  Question: Which cattle grazing area is known for the gaucho culture in southern Brazil?  Answer: Pampas Back to the Board

B : 2  Question: What ancient technique is used to grow crops on hillsides?  Answer: terraced farming Back to the Board

B : 3  Question: Name 2 affects that the Andes Mountains have had on South America?  Answer: large concentrations of population settles west of the mountains; barrier to people moving inland; need to learn terracing techniques of farming Back to the Board

B : 4  Question: Of the following, which would be best for farming? ○ Area around volcanoes ○ Mountains ○ Rain forests ○ llanos  Answer: llanos Back to the Board

B : 5  Question: Of the following, which is not a part of infrastructure? ○ Monuments ○ Sewers ○ Housing ○ Transportation  Answer: monuments Back to the Board

C : 1  Question: Which two groups did the most to shape the culture of Mexico?  Answer: Spanish and the natives Back to the Board

C : 2  Question: What trade agreement is most expected to contribute to Mexico’s economic prosperity?  Answer: NAFTA Back to the Board

C : 3  Question: What are the two things that central american/caribbean economies are most dependent upon?  Answer: Agriculture and tourism Back to the Board

C : 4  Question: What three groups most shaped the culture of the countries in the Caribbean?  Answer: Natives, Europeans, and Africans Back to the Board

C : 5  Question: What trade group was created to make the member nations more economically stable?  Answer: Mercosur Back to the Board

D : 1  Question: What two countries gained control of land in South America as a result of the Treaty of Tordesillas?  Answer: Spain and Portugal Back to the Board

D : 2  Question: Why did the Portuguese bring in Africans to Brazil?  Answer: to work on the plantations Back to the Board

D : 3  Question: What sector of Mexico’s economy are the most focusing on developing?  Answer: Industrial manufacturing Back to the Board

D : 4  Question: Panama was the best place to build a canal connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Why?  Answer: Its location (geography) Back to the Board

D : 5  Question: Despite Spanish domination, the Inca language survived. This language is known as what?  Answer: Quechua Back to the Board

E : 1  Question: Which native tribe originated in the Andes Mountains of Peru?  Answer: Inca Back to the Board

E : 2  Question: Brazil was colonized by what nation?  Answer: Portugal Back to the Board

E : 3  Question: What event served as a catalyst (sped up) the independence movement of the United Provinces of Central America?  Answer: Mexico’s independence/revoluti on Back to the Board

E : 4  Question: What is exchanged in a debt for nature swap?  Answer: A country’s debt is relieved in exchange for the protection of wildlife. Back to the Board

E : 5  Question: What term describes a government under harsh, military leadership?  Answer: Junta Back to the Board

F: 1  Question: What is the goal of land reform?  Answer: Divide land and wealth more fairly Back to the Board

F: 2  Question: The following are all associated with what? ○ Free speech ○ Fair elections ○ Citizen participation  Answer: democracy Back to the Board

F: 3  Question: What is the name for a person of mixed Native American and European descent?  Answer: mestizo Back to the Board

F: 4  Question: What is the most important reason that many Latin Americans can not take advantage of the free-market economy?  Answer: Lack education and cannot get meaningful jobs Back to the Board

F: 5  Question: What is the official language of Brazil?  Answer: Portuguese Back to the Board

G: 1  Question: Which Latin American country has the largest territory and population?  Answer: Brazil Back to the Board

G: 2  Question: The culture of Central America and the Caribbean differ from that of Mexico because it has been shaped by who?  Answer: Other Europeans and Africans Back to the Board

G: 3  Question: What concept is characterized by the slow increase in temperatures?  Answer: Global warming Back to the Board

G: 4  Question: What term refers to the wide range of plants, insects, and wildlife?  Answer: biodiversity Back to the Board

G: 5  Question: What have the following resulted in in Latin America? ○ Demand for hardwoods ○ Clearing land for farming ○ Clearing land for cattle to graze  Answer: Deforestion of the rain forest Back to the Board

H: 1  Question: What is the name for a city’s sewers, transportation systems, electricity, and housing?  Answer: Infrastructure Back to the Board

H: 2  Question: The following are all reasons to do what? ○ Drugs and medicines may be made from the plants ○ Undiscovered species may live there ○ May affect global warming  Answer: Preserve the rainforest Back to the Board

H: 3  Question: What is the name for the southern tip of South America?  Answer: Tierra del Fuego Back to the Board

H: 4  Question: What farming technique allowed the Inca to survive in the Andes?  Answer: Terraced farming Back to the Board

H: 5  Question: What farming technique results in the shrinking of the rainforest?  Answer: Slash-and-burn Back to the Board