1. Word of the day….
COUP!

2. Natural disasters? Where is Latin America?
What are its major features?
What three regions does it include?
What is the connection between location and features and climate? (LEMPOSA)
Natural disasters?

4. embargo recession 1959 Communism 1990 Fidel Castro
Cold War
1959
Cuban missile crisis
embargo
Communism
Fidel Castro
recession
1990

5. Results of European Colonization in Latin America………..
Economic
Social
Political
Dictatorships
Economic inequality
Cash crops
Portuguese
Spanish
Catholic/Christianity
Mestizo
Mullato
Disease

6. 1821 1898 Mexico gained its Independence from Spain
Treaty of Paris and end of Spanish-American War…
Cuba gains independence from Spain AND
Puerto Rico becomes a territory of the US

7. NAFTA
POSITIVES/NEGATIVES
MAQUILADORA

8. Inca
Maya
Aztec

9. Haiti
Brazil
Belize
Suriname
French Guiana

10. Elevation Zones- Elevation affects climate and climate
affects vegetation, animals and how people live.
Copy this diagram in your notes. You do not have to
Copy it EXACTLY.
Critical thinking:
What elevation is called the
“tree line” and what do you
think that might mean?
What part of Latin
America is most
affected by
elevation?
What do
Geographers
call climate in
an area with
high elevation?

11. Cash crops arable land
Subsistence farming v. commercial farming Highland climate
Biodiversity
Sustainable assimilation vs. acculturation
Ecotourism
Slash and Burn Agriculture
Temperate
diffusion/Columbian exchange
Nationalizes v. privatized businesses
Cottage v. commercial industry God, gold, glory
Government systems slave trade
Economic systems/economic spectrum Urbanization