1. Unit 5 Test Review

2. Remember… To ask yourself which of the answers is actually supported by the map, graph, chart or passage If an answer is partially wrong, it is totally wrong

3. Deforestation: What type of forest is involved?

4. Deforestation is the major environmental challenge facing Latin America today Often caused by slash & burn farming: trees are cut down and vegetation is then burned

5. Terraced farming an ancient agricultural practice used to grow crops on the steep sides of mountains and hills

6. Terraced Farming A main example of modifying the environment The idea is to achieve flat areas that resemble steps on which crops can be planted.

7. Doldrums A weather occurrence of the ocean near the equator that causes little, if any wind (Why would this be a problem for early sailors?) At other times trade winds can cause very heavy rainfall Also known as the: Intertropical Convergence Zone

8. Panama Canal Constructed in the early 1900s -Waterway that connects the Pacific & Atlantic Oceans

9. How would the canal affect cities close to it? How would the canal affect cities close to it?

10. Ethnocentric – defined as the preference of an individual’s culture over the cultures of any other group Cultural lens – we see things through the eye of our own cultural experience What does a lens do? “perception”

11. Regions Know what the following regions are: Formal Functional perceptual

12. Four main regions of Latin America Mexico Caribbean Central America South America

13. Tectonic plates: How were the Andes formed?

15. Convergence: Subduction

16. Haiti earthquake: What city was effected the most?

17. Haiti Many people migrated away because of economic devastation: Push or Pull? Global world gave much aid: how did this affect local farmers?

18. Island of Hispaniola Today is the Dominican Republic and Haiti

19. The Andes form a natural boundary between which two countries?

20. Why are Argentina’s major cities located where they are?

21. What are push/pull factors? Push factors are negative and force people out of a country Pull factors are positive and bring people to a country

22. Mesoamerica Part of Mexico & Central America

23. Home to ancient Mayans & Aztecs Area affected by European colonization Shares a language

24. subsistence farming Small farming in which the farmers focus on growing enough food to feed themselves and their families (little or no profit) What would be most important to a subsistence farmer to be successful?

25. Desalinization Removal of salt from ocean water

26. Nationalism: patriotism based on devotion and loyalty to a nation

27. Evidence of nationalism in Latin America Artistic expressions like paintings and mural

30. The Phillipines are in Asia/former Spanish colony What is the difference between a developing and a developed nation What is population density?