Latin America

What lasting effect did the Colombian Exchange have on Latin America?

• Europe colonized the area
• Slavery continued on plantations
• New Products came from Africa that are still used today
• African cultural influence is evident today

What is an environmental challenge to developing nations in South America?

• toxic emissions
• sedimintation
• deforrestation
• droughts

Terraced farming is an example of what?

• modifying the environment
• destruction of the environment
• irrigation dry areas using the drip technique
• use off advanced technology equiipment

What does this list describe?
-found between 5 degrees north and south of the equator
-still air on the sea
-Known as the Intertropical Convergence Zone

• doldrums
• polar winds
• westerlies
• tropical storms

What 1900s US construction project served as the center of urbanization, transportation, and economic activities in Central America?

• Port-au-Prince in Haiti
• Panama Canal in Panama City
• Bridge of the Americas
• Pan-American Highway

What is usually produced in the ITCZ in Latin America?

• Hurricane winds
• some of the heaviest rainfall on earth
• El Nino in the Northerrn Hempshpere
• long drought

What is it called when you believe your cultural values are more important than others?

• Ethnocentric
• Dominant
• stereotypical
• ethnoalternative

What kind of region is a central area connected to others by transportation, communication, or economic activity?

• Functional
• Formal
• Perceptual

What kind of region is a subjective image created by people's thoughts and feelings about an area?

• Formal
• Functional
• Perceptual

What kind of region is an area that shares common human or physical characteristics?

• Functional
• Formal
• Perceptual