Latin America Review

This is the second-longest river in the world, and flows across the top of South America.

• The Nile River

• The Amazon River

• The Yellow River

• The Tennessee River

What effect did Christopher Columbus' discovery of the Americas have on the native people living there?

• Native life remained mostly the same after European contact
• Native civilizations flourished (did well) because of the European influences.
• New languages and religions were welcomed by the Native people
• Through war, disease, and slave labor most of the Native people died.

What did Europe take on the ships to Africa?

• People
• Raw Materials
• Manufactured goods
• Diseases

What did Europe take from the New World (Americas) back to Europe?

• Manufactured Goods

• Raw Materials

• People

• Deadly Diseases

What did Europe take from Africa to the New World?

• Manufactured Goods
• People 
• Raw Materials

What effect did Triangular Trade have on Europe?

• It immediately helped industrialize Africa and Latin America 
• It drained their economy of resources
• It led to the need for more resources
• It helped them become wealthy and have an economic advantage

The trade that allowed movement of goods, people and materials among the continents.

• Continental trade

• Triangular Trade

• Slave Trade

• European Trade

The Columbian Exchange was the exchange of ____________ between the eastern and western hemispheres.

• people
• people, animals, and foods
• people and animals
• people and disease

What is deforestation?

• Clearing Earth's forests on a massive scale
• Eating too much vegetables
• Going to a forest and pulling weeds
• Clearing the five trees in my backyard

3.    Which rainforest is located in South America?

• Andes
• Amazon
• Pampas
• Incas