Unit 3 Latin America

New cultures initially spread throughout the Americas because of...

• European explorers
• Social Networking
• Immigration by natives
• Commuters

The Practice of cutting down forests for crops or urban use is called what?

• Deforistation 
• Colonization
• Terrace Farming
• Regional Relocation 

What geographic feature stretches across almost the entire WIDTH of South America? 

• Andes Mountains
• Brazillian Highlands 
• Pampas 
• Amazon Basin 

Choose THREE impacts of the Columbian Exchange

• Spanish language spoken in much of Latin America

• Christianity spread through most of Latin America

• Indigenous populations decreased due to European diseases

• Indigenous populations increased due to new food and animals from Europe

What geographic feature is contained within the bracket?

• the Andes Mountains

• the Yucatan Peninsula

• the Pampas

an interchange of plants, animals, disease, people, and culture between the Western and Eastern hemispheres following the voyages of Columbus

• renewable resource

• Columbian Exchange

• demography

• deforestation

refers to natural resources that cannot be remade or replenished

• non-renewable resource

• indigenous

• natural resources

• mulattos

The process of spreading cultural traits from one region to another

• mural

• staple

• cultural diffusion

• colonization

Which cultural practices were brought by African slaves when they were forced into Latin America?

• Modern weapons

• Famous African paintings

• Modern buildings

• African dances, food and music

Today the dominant religion in Central America is .

• Shamanism

• Mormonism

• Roman Catholicism

• Buddhists