Latin America Test Review

What characteristics help define Latin America as a region?

• Spanish and Portuguese are the major languages

• The majority of the countries were colonized by the French

• Christianity and Islam are the major religions

• Most countries have a command economy

Slash and burn agriculture is a type of...

• subsistence agriculture

• monoculture

• plantation agriculture

• commercial agriculture

What caused Cubans to flee to the United States?

• Cuba became an unbearable tourist location

• Cuba became a communist dictatorship

• Cuba became a democracy

• A massive earthquake

When was the Latin American Revolution?

• 18th-19th Century

• 16th-17th Century

• 20th-21st Century

• 15th Century

Difference between rivers in Central America and South America

• Rivers in Central America are more polluted

• Rivers in South America are run by cartels

• South America has longer rivers

• Rivers in South America are mostly dried up

What are the effects of deforestation?

• All of these answers are correct

• climate change

• loss of habitat

• loss of animal survival

One significant cultural factor that unites the people of Latin America

• They are citizens of the same country

• Most are Roman Catholic

• Most speak English

• They were once ruled by the same powerful emporor

Panama Canal

• allows for faster travel/trade

• leads to South Africa from the USA

• cuts through Guatemala

• allows access to the Indian Ocean

Why did they make the Panama Canal?

• Created as a barrier for immigration

• To allow military ships access to the Arabian Peninsula

• To help bring economic prosperity to Uruguay

• To help with trade and travel

Vertical climate zones in Mexico directly affect the...

• subtropical climate which supports rain forests

• land as most of it becomes wasteland

• natural vegetation and crops grown by elevation

• coastal areas which suffer from erosion