South America

What is name of the Mountain Range that stretches the entire western coast of South America?

• The Rocky Mountains

• The Andes Mountains

• The Amazon Mountains

• The Inca Mountains

The largest rainforest in the world is the __________

• Congo Rainforest

• South America Rainforest

• Amazon Rainforest

• The Andes Rainforest

The action of clearing a wide area of trees is called?

• deforestation
• extract
• erradicate
• elite

The Incas used what is known as ______ farming in order to grow crops on the mountainsides.

• Alpine

• Creative

• Terrace

• Sharecrop

What type of short term farming clears land by destroying and burning all the trees and plants on it?

• Slash and Mash

• Smash and Burn

• Slash and Burn

• Clear and Burn

The social classes of Latin America were based on the _________ of the person.

• Wealth

• Race

• Heritage

• Ability

This is a type of government where the people get to elect their leaders

• Democracy

• Monarchy

• Dictatorship

• Republic

Spanish ruling class in the colonies, held the political and economic power -

• Native Americans

• Creoles

• Mestizos

• Peninsulares ( a person born in Spain originally)

Cultural diffusion is best described as...

• sharing music from one culture to another

• the spreading of ideas, languages, and traditions fromone culture to another

• the spreading of religion

Which revolutionary is most responsible for the expansion of independence in Latin America?

• Simon Bolivar

• Thomas Paine

• Christopher Columbus

• Joseph Stalin