Latin America

Why do people choose to settle in one place over another?

• Move away to the quiet

• move closer to friends and family

• religious signifigance

• resources to meet their basic needs

Why is there little farming in French Guiana?

• government places high taxes on farming

• people dont really like to farm.

• not enough water irrigation

• much of the country is covered in rainforest

How do many people living in caribbean countries make money?

• Working at resorts

• Moving to other countries

• hiding poverty from tourists

• use island resources

How did the Inca modify their environment?

• Complicated Calender

• built roads, tunnels and bridges

• Early Alphabet system

• conquered other tribes

What helped sugar become Brazil's main export in the 1600s?

• Gold discovery in the midwest

• coffee development

• sugarcane plantations in the northeast

• ranching

What river begins in the Andes and flows into the Atlantic Ocean?

• Nile River

• Vulga River

• Mississippi River

• Amazon River

Home to a variety of wildlife and vegetation, world's largest rainforest, threatened by deforestation, what am I?

• Amazon River

• Amazon Rainforest

• Rocky Mountains

• Andes Mountains

_________and ____________were the first Europeans to explore Latin America

• Spanish and Portuguese

• British and Spanish

• French and portuguese

• Spanish and French

The major Native American empires in Latin Amerca were...

• Cherokee, Maya and Jumano

• Maya, Tigua and Cherokee

• Inca, Maya and Aztec

• Aztec, Comanche and Apache

The exchange of animals, plants, disease and people from the Old World to the New World is called...

• Columbian Exchange

• Great Migration

• World War I

• Manifest Destiny