Latin American Test

What word matches this definition: The movement of people from rural areas to cities.

• Deforestation

• Urbanization

• City-Movement

What word matches this definition: Permanent removal of trees to make room for something besides forest, like farmland.

• Deforestation

• Urbanization

• Slash and Burn Farming

What word matches this definition: A way of clearing fields for planting by cutting trees, brush, and grasses and burning them

• Deforestation

• Push Factors

• Slash and Burn Farming

• Pull Factor

• Terraced Farming

What word matches this definition: A  factor that causes people to leave their homelands and migrate to another region

• Deforestation

• Push Factors

• Slash and Burn Farming

• Pull Factor

• Terraced Farming

What word matches this definition: An ancient technique for growing crops on hillsides or mountain slopes, using step-like horizontal fields cut into the slopes

• Deforestation

• Push Factors

• Slash and Burn Farming

• Pull Factor

• Terraced Farming

What word matches this definition: A factor that draws or attracts people to another location

• Deforestation

• Push Factors

• Slash and Burn Farming

• Pull Factor

• Terraced Farming

Home to the Aztecs, 1200

• Mexico

• Brazil

• Central America and the Caribbean

• Spanish-Speaking South America

Their Language brought by the Portuguese

• Mexico

• Brazil

• Central America and the Caribbean

• Spanish-Speaking South America

The Maya built great civilization

• Mexico

• Brazil

• Central America and the Caribbean

• Spanish-Speaking South America

Gained independence in 1822

• Mexico

• Brazil

• Central America and the Caribbean

• Spanish-Speaking South America