Caribbean and Central America Review - Part 1

What is bauxite?

• A type of coastal tree

• An aluminum mineral

• An indigenous concept

• A term for ecotourism

What does "mangrove" mean?

• An offensive term

• A coastal tree that grows in salt water

• A type of cocoa

• A mix of European and African ancestry

What word is used today instead of "mulatto" to describe a person of mixed European and African ancestry?

• Indigenous

• Bauxite

• Mixed or biracial

• Cocoa

What is cocoa?

• A term for traveling and seeing natural areas

• A tree that produces cocoa beans to make chocolate

• A mineral of aluminum

• A coastal tree that grows in salt water

What is ecotourism?

• An offensive term

• A tree that produces cocoa beans

• Traveling to see natural areas

• A mineral of aluminum

What two continents does Central America connect?

• North America and South America

• Europe and Asia

• Africa and Europe

• Asia and North America

What are the Caribbean islands known as?

• The Lesser Antilles

• The West Indies

• The Greater Antilles

• The Cayman Islands

What are the two groups of islands that make up the West Indies?

• The Greater and Lesser Antilles

• The Bahamas Islands and the Cayman Islands

• The Virgin Islands and the Turks and Caicos Islands

• The Windward Islands and Leeward Islands

Which countries include the Greater Antilles?

• Cuba, Puerto Rico, Hispaniola (Haiti/Dominican Republic), Jamaica

• Bahamas, Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados, Saint Lucia

• Antigua and Barbuda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Dominica, Grenada

• Martinique, Guadeloupe, Saint Martin, Saint Barthélemy

The Caribbean islands were formed by what two things?

• Earthquakes and coral reefs

• Volcanos and coral reefs

• Mountains and rivers

• Volcanos and forests