Canada, Mexico & Central America Test

Central America borders Columbia to the south and ________ to the north

• Brazil
• Mexico

• Argentina
• Ecuador

In Belize they speak English but everywhere else in Central America ______________ is spoken.

• French
• Dutch
• Spanish

• Portuguese

In Central America, Costa Rica and Panama are _______________?

• hit each year by hurricanes

• the poorest countries

• the two most developed countries

• ruled by dictators

Between 1862-1973, Belize was a British colony called ______________________________.

• United Belize

• British Annexation

• Belize colony

• British Honduras

In El Salvador, over _______________% of the population is mestizo which mixed European and Native American

• 90

• 80

• 70

• 60

Guatemala is the highest ____________ in Central America

• infant death rate

• poverty rate

• number of starving people

• population

The Mayan civilization was primarily located in present day _____________.

• Guatemala

• Honduras

• Nicaragua

• El Salvador

Christopher Columbus named Honduras because

• it honored the god Hondo
• of the variety of ancestors found there
• It means depths and the water off the shore was deep
• it was the name given by the natives to the volcano on the main land

Nicaragua has been ruled by a ___ ________and had two civil wars in the last few decades

• dictator

• queen

• elected president

• democratic government

The Panama Canal links

• Gulf of Mexico with the Southern Ocean

• the Atlantic with the Pacific Ocean

• Panama with South America

• Caribbean Sea with the Atlantic Ocean