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WorksheetsLatin America Vocabulary Quiz
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 6mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
...a factory in Mexico run by a foreign company and exporting its products to the country of that company.
a)
Maquiladoras
b)
Ecotourism
c)
Llanos
d)
Pampas
2.
...tourism directed toward exotic, often threatened, natural environments, especially to support conservation efforts and observe wildlife.
a)
Maquiladoras
b)
Ecotourism
c)
Biodiversity
d)
Deforestation
3.
...the variety of life in the world or in a particular habitat or ecosystem.
a)
Ecotourism
b)
Deforestation
c)
Biodiversity
d)
Pampas
4.
...the permanent destruction of forests in order to make the land available for other uses.
a)
Ecotourism
b)
Deforestation
c)
Llanos
d)
Pampas
5.
...a vast tropical grassland plain situated to the east of the Andes in Colombia and Venezuela, in northwestern South America. It is an ecoregion of the flooded grasslands and savannas biome.
a)
Llanos
b)
Pampas
c)
Maquiladoras
d)
Biodiversity
6.
...a vast tropical savanna ecoregion of Brazil, particularly in the states of Goiás, Mato Grosso do Sul, Mato Grosso, Tocantins and Minas Gerais
a)
Pampas
b)
Cerrado
c)
Mestizo
d)
Mulatto
7.
...extensive, treeless plains in South America.
a)
Llanos
b)
Cerrado
c)
Mestizo
d)
Pampas
8.
...a man of mixed race, especially the offspring of a Spaniard and an American Indian.
a)
Mestizo
b)
Mulatto
c)
Mesa
d)
Favela
9.
...a person of mixed white and black ancestry, especially a person with one white and one black parent.
a)
Mestizo
b)
Favela
c)
Cerrado
d)
Mulatto
10.
...a person of mixed European and black descent.
a)
Cerrado
b)
Mestizo
c)
Creole
d)
Mulatto
11.
...a Brazilian shack or shanty town; a slum.
a)
Favela
b)
North Atlantic Drift
c)
Mestizo
d)
Cerrado
12.
...a powerful warm western boundary current that extends the Gulf Stream north-eastward.
a)
Cerrado
b)
Southern Current
c)
North Atlantic Drift
d)
Pacific Ocean
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