This large body of water is located EAST of Puerto Rico

Which mountain range is the biggest and tallest in all of South America?

Which River is the largest river in the whole world?

Which civilization was located in Mexico?

The Maya people resided in

The Inca people resided in

Chinampas were __________________ used by the _____________________ people for farming purposes.

Slash-and-burn was a farming technique used by the _____________________ people.

In order to farm in areas of high elevation, the _____________________ people built stepped terraces.

Because Brazil has a ____________number of well-supported political parties, coalition governments are common.

The largest group of multiethnic Brazilians share ______________ and _____________ ancestry. In fact, Brazil has so many different people with varied races, which has caused a great deal of tension in Brazil.

A _____________________ is a smaller river that feeds into a larger river.

The discovery of ___________________in _________________ helped draw European immigrants to their country in the 1720’s.

To relieve poverty and overcrowding, poor rural ____________________________ have been offered free land in the Amazon Basin if they will develop it. This might be a problem because development in the region threatens the existence of the rain forest.

Slavery was outlawed in Brazil in ________________.

A cash crop is a product raised mainly ...

A(n) __________________ is a tax on imported goods

________________________ is protection against an illness.

"Despite" means the same thing as

If economic conditions are "stable", that means

_____________ means to move from one place to another

In 1973 _________________ president, ______________, was removed from power by a military coup, an illegal seizure of power.

What factors do people generally take into consideration when deciding where to live?

In __________________ society, the emperor, high priest, and commander of the army were at the top of the hierarchy, or system of ranking, and farmers and laborers were at the bottom.

"The rugged terrain of the cordilleras isolated people from each other, but today roads and highways are being built to solve that problem." In this quote, what do "cordilleras" and "isolate" mean?

In the region of the Andes, the main factor that determines the climate is the __________________; the higher it is, the _____________________ the temperature.

In the 1900’s, multinational companies from ___________________ and ______________ began mining operations in the Andes and midlatitude countries of South America.

The Native American population in Latin America declined drastically from a smallpox epidemic. In this case, what does "epidemic" mean? Who started it?

The region in ____________________ known as the Pampas can be compared to the _______________________ of the United States.