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Worksheetslatin America - Culture - 3
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
What language is the most popular in most Latin American countries?
French
Spanish
English
Creole
What’s the most popular religion?
Judaism
Christianity
Islam
Buddhism
Mestizos are descendants of what two groups?
European and Natives
African and European
African and Native
Asian and Native
Mulattoes are descendants of what two groups?
Asian and Native
European and Native
African and Native
African and European
Indigenous means what?
Native or original
Foreigner
Immigrants
Descendants of natives
Descendants of what ethnic group take up the Caribbean?
European
Natives
Asian
African
The triangular trade brought what goods from Africa to Latin America?
Gold
Slaves
Timber
Tea and spices
What sport is the most popular in Latin America?
Tennis
Basketball
Football
Soccer
Day of the Dead is mainly celebrated in what country?
Mexico
Haiti
Jamaica
Brazil
Carnival is the most popular in which country?
Belize
Mexico
Brazil
Argentina
What are murals?
Celebratory Food
Rules that everyone follows
Corn
Large Portraits
What impact did the Europeans have on the religion of Latin America?
Islam was introduced to Latin America and has become the predominant religion of the region
Buddhism was introduced to Latin America and has become the predominant religion of the region.
Roman Catholicism was introduced to Latin America and has become the predominant religion of the region.
Which are reasons for the growing tourism in Latin America?
healthy beaches
rain forest
cultural arts
all of the above
The United States has an economy based on __________________ where private individuals can make money by innovating and creating new ideas and products and bringing them to market. The economic system of __________________ is based on a communist system in which the government controls the availability of products and the cost of things.
Socialism…Canada
Free enterprise…Canada
Free enterprise…Cuba
If the parts to your car are manufactured in Mexico, but your car is assembled in the United States, this is an example of ______
Economic independence
Economic interdependence
Economic freedom
Colonization in North America has resulted in many common cultural traits among Mexico, the US and Canada. All of the following have similar forms in all three countries EXCEPT:
forms of language
economic forms
forms of government
Guatemala 13.0 mill. 309/sq. mile
Jamaica 2.7 mill. 628/sq. mile
Mexico 101.9 mill. 134/sq. mile
Panama 2.8 mill. 94/sq. mile
Which country would be considered most crowded?
Guatemala
Jamaica
Mexico
Which of the following is one way language patterns in the Caribbean were affected by cultural diffusion?
Several European languages replaced many indigenous languages.
Spanish became the official language of the Caribbean islands.
Languages from West Africa came to dominate in the Caribbean.
English eventually displaced other languages in the region.
One of the negative effects of the cultural diffusion Latin America experienced during the age of European exploration of the New World included —
an expansion of the slave trade
an increased number of dangerous storms
the introduction of cattle ranching
the destruction of the tropical rainforests
How was most of the labor supplied to sugar plantations in Brazil during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries?
by Spanish nobility
by bartering
by the trans-Atlantic slave trade
by the willing farmers
