WorksheetsReview- Checkpoint #3
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 19mins
The Columbian Exchange is best described as...
The sharing of ideas, goods, and diseases from the "Old World" to the "New World."
Native people of South America continue to have limited contact with people from Europe.
Spain and Portugal abandoned their colonies in the "New World."
Economics in South America is based upon the market in Columbia.
The Amazon rainforest gets larger every year
Built in 1903, this 48-mile international waterway allows ships to pass between the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean, saving about 8,000 miles! Helped expand world trade
Only African slaves knew how to grow sugarcane
African slaves were forced to work on sugarcane plantations
This revolutionary leader helped liberate the northern part of South America from Spain.
He was known as the "Great Liberator" and had a country named after him.
Jose San Martin
Toussaint L' Ouverture
Simón Bolívar
Father Miguel Hidalgo
Growing crops and raising live stock to meet family needs is called
Commercial farming
Mixed farming
Subsistence farming
Farming and raising livestock for profit is called
Subsistence farming
Commercial farming
Arable farming
The type of factor that attracts people to move to a new location
What do you think Simón Bolívar did?
He was essentially a robinhood who stole from the rich and gave to the poor
He was the king of Spain and make sure people paid their taxes.
Led Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, and Bolivia to independence from Spain.
Was a ruthless, unfair, dictator that had a scorch the earth mentality.
What is the purpose of NAFTA, the North American Free Trade Agreement?
To increase trade between Canada, United States, and Mexico
To help Canada become a more independent nation, by trading with Mexico through the U.S.
To eliminate the environmental issues between the nations involved
Political problems in places such as Cuba and Mexico, have caused what to occur?
A push factor for people to leave the country
A pull factor for people to enter Cuba & Mexico for freedom
America to go to war with countries like Cuba & Mexico
Environmental issues in the area that make people flee
An exchange of plants, animals, technologies, and ideas from the Old World (Europe, Asia and Africa) to the New World (North and South America) and vice versa.
Latin America
smallpox
Columbian Exchange
New World
All of the following describe the impacts of Andes Mountains EXCEPT
cooler temperatures at high latitudes causes low population density
lack of crops grown causes low population density
barriers to trade and communication
increased infrastructure for travel
All of the following physical features lead to low population density areas in Latin America EXCEPT
Andes Mountains
Amazon River
Sierra Madre Mountains
Amazon Rainforest
How does the Amazon River benefit humans?
By providing fresh water
By supporting agriculture
By being a source of fish
All of the above
In Latin America, Toussaint L'Ouverture, Simon Bolivar, and Miguel Hidalgo are regarded as heroes because of their efforts in
conquering Indian peoples
leading independence movements
spreading Christianity
opposing land reform
