Chapter 11- Latin America

Question 0

What are the two subregions of Latin America?

Answer 0

Middle America and South America

Question 1

From what dead language do Latin American languages derive from?

Answer 1

Latin

Question 2

What is the capital of Mexico?

Answer 2

Mexico City

Question 3

What is the capital of Belize?

Answer 3

Belmopan

Question 4

What is the capital of Costa Rica?

Answer 4

San Jose

Question 5

What is the capital of El Salvador?

Answer 5

San Salvador

Question 6

What is the capital of Guatemala?

Answer 6

Guatemala City

Question 7

What is the capital of Honduras?

Answer 7

Tegucigalpa

Question 8

What is the capital of Nicaragua?

Answer 8

Managua

Question 9

What is the capital of Panama?

Answer 9

Panama City

Question 10

What is the capital of the Bahamas?

Answer 10

Nassau

Question 11

What is the capital of Cuba?

Answer 11

Havana

Question 12

What is the capital of the Dominican Republic?

Answer 12

Santo Domingo

Question 13

What is the capital of Haiti?

Answer 13

Port-au-Prince

Question 14

What is the capital of Jamaica?

Answer 14

Kingston

Question 15

What is the capital of Antigua & Barbuda

Answer 15

St. John’s

Question 16

What is the capital of Barbados?

Answer 16

Bridgetown

Question 17

What is the capital of Dominca?

Answer 17

Roseau

Question 18

What is the capital of Grenada?

Answer 18

St. George’s

Question 19

What is the capital of St. Kitts and Nevis?

Answer 19

Basseterre

Question 20

What is the capital of St. Lucia?

Answer 20

Castries

Question 21

What is the capital of St. Vincent and the Grendines?

Answer 21

Kingstown

Question 22

What is the capital of Trinidad and Tobago?

Answer 22

Port of Spain

Question 23

What cities contain the major populations?

Answer 23

Tijuana, Juarez, Monterrey

Question 24

What does Sierra Madre mean?

Answer 24

Mother Range

Question 25

Which desert covers large parts of the Northern Plateau?

Answer 25

Chihuahuan Desert

Question 26

What is the biggest port in Mexico?

Answer 26

Veracrúz

Question 27

What is the Grand Canyon of Mexico?

Answer 27

Copper Canyon

Question 28

Which city on the eastern tip of the Yucatán Peninsula is a major tourist destination?

Answer 28

Cancún

Question 29

Which city contributes greatly to the $10 billion Mexican tourist industry?

Answer 29

Acapulco

Question 30

What type of cactus is prominent in the Sonoran Desert?

Answer 30

Saguaro

Question 31

Saguaro cacti are plentiful in which Mexican desert?

Answer 31

Sonoran

Question 32

Which Mexican city beside San Diego is the most popular stop for American tourists?

Answer 32

Tijuana

Question 33

Which plateau is bordered by two Sierra Madres?

Answer 33

Mexican Plateau

Question 34

What is the altitude zone?

Answer 34

What the Mexican named the different levels of altitude

Question 35

Name the three empires that conquered Mexico

Answer 35

Toltec, Aztec, and the Spaniards

Question 36

What are vast ranches called?

Answer 36

Haciendas

Question 37

What are peones?

Answer 37

Poor Indian people

Question 38

What is the sudden, illegal overthrow of the government by a military officer or other government official?

Answer 38

Coup

Question 39

What are people born in Spain called?

Answer 39

Peninsulares

Question 40

What are Spaniards Osborn in colonies called?

Answer 40

Criollos

Question 41

What are overtaxed, landless people of mixed Spanish and Indian ancestry called?

Answer 41

Mestizos

Question 42

What are edjios?

Answer 42

Land grants

Question 43

Who was elected by PAN to presidency in 2007?

Answer 43

Vicente Fox

Question 44

What does Sierra Madre del Sur mean?

Answer 44

The south mother range

Question 45

What is the poorest state in mexico?

Answer 45

Chiapas

Question 46

What are caciques?

Answer 46

Party bosses

Question 47

What us a plaza?

Answer 47

Public square

Question 48

What is a narrow land bridge called?

Answer 48

Isthmus