History Test Chapter 7-9

Question 1

height above sea level

Answer 1

altitude

Question 2

group of islands

Answer 2

archipelago

Question 3

umbrella like covering formed by the tops of trees in a rain forest

Answer 3

canopy

Question 4

large festival held each spring in countries in Latin America on the last day before the Christian holy period called Lent

Answer 4

carnival

Question 5

farm product grown of export

Answer 5

cash crop

Question 6

Latin American ruler, often a military officer or wealthy individual ruling as a dictator

Answer 6

caudillo

Question 7

an economic system in which the government controls a country’s economy

Answer 7

command economy

Question 8

self governing territory

Answer 8

commonwealth

Question 9

country whose government has a strong control over the economy and society as a whole

Answer 9

communist state

Question 10

failure to make debt payments that are due to lender.

Answer 10

default

Question 11

collection of different territories united under the rule of one government

Answer 11

empire

Question 12

steep cliff at the edge of a plateau with a lowland area below

Answer 12

escarpment

Question 13

an area where a river current and ocean time meet

Answer 13

estuary

Question 14

an overcrowded city slum in Brazil

Answer 14

favela

Question 15

human made fuel produce from mixing gasoline and alcohol made from sugarcane

Answer 15

gasohol

Question 16

cowhand in Argentina

Answer 16

gaucho

Question 17

system of writing that uses small pictures to represent sounds or words

Answer 17

heiroglyphics

Question 18

narrow stretch of land connecting 2 large land

Answer 18

isthmus

Question 19

shiny stone that comes in many shades of green

Answer 19

jade

Question 20

percentage of a country’s people who can read and write

Answer 20

literacy rate

Question 21

tropical grassland that stretch through eastern Columbia and Venezuela

Answer 21

Ilanos

Question 22

an early form of corn grown by native americans

Answer 22

maize

Question 23

foreign owned factory in Mexico where workers assemble parts made in other countries.

Answer 23

maquiladora

Question 24

in Latin America, a person of mixed Native American and European heritage

Answer 24

mestizo

Question 25

a person who earns a living by temporarily moving to a place separate from is or her home in order to work.

Answer 25

migrant worker

Question 26

movement of people

Answer 26

migration

Question 27

large painting on a wall

Answer 27

mural

Question 28

money owed by the government

Answer 28

national debt

Question 29

hard black volcanic glass useful for making weapons

Answer 29

obsidian

Question 30

treeless grassland of Argentina and Uraguay

Answer 30

pamps

Question 31

language formed by combining parts of several different languages

Answer 31

pidgin language

Question 32

a large farm

Answer 32

plantation

Question 33

public square in Latin American city around which government buildings and major churches were built

Answer 33

plaza

Question 34

dense stand of trees and other growth that receives high amounts of precipitation each year

Answer 34

rain forest

Question 35

money sent back home by workers who leave their home country to work in other nations

Answer 35

remittance

Question 36

Brazilian name for the amazonian rain forest

Answer 36

selva

Question 37

mineral used in fertilizer and explosives

Answer 37

sodium nitrate

Question 38

smaller area of a region

Answer 38

subregion

Question 39

small plot of land on which a farmer grows only enough food to feed his or her family

Answer 39

subsistence farming

Question 40

small river that flows into a larger river

Answer 40

tributary

Question 41

area between the tropics of cancer and the tropics of capricorn which has generally warm temperatures it receives that direct rays of the sun for much of the year

Answer 41

tropics

Question 42

mexican cowhand

Answer 42

vaquero