Middle America

Question 1

What are the seven republics of Central America?

Answer 1

Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, El Salvador. Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama

Question 2

Which Islands are part of the greater antilles

Answer 2

Cuba, Jamaica, The Hispaniola, Puerto Rico

Question 3

Which islands are part of the lesser antilles?

Answer 3

Bahamas, Virgin Islands, Antigua, St. Lucia, Tobago, Trinidad, and Aruba

Question 4

When did Mexico gain independance and how many states dos it consist of?

Answer 4

1821 ; 31 states

Question 5

What are Mexico’s most densely populated areas?

Answer 5

Jalisco, Mexico City, Puebla, Veracruz

Question 6

Wha are Mexico’s least populated states?

Answer 6

Baja California Sur, Nayarit, Campeche

Question 7

What is it like outside of Mexico City’s CBD?

Answer 7

Middle class, struggling working class, and farthest away are slums, poverty, and crime

Question 8

What is the ethnic composition of Mexico?

Answer 8

15.1%Amerindians, 62% Mestizos, and 1.2% Afro-Mexicans

Question 9

What is the socioeconomic trend in Mexico?

Answer 9

Northern is more afluent and economically prosperous

Question 10

What are the 3 drug cartels of Mexico?

Answer 10

Gulf Cartel (North west), Sinaloa Cartel (North central down to the pacific ocean), and Los Zetas (Eastern coast along the Gulf of Mexico)

Question 11

What is the stratification of drug movement in Mexico?

Answer 11

30% east throught he gulf of mexico, 20% through Guatemala, and 50% west through the Pacific ocean (including Colombia, Bolivia, and Peru)

Question 12

What are Mexico’s national development challenges?

Answer 12

Violence, gap between rich and poor, infrastructure, education, and poverty

Question 13

Where is Central America mostly populated?

Answer 13

Cooler uplands along the Pacific coast

Question 14

Which country has more land neighbors than any other?

Answer 14

Guatemala

Question 15

Which country was the former Mayan Empire and once part of Mexico

Answer 15

Guatemala

Question 16

What is Guatemala’s ethnic composition?

Answer 16

55% Mestivos and 45% Amerindiands

Question 17

When as the civil war in Guatemala that resulted in over 200,000 dead?

Answer 17

1960-1996

Question 18

How much of Guatemala’s population lives in poverty?

Answer 18

60%

Question 19

What are Guatemala’s economic resources?

Answer 19

Nickel, oil, and coffee

Question 20

Where is Belize?

Answer 20

Wedged between northern Guatemala and the Yucatan Peninsula

Question 21

What was Belize known as until 1981?

Answer 21

British Honduras

Question 22

What are Belize’s Exports and economic activities?

Answer 22

Sugar, Banana, seafood
Clothing and ecotourism

Question 23

What is strategic about Honduras’ location?

Answer 23

They have a lengthy Caribbean coastline

Question 24

How does Honduras inconvenience El Salvador?

Answer 24

It blocks their access to the Caribbean

Question 25

What is Honduras' ethnic composition?

Answer 25

90% mestizos

Question 26

What is the smallest geographic country?

Answer 26

El Salvador

Question 27

What is El Salvador's ethnic composition?

Answer 27

86% Mestizos

Question 28

What are El Salvador's exports and important economic contributors?

Answer 28

Coffee and Banana Remittances

Question 29

Which country is called the cone-shaped country?

Answer 29

Nicaragua

Question 30

What is the state of Nicaragua's economy?

Answer 30

Second poorest andrelies on foreign aid and remittances

Question 31

Which country has the oldest democratic tradition of 175 years?

Answer 31

Costa Rica

Question 32

Which country has the highest standard of living in the region?

Answer 32

Costa Rica

Question 33

Why does Costa Rica have a strong ecotourism sector?

Answer 33

80% of her original forest cover remains

Question 34

What are Costa Rica's exports?

Answer 34

Banana, Coffee, seafood

Question 35

When did the US open the Panama Canal?

Answer 35

1914

Question 36

When did the US lose control of the Panama Canal?

Answer 36

December 31, 1999

Question 37

How many ships pass through the Canal yearly

Answer 37

14,000

Question 38

What are Panama'sexport crops?

Answer 38

Coffee, sugar cane, rice, and banana

Question 39

What are Panama's prominent cities?

Answer 39

Colon (Caribbean seaboard) and Panama City (Pacific Ocean side, financial center, modern city)

Question 40

Where are the Greater Antilles?

Answer 40

The Caribbean Basin

Question 41

What are the social stratifications of the Caribbean Basin?

Answer 41

Europeans on top, Hispanics, Mixed European-African (Mulattos), Afro-Caribbean, and ethnic minorities hold the power

Question 42

Which country is the Largest Caribbean Island State just 90 miles from Florida?

Answer 42

Cuba

Question 43

What is the significant history of Cuba?

Answer 43

Independance in 1898, American dictator until 1959, then Fidel Castro gained control

Question 44

What did Cuba look like inder Fidel Castro's reign?

Answer 44

communist dictatorship, 1 million fled Cuba to Miami, and Cuban missle crisis in 1962

Question 45

Where is Guantanamo Bay? What is it?

Answer 45

Southeastern tip of Cuba, leased to the US in 1903 for a US Naval base...serves as a detention camp for terrorists and prisoners of war

Question 46

What are Cuba's export and stable crops?

Answer 46

Sugarcane, coffee, tobacco rice and beans

Question 47

What are Cuba's challenging circumstances?

Answer 47

Poverty, Crowded slums, aging infrastructure, and unemployment

Question 48

Where is Jamaica?

Answer 48

Directly south of Cuba

Question 49

What is Jamaica's colonial legacy?

Answer 49

British colony until 1962, Ceremonial head of state is the British monarch, and they still use British civil procedures

Question 50

What are Jamaica's Exports, minerals, and foreign investments?

Answer 50

sugar, banana, tobacco Bauxite Infrastructure, tourism

Question 51

Which countries are part of the Hispaniola?

Answer 51

Haiti and the Dominican Republic

Question 52

What are the significant history points for Haiti?

Answer 52

Independance in 1804 Revolution 1791-1804

Question 53

What is unique about Haiti's physiography?

Answer 53

It is located within a dangerous erathquake zone and Hurricane alley

Question 54

What are Haiti's development challenges?

Answer 54

Poorest country, material deprivation, political instability, repression, and foreign aid/remittances

Question 55

What is the other country on the island with Haiti?

Answer 55

Dominican Republic (shared a larger share of the Hispaniola)

Question 56

Who colonized the Dominican Republic?

Answer 56

Spain

Question 57

What are the DR's mineral and agricultural exports?

Answer 57

Nickel, gold, silver Sugar tobacco, coffee, and cocoa

Question 58

Which country is the smallest of the Greater Antilles?

Answer 58

Puerto Rico

Question 59

What is the capital of Peurto Rico?

Answer 59

San Jan

Question 60

When was Peurto Rico Claimed? For which state?

Answer 60

1493 ; Spain

Question 61

When did the US take control over Puerto Rico as a territory?

Answer 61

1898

Question 62

What benefits do people in Puerto Rico get from the US?

Answer 62

By law natural-born citizens and free travel to the US

Question 63

What does the country of Puerto Rico receive from the US?

Answer 63

Subsidy annually $4-13 bilion

Question 64

What happened in Puerto Rico 2017?

Answer 64

They had a non-binding referendum to become the 51st US state, but only 23% voted

Question 65

What are the characteristics of the Puerto Rican Economy?

Answer 65

unemployment 25% & low wages keep locals in poverty exports: coffee, electronic equipment, and pharmaceuticals

Question 66

What are the results of Puerto Rico's weak economy?

Answer 66

Massive emigration and underdeveloped private sectors