Modern Nations

Question 1

This country’s culture contains many European and Native American influences and has artists, such as Frida Kahlo, that stem from the well known folk art

Answer 1

Mexico

Question 2

Despite the beautiful landscapes, this places is highly polluted (by cars and industrial areas) and gets the pollution trapped in its bowl like geography area

Answer 2

Mexico

Question 3

This country has built many maquiladoras(more than most countries) and has a lot of companies in the north that assemble pieces of a product from other countries.

Answer 3

Mexico

Question 4

This country hasn’t had a war since 1800’s and also doesn’t have an army

Answer 4

Costa Rica

Question 5

Has many Mayan ruins as well as mountains, lakes and volcanoes which provide fertile soil.

Answer 5

Guatemala

Question 6

Highest murder rate in Central America and also offers volcano surfing to attract tourism

Answer 6

Nicaragua

Question 7

Country best known for their canal which shortens distance and travel time between Pacific and Atlantic oceans

Answer 7

Panama

Question 8

This is a common wealth of the US

Answer 8

Puerto Rico

Question 9

Is 90 mi from Florida and has command economy, so the communist government decided supply and demand decisions.

Answer 9

Cuba

Question 10

This country’s main income source is remittances and as many outbreaks in violence caused by political views.

Answer 10

Haiti

Question 11

This country is the fifth largest in the world and is home to 187 million people.

Answer 11

Brazil

Question 12

In this city, it’s very filled with favelas. What’s the city that’s home to these and what are favelas.

Answer 12

Rio De Janeiro, favelas are overcrowded slums

Question 13

In what year did Brazil move its Capitol from Rio to Brasilia

Answer 13

1960

Question 14

Name three common exports from Brazil

Answer 14

Oranges, bananas, coffee

Question 15

85% of Argentinians are what ethnicity.

Answer 15

Spanish (branching from Spain) and Italian

Question 16

Beef products are this country’s chief exports

Answer 16

Argentina

Question 17

What country borrowed money from foreign banks in the 1900’s and created debt

Answer 17

Argentina

Question 18

What was the name of the man from the army who took control of Argentina as well as his wife’s name

Answer 18

Juan Perone and Evita Perone

Question 19

In what year was Juan thrown over and what year did the military take back over?

Answer 19

1955 and 1970

Question 20

In what country did the Mayans leave ruins of mountains, forests, and lakes

Answer 20

Guatemala

Question 21

In what year did Guatemala and the rest of Central America make a free trade barrier?

Answer 21

2004

Question 22

This country has the highest murder rates in Central America

Answer 22

Nicaragua

Question 23

This country hasn’t had a war since the 1800’s

Answer 23

Costa Rica

Question 24

In what year did the US give control of the Panama Canal back to Panama

Answer 24

1999

Question 25

The main income for Haitians

Answer 25

Remittances

Question 26

The main income for Haitians

Answer 26

Remittances

Question 27

Remittances definition

Answer 27

Money sent home by someone who's working abroad

Question 28

Since what year has Puerto Rico been commonwealth of the US

Answer 28

1952

Question 29

What is common wealth

Answer 29

A self governing territory of another country

Question 30

In 1998 this country elected Hugo Chavez as president

Answer 30

Venezuela

Question 31

This country lies along the Caribbean Sea and is the leading producers of oil and natural gas

Answer 31

Venezuela

Question 32

In Colombia, what percentage of people live in plateaus and valleys of the Andes

Answer 32

80%

Question 33

Name at least five examples of Colombia's exports

Answer 33

Sugarcane, coffee, bananas, coal, copper, oil

Question 34

This country's landscape ranges from dry deserts to ice formation

Answer 34

Chile

Question 35

This country has the largest fishing industry in South America

Answer 35

Chile

Question 36

What three subregions is Latin America divided into?

Answer 36

Middle America, the Caribbean, South America

Question 37

Why is Central America an isthmus?

Answer 37

Because it links north and South America

Question 38

What is a quota

Answer 38

A limit put on an amount of imported goods

Question 39

What are tariffs

Answer 39

Taxes put on imported items

Question 40

Interdependence

Answer 40

Relying on other countries

Question 41

Mixed economy

Answer 41

Includes different types of economy's. USA is a mix of market and command

Question 42

Market economy

Answer 42

Individuals make their own decisions on what to own and do and can make as much money as they can

Question 43

Command economy

Answer 43

Government makes key decisions

Question 44

Traditional economy

Answer 44

Individuals decide what to produce

Question 45

Nonrenewable resources

Answer 45

Resources that can't be used again and are limited

Question 46

Renewable resources

Answer 46

Resources that can be used again

Question 47

What countries make up the greater Antilles

Answer 47

Cuba, Puerto Rico, Jamaica

Question 48

What are the Antilles

Answer 48

The sections of islands from the Caribbean Sea

Question 49

Andes stretches along what coast

Answer 49

The pacific coast

Question 50

What is escarpment

Answer 50

A series of ridged cliffs

Question 51

Llanos are what

Answer 51

Tropical grasslands more northern in South America covering Venezuela and Colombia

Question 52

Pampas are what

Answer 52

A well known plain converting the majority of Argentina and and Uruguay

Question 53

What are tributaries

Answer 53

Small rivers that flow into large rivers

Question 54

Estuaries are what

Answer 54

Where fresh water and ocean water meet

Question 55

The Aztec people lived in what's now____

Answer 55

Mexico

Question 56

The Olmecs lived in what part of which country

Answer 56

The southern part of Mexico

Question 57

Where did the Mayans live

Answer 57

The Yucatan peninsula of Mexico