Deck 7: Latin America and the Caribbean

Question 1

The Amazon basin makes up about 2/3 of this country.

A)Mexico
B)Argentina
C)Colombia
D)Venezuela
E)Brazil

Answer 1

E

Question 2

El Niño is a period warming of sea-surface temperatures in the tropical Pacific off the coast of what country?

A)Venezuela
B)Mexico
C)Ecuador
D)Peru
E)Chile

Answer 2

D

Question 3

In what year were oil and gas discovered in the Amazon?

A)1942
B)1971
C)1961
D)1967
E)1974

Answer 3

D

Question 4

All of these countries are located in Central America except:

A)Paraguay
B)Guatemala
C)Panama
D)Nicaragua
E)Costa Rica

Question 5

Where is Lake Maracaibo located?

A)Venezuela
B)Mexico
C)Peru
D)Bolivia
E)Brazil

Question 6

Where is Iguaçu Falls located?

A)on the Paraná River,where Brazil,Argentina,and Paraguay meet
B)on the Amazon River in central Brazil
C)on the Orinoco River in Venezuela
D)between Mexico and Guatemala
E)on the Magdalena River in Colombia

Question 7

What is the highest mountain in the Andes?

A)Aconcagua
B)Machu Pichu
C)Denali
D)Altiplano
E)none of these

Question 8

When were wild plants and animals domesticated by native Latin Americans?

A)10,000 years ago
B)20,000 years ago
C)1,000 years ago
D)5,000 years ago
E)500 years ago

Question 9

What is the air flow called from the tropics to the Equator that affects climate patterns in Latin America?

A)rain shadow
B)trade winds
C)westerlies
D)El Niño
E)La Niña

Question 10

Mayans adapted to the decline of soil fertility by what type of agricultural practice?

A)intensive subsistence
B)swidden
C)nomadism
D)fallow farming

Question 11

What is Tierra Helada?

A)icy land
B)cold land
C)moderate land
D)warm land
E)hot land

Question 12

What country's main source of foreign exchange is ecotourism? Over 2.4 million tourists visited in 2013 alone.

A)Mexico
B)Honduras
C)Costa Rica
D)Peru
E)Ecuador

Question 13

What is an altiplano?

A)Caribbean marine ecosystems
B)large cave and pothole systems
C)cool,moist,flat areas for agriculture or grazing
D)desert areas along the Pacific Coast
E)none of the above

Question 14

Which of these regions is mostly covered with grasslands?

A)llanos of Venezuela
B)cerrados of Brazil
C)pampas of Argentina
D)all of the above
E)none of the above

Question 15

Manaus is a port on what water body?

A)the Caribbean Sea
B)the Atlantic Ocean
C)the Pacific Ocean
D)the Orinoco River
E)the Amazon River

Question 16

Where is the Atacama Desert located?

A)in Patagonia
B)in southeastern Brazil
C)east of the Andes
D)in Mexico
E)on the Pacific coast of South America

Question 17

The 2010 earthquake in ________ killed more than 300,000 people,displaced 1 million residents and destroyed buildings and infrastructure in its capital city of Port au Prince.

A)Mexico
B)Haiti
C)Brazil
D)Venezuela
E)Guatemala

Question 18

What is the Qori Kalis?

A)a retreating Andean glacier
B)a sinking Caribbean island
C)a coastal ecosystem experiencing sea-level rise
D)a hurricane in Central America
E)none of the above

Question 19

Which Indigenous Empire developed the chinampa agricultural system?

A)Maya
B)Inca
C)Aztec
D)Zapotec
E)none of the above

Question 20

In the mining districts of the Bolivian and Peruvian Andes,what was the most important mineral excavated during the colonial period?

A)gold
B)silver
C)copper
D)iron
E)none of the above

Question 21

Which of the following is true about authoritarian governments in the 1960s-1970s?

A)military control of Chile in 1973
B)economic stability and growth
C)Argentina's "Dirty War"
D)all of the above
E)none of the above

Question 22

The Panama Canal joins what two water bodies?

A)the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean
B)the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean
C)the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea
D)the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico
E)The Panama Canal does not join two water bodies.

Question 23

Which Latin American or Caribbean country leads coffee production in the world?

A)Colombia
B)Brazil
C)Peru
D)Honduras
E)Costa Rica

Question 24

Which cartels now control most of the drug flow,including cocaine,meth and heroin,to the United States?

A)Colombian cartels
B)Cuban cartels
C)Venezuelan cartels
D)Nicaraguan cartels
E)Mexican cartels

Question 25

What do structural adjustment programs do?

A)cut public spending on government services
B)remove trade barriers
C)reduce power of unions
D)all of the above
E)none of above

Question 26

What Indigenous social movement organized land occupation and won titles for 350,000 people in Brazil?

A)Rural Landless Workers Movement (MST)
B)Ejercito Zapatista de Liberación Nacional (EZLN)
C)Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities (CONAI)
D)Conamaq
E)Mapuche

Question 27

In 1804,former slaves declared independence from what colonial country to form Haiti?

A)Spain
B)Portugal
C)France
D)Great Britain
E)the Netherlands

Question 28

Which large estates in the Spanish colonial era grew crops to supply local industries?

A)ranchos
B)fincas
C)haciendas
D)plantations
E)quintas

Question 29

What is the dominant religion in Latin America?

A)Roman Catholicism
B)Protestantism
C)Islam
D)traditional Indigenous religions
E)none of the above

Question 30

Which of the following is not true about the Columbian Exchange?

A)rats and cats consumed ground-swelling birds
B)beans,cacao,vanilla were brought to the Americas
C)corn and cassava were brought to Africa
D)potatoes were brought to Ireland
E)Indigenous demographic collapse

Question 31

What was "The Demographic Collapse" in Latin America?

A)the result of epidemics of diseases introduced by the Europeans
B)a decline already in progress when the Europeans arrived
C)the result of the high rates of internal migration after WW II
D)the transition from high growth to low growth through birth control
E)the result of civil wars prevalent during the 19th century

Question 32

What trade agreement increased the growth of maquiladoras?

A)MERCOSUR
B)CAFTA
C)NAFTA
D)CARICOM
E)ALBA

Question 33

Which priest and peasant leader called for Mexican independence?

A)Miguel Hidalgo
B)Simon Bolivar
C)Fidel Castro
D)Salvador Allende
E)Jacobo Árbenz Guzmán

Question 34

The ________ have been called Latin America's "lost decade" because of the slowdown in growth and deterioration in living standards that occurred during that decade.

A)1870s
B)1950s
C)1980s
D)1930s
E)None of these is the "lost decade" of Latin America.

Question 35

In 2013,what country held trials for human rights violations under the dictator Rios Montt?

A)Argentina
B)Guatemala
C)Brazil
D)Chile
E)Bolivia

Question 36

The Treaty of Tordesillas was an agreement made by Pope Alexander VI in 1494 to divide the world between ________ and ________ along a north-south line 1100 miles west of the Cape Verde Islands.

A)Spain;France
B)Spain;Portugal
C)Portugal;Great Britain
D)Portugal;France
E)France;Great Britain

Question 37

Which Latin American country is the eighth-largest economy in the world?

A)Venezuela
B)Chile
C)Mexico
D)Brazil
E)none of above

Question 38

When did fair trade concerns begin to influence the coffee economy?

A)1960s
B)1970s
C)1980s
D)1990s
E)2000s

Question 39

Half the world's silver in the 16^th century was produced in mines at Potosi,now located in what country?

A)Chile
B)Argentina
C)Uruguay
D)Colombia
E)none of the above

Question 40

Which of the following is an example of a megacity?

A)Brasilia
B)Mexico City
C)Havana
D)San Juan
E)Quito

Question 41

The most massive migration in Latin America during the 20^th century has been a(n)________ migration.

A)rural to urban
B)urban to rural
C)rural to suburban
D)Caribbean to Europe
E)Latin America to Europe

Question 42

Which of the following widely spoken Indigenous languages in Latin America?

A)Guaraní
B)Quechua
C)Mayan
D)Nahuatl
E)all of the above

Question 43

Between 1942 and 1964,4.6 million temporary work permits were issued to Mexicans so they could participate in a guest worker program in the United States.This program was called:

A)Temporary Worker Program
B)Braceros Program
C)Maquiladora Program
D)NAFTA
E)REDD

Question 44

What Latin American artist(s)painted works known around the world?

A)Mario Vargas Llosa
B)Derek Walcott
C)Frida Kahlo
D)Diego Rivera
E)Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera

Question 45

What is one of the features of Brazil's economic success?

A)government support for science
B)domestic consumption
C)natural resources
D)all of the above
E)none of the above

Question 46

Which of these is an example of a syncretic religious practice?

A)Candomble
B)Umbanda
C)Voodoo
D)Santeria
E)all of the above

Question 47

What term is used to define money that is sent back to Latin America and the Caribbean from people working temporarily or permanently in other countries?

A)braceros
B)caceros
C)work fund
D)remittances
E)none of the above

Question 48

Irregular,poor settlements that surround Mexico City and are defined by the "self-help construction" are called:

A)Barrios
B)REDD
C)cartels
D)inner suburbs
E)Braceros

Question 49

All of the following is true about biofuels,except:

A)living matter is fermented for fuel
B)Brazil is a major exporter of biodiesel
C)ethanol is made from sugarcane
D)biofuel drives deforestation
E)wind power is more sustainable

Question 50

Governments in Latin America have a bias in favor of ________ regions by providing more services and investments to these specific areas.

A)urban
B)rural
C)coastal
D)export-producing
E)no bias

Question 51

What is a critique of the Green Revolution?

A)increased crop production
B)began to address poverty in the 1940s
C)promoted in Mexico,Argentina,and Brazil
D)training excludes women
E)all of the above

Question 52

Demand for what material generated initial economic interest in the Amazon Basin?

A)oil
B)rubber
C)silver
D)ground-dwelling birds
E)copper

Question 53

What is the Bolsa Familia?

A)government money to poor families for education and vaccines
B)corporate money to poor families for education and vaccines
C)minimum wage policy
D)gender equality policy
E)none of the above

Question 54

Over which of the following Latin American and Caribbean countries has/have the U.S.exerted political influence?

A)Cuba
B)Haiti
C)Nicaragua
D)Haiti and Nicaragua
E)all of the above

Question 55

Which of the following is true about young Bolivian migrants?

A)workers are as young as 14
B)Argentina is the destination country
C)women work in domestic sector
D)all of the above
E)none of the above

Question 56

What is the 2014 population of Latin America?

A)500 million
B)588 million
C)100 million
D)50 million
E)40 million

Question 57

What are examples of push factors that have driven people from rural areas to urban?

A)agricultural mechanization
B)environmental disasters
C)military repression
D)agricultural mechanization and environmental disasters
E)all of the above

Question 58

What is the main cause of deforestation in the Amazon?

A)logging
B)large scale agriculture
C)cattle ranching
D)small scale agriculture
E)mining

Question 59

What is liberation theology?

A)focus on the poor and social movements
B)emphasis on sobriety,frugality and personal salvation
C)pride in Argentinian Pope Francis's election in 2013
D)syncretic religion between Catholicism and Indigenous beliefs
E)all of the above

Question 60

Who lived in "Maroon communities"?

A)escaped and liberated slaves
B)people of mixed racial ancestry
C)Native tribes that did not want to assimilate
D)South Asians
E)none of these

Question 61

How much pollution in Mexico City is generated by vehicles?

A)35%
B)50%
C)60%
D)75%
E)90%

Question 62

What Latin American country has promoted a "myth of racial democracy"?

A)Mexico
B)Brazil
C)Chile
D)Argentina
E)Bolivia

Question 63

What society constructed terraces to reduce soil erosion and allow irrigation canals to flow?

A)Mayan
B)Incan
C)Aztec
D)Spanish
E)Portuguese