Deck 7: Latin America and the Caribbean

Question 1

Which of these regions is mostly covered with grasslands?

A)llanos of Venezuela
B)cerrados of Brazil
C)pampas of Argentina
D)They are all grasslands.
E)None of these is grassland.

Answer 1

D

Question 2

What country has approximately one-third of the world's remaining undisturbed temperate forests?

A)Paraguay
B)Bolivia
C)Costa Rica
D)Argentina
E)Chile

Answer 2

E

Question 3

This is the highest mountain in the Andes.

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

Answer 3

A

Question 4

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 5

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 these

Question 6

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

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

Question 7

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 8

Ecotourism is this country's main source of foreign exchange.Over 2.2 million tourists visited in 2011 alone.

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

Question 9

Oil and gas were discovered in the Amazon in what year?

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

Question 10

All of these countries are located in Central America except:

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

Question 11

What Latin American country was affected the most by Hurricane Mitch in late October 1998?

A)Chile
B)Guyana
C)Honduras
D)Brazil
E)Mexico

Question 12

Which of the following areas has been identified as a possible "tipping point"?

A)Havana,Cuba
B)San Juan,Puerto Rico
C)Llanos
D)Sierra Madre Oriental
E)Amazon Basin

Question 13

The 2010 earthquake in ________ killed as many as 300,000,000 people and destroyed buildings and infrastructure in it capital city of Port au Prince.

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

Question 14

Tierra Helada means:

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

Question 15

This agricultural system,often used in tropical forests,involves cutting trees and brush and burning them so that crops can benefit from cleared ground and nutrients in the ash.

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

Question 16

All of these are dry regions in South America except:

A)the Pantanal
B)the Atacama
C)Patagonia
D)All of these are dry regions.
E)None of these is dry regions.

Question 17

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 18

Where is Lake Maracaibo located?

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

Question 19

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

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

Question 20

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 21

Which of the following regions/countries received independence last?

A)Caribbean
B)Central America
C)South America
D)Mexico
E)They all gained independence at the same time.

Question 22

Farms used to grow crops mainly for local consumption during the colonial era were called:

A)encomienda
B)minifundia
C)latifundia
D)haciendas
E)plantations

Question 23

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 24

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 25

What area did the Incans occupy?

A)Yucatan Peninsula
B)Brazilian Highlands
C)Andes Mountains
D)All of these were part of the Incan Empire.
E)none of these

Question 26

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 27

When did Panama regain control of the Panama Canal?

A)1977
B)1999
C)1983
D)2006
E)Panama has not regained control of the Canal.

Question 28

All of these are native South American plants except:

A)coffee
B)coca
C)tobacco
D)potatoes
E)All of these are native South American plants.

Question 29

The silver mines at Potosi are now within:

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

Question 30

When did Panama become independent of Colombia?

A)1873
B)1783
C)2003
D)1903
E)none of these

Question 31

What is the dominant religion in Latin America?

A)Roman Catholicism
B)Protestantism
C)Islam
D)traditional Amerindian religion
E)none of these

Question 32

Columbus landed in October,1492 in what is today:

A)the Bahamas
B)Cuba
C)Dominican Republic
D)Mexico
E)Florida

Question 33

Which of these was a provision of the Hay/Bunau-Varilla Treaty between Panama and the United States?

A)Panama conceded rights to the United States in the Panama Canal Zone "as if it were sovereign."
B)The United States could build a canal in the Zone.
C)The United States could administer,fortify,and defend the Canal Zone "in perpetuity."
D)It provided all of these.
E)It provided none of these.

Question 34

Which of these was introduced by the Europeans into Latin America after 1492?

A)cattle
B)horses
C)sheep
D)all of these
E)none of these

Question 35

Which of the following is an example of a megacity?

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

Question 36

These programs allow countries and companies with high emissions to get credit for emission reductions by providing financial and other incentives for forest protection in the developing world.

A)OPEC
B)SAP
C)NAFTA
D)MERCOSUR
E)REDD

Question 37

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 38

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 39

What was the "Columbian Exchange"?

A)the interaction between the ecologies of two continents
B)the silver and gold trade with Europe
C)the adoption of European cultural practices
D)the slave trade from Africa to the Caribbean
E)none of these

Question 40

Who was the Panamanian leader implicated in drug trafficking?

A)Manuel Noriega
B)Fidel Castro
C)Jean Bertrand Aristide
D)Hugo Chavez
E)Augusto Pinochet

Question 41

Which of the following is(are)true of liberation theology?

A)It focused on the poor and disadvantaged.
B)It is informed by the perceived preference of Jesus for the poor and helpless.
C)It was influenced by the writings of Karl Marx and other revolutionaries.
D)It was espoused by the Second Vatican Council,called by Pope John XXIII in 1962.
E)All of these are true.

Question 42

The Incas developed the chinampa agricultural system.

Question 43

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)They have no bias in favor of any particular region.

Question 44

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

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

Question 45

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 46

Brazil is a major exporter of ethanol.

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)remittances
C)work fund
D)caceros
E)none of these

Question 48

Studies suggest that NAFTA has led to the decrease of thousands of jobs in Mexico.

Question 49

A favelas is a Brazilian term for an informal settlement that grows up around an urban core.

Question 50

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 51

The westerlies are air movements from the Tropics to the Poles that are dragged into a west-to-east flow.

Question 52

Brazil is one of the primary exporters of drugs to the United States.

Question 53

Slave imports to Latin America from Africa totaled 20 million people during the colonial period.

Question 54

The majority of people in Latin America live in cities.

Question 55

The most massive migration in Latin America during the 20ᵗʰ 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 56

The Andes Mountains run parallel to the west coast of South America.

Question 57

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

A)Candomble
B)Umbanda
C)Voodoo
D)Santeria
E)They all are.

Question 58

The "pristine myth" of pre-Columbian Latin America is the idea that native peoples had had little impact on the environment before the Europeans arrived.

Question 59

The Altiplano are the high elevation plateaus and basins that lie within even higher mountains.

Question 60

Most people in Latin America speak Spanish or:

A)Portuguese
B)French
C)English
D)Italian
E)German

Question 61

Marianismo constructs the ideal woman in the image of the Virgin Mary.

Question 62

A Mestizo is a person of European and African-American descent.

Question 63

A Mulatto is a person of European and African-American descent.