Chapter 5

Question 1

Training professionals for the benefit of developed countries

Answer 1

Brain drain

Question 2

Potential of returnees to contribute to the social and economic development of a home country

Answer 2

Brain gain

Question 3

Huge gap between gross income and total tourist dollars that remain in the Caribbean

Answer 3

Capital leakage

Question 4

Represents former English colonies, proposed regional industrialization plan and the development of Caribbean bank

Answer 4

CARICOM Caribbean Community and Common Market

Question 5

Economic flight of Caribbean people across the world

Answer 5

Caribbean diaspora

Question 6

Blending of African, European and some Amerindian cultural elements into the unique cultural systems found in the Caribbean

Answer 6

Creolization

Question 7

Duty free and tax exempt industrial parks for foreign corporations

Answer 7

Free trade zone

Question 8

Workers contracted to labor on estates for a set period of time

Answer 8

Indentured labor

Question 9

Run away slave that spreads culture along the Atlantic

Answer 9

Maroon

Question 10

U.S. Directly and indirectly asserted its control over a region

Answer 10

Neocolonialism

Question 11

Designates a cultural region that extends from midway up the coast of Brazil through the guianas and the Caribbean into the southeastern U.S.

Answer 11

Plantation America

Question 12

All countries with access to the Caribbean Sea

Answer 12

Rimland

Question 13

The forced removal of Africans from their native area

Answer 13

African diaspora

Question 14

What countries are in the rimland of the Caribbean?

Answer 14

Includes Balize and Guianas, Carribean coast of Central and South America

Question 15

Why hasn’t the Caribbean Sea supported large commercial fishing operations?

Answer 15

There are not enough of one kind of fish

Question 16

At what wind speed does a tropical disturbance become a hurricane?

Answer 16

74 MPH

Question 17

What area of the Caribbean is the most biologically diverse ecosystem of the marine world?

Answer 17

Coral reefs

Question 18

In which Caribbean country did the 2005 Hurricane Dennis have the most devastating effect?

Answer 18

Cuba

Question 19

According to your text, how did European colonialists in the Caribbean view forests?

Answer 19

Unproductive

Question 20

In which part of the Caribbean is the forest cover largely intact?

Answer 20

Puerto Rico

Question 21

How much of its original forest cover has Haiti lost?

Answer 21

97%

Question 22

On which island of the Caribbean did HIV/AIDS first appear?

Answer 22

Haiti

Question 23

What is the approximate population of the Caribbean?

Answer 23

44 million

Question 24

Which Caribbean countries have the lowest rates of natural increase in the region?

Answer 24

Cuba and Puerto Rico

Question 25

Which U.S. city has become the destination of choice for Cubans migrating to the United States?

Answer 25

Miami Florida

Question 26

What is the Caribbean diaspora?

Answer 26

The economic flight of the Caribbean people across the globe

Question 27

Maroon societies were composed of which group of people?

Answer 27

Groups of runaway slaves

Question 28

By the middle 1800s, when most colonial governments in the Caribbean began to free slaves, they sought indentured laborers from which other world region(s)?

Answer 28

Often from South, Southeast and east Asia

Question 29

From which country did the indentured workers who migrated to Guyana and Trinidad come?

Answer 29

India

Question 30

What well-known form of music is most closely associated with the Caribbean?

Answer 30

Reggea, calypso, meringue, rumba, zouk, steel drums

Question 31

What was the name of the official United States policy that held that the United States would not tolerate European military involvement in the Western Hemisphere?

Answer 31

Monroe doctrine

Question 32

Which American president was responsible for the construction of the Panama Canal?

Answer 32

Theodore Roosevelt

Question 33

What was the name of the initiative designed to launch rapid industrialization in Puerto Rico?

Answer 33

Operation Bootstrap

Question 34

Historically, what crop has been the most important one in the Caribbean?

Answer 34

Sugar Cane

Question 35

The rise of offshore banking in the Caribbean is most closely associated with ________, which began this industry in the 1920's.

Answer 35

Bahamas

Question 36

This city is now the largest home port for cruise lines and the second largest cruise-ship port in the world in terms of total visitors.

Answer 36

Bahamas

Question 37

What factor has prevented Caribbean countries from reaping the full benefits of their extensive investment in education?

Answer 37

Most leave the Caribbean, brain drain