Modern Nations

Question 1

Cowboys from this country are called vaqueros.

Answer 1

Mexico

Question 2

Artists from this country include Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo.

Answer 2

Mexico

Question 3

The north region of this country has dry and rocky places so farmers have had to adapt to it.

Answer 3

Mexico

Question 4

During the 1990’s, rebel groups fought the government and over 200,000 people were killed in this nation.

Answer 4

Guatemala

Question 5

This country has the highest literacy rate in Central America.

Answer 5

Costa Rica

Question 6

In 1999, the US gave control of this country back to it.

Answer 6

Panama

Question 7

This country lies 90 miles south of Florida

Answer 7

Cuba

Question 8

A major source of income in this country is remittances

Answer 8

Haiti

Question 9

Citizens in this country are American citizens and can come to the US any time they want.

Answer 9

Puerto Rico

Question 10

This is the growth of cities due to internal migration.

Answer 10

Urbanization

Question 11

The process by which people people adjust to their culture.

Answer 11

Socialization

Question 12

This is when people came to believe that their culture is superior to others.

Answer 12

Ethnocentrism

Question 13

In this the power is held by the people

Answer 13

Democracy

Question 14

In this the ruler rules by force

Answer 14

Dictatorship

Question 15

This is led by a king or queen

Answer 15

Monarchy

Question 16

This is where the government makes they key economic decisions about resources.

Answer 16

Command economy

Question 17

These are tall grasslands that stretch from Colombia to Argentina

Answer 17

Llanos

Question 18

These cover most of Argentina and Uruguay and provide grazing land

Answer 18

Pampas

Question 19

In 1519 a Spanish army led by _____ took over the Aztec

Answer 19

Hernan Cortez

Question 20

These people lived in Mexico from 300-900 and they completely disappeared all of a sudden

Answer 20

Maya

Question 21

These people lived in Mexico from 1500 to 300 BCE and specialized in minerals, corn, beans and squash

Answer 21

Olmec

Question 22

This person led a conquest that conquered the Inca

Answer 22

Francisco Pizarro

Question 23

These people lived in Mexico and built the city of Tula

Answer 23

Toltec

Question 24

These people lived in central Mexico, captured Tula and their capital was Tenochtitlan

Answer 24

Aztec

Question 25

These people lived in the 1400's along the Andes

Answer 25

Inca

Question 26

This person was a Venezuelan military leader who was the president of Bolivia

Answer 26

Simon Bolivar

Question 27

This person was the liberator of Argentina

Answer 27

San Martian

Question 28

This person was a president of Argentina and and a general and politician

Answer 28

Juan Peron

Question 29

This person is the current president of Cuba

Answer 29

Raul Castro

Question 30

This person was the former president of Venezuela

Answer 30

Hugo Chavez

Question 31

This person is the best known leader of the Haitian revolution

Answer 31

Toussaint L 'Ouverture

Question 32

Many foreign countries have built______ or factories which workers assemble parts in other countries

Answer 32

Maquiladoras

Question 33

These are farms that are common in Mexico where one family grows enough food to live

Answer 33

Subsistence farms

Question 34

This is the position of a place on the earths surface

Answer 34

Location

Question 35

This describes the characteristics of things that make it unique

Answer 35

Place

Question 36

This is how people affect or change their environment to meet their needs.

Answer 36

Human Environment Interaction

Question 37

That explains how and why people, places and things move from place to play

Answer 37

Movement

Question 38

This refers to areas on the earths surface that have several common characteristics

Answer 38

Region

Question 39

This projection gives a good overall view

Answer 39

Winkel Teipel

Question 40

This projection shows land close its true shape and size

Answer 40

Goodies interrupted equal area projection

Question 41

This projection had minor distortions and the north and south poles are flattened.

Answer 41

Robinson projection

Question 42

This projection shows land shapes fairly accurately, but not size or distance

Answer 42

Mercator projection

Question 43

This is the fifth largest country in the world and the largest in South America

Answer 43

Brazil

Question 44

This country has the largest population of all the Latin American countries with 187 million people

Answer 44

Brazil

Question 45

Cowboys from this country are called gauchos

Answer 45

Argentina

Question 46

Beef is the chief export in this country

Answer 46

Argentina

Question 47

In 1998, this country elected Hugo Chavez as their president

Answer 47

Venezuela

Question 48

This country is one of the worlds leading producers of oil and natural gas

Answer 48

Venezuela

Question 49

This country is the worlds leading supplier of emeralds

Answer 49

Colombia

Question 50

80% of people in this country live in valleys and highland plateaus

Answer 50

Colombia

Question 51

This country is 2652 miles long

Answer 51

Chile

Question 52

This country has an unusual ribbonlike shape

Answer 52

Chile