The West Indies Flashcards
What are Islets?
Small, Uninhabitable islands
What are the 3 main groups?
Bahamas, The Greater Antilles, and Lesser Antilles
Who discovered these 3 main groups?
Christopher Columbus
What country and state are in between?
Florida and South America
What 3 things do the Bahamas have?
Cluster of coral islands, no mountains, and no good soil.
The Bahamas are the members of what commonwealth?
The British Commonwealth
What is the capital of the Bahamas?
Nassau
What is included with The Great Antilles?
Hint: 4 places
Cuba, Hispaniola, Puerto Rico, and Jamaica
The Great Antilles was used by Spain as a base for exploring what?
The New World
What is the capital of Cuba?
Havana
Fill In The Blank:
It is the __________ and most__________ island in the West Indies.
Largest and Populous
What kind of government did Fidel Castro establish in the Western Hemisphere?
The First Communist Government
Fill In The Blank:
_________ on the west side and _________ on the east side in Hispaniola
1) Haiti
2) Dominican Republic
Haiti is the ____________ country in the Western Hemisphere
The Poorest Country
Voodoo is the mixture of Western American____________, _____________, and the element of Roman Catholicism.
1) Spirit Worship
2) Black Magic
People in Haiti grow things like coffee and rice. What other 3 items do they grow?
Sugar, Mangoes, and Corn
What language do Haiti people speak that is a French and African language?
They speak Creole
What is the capital of the Dominican Republic?
Santo Domingo
The Dominican Republic is defined by one word, ___________.
Mountainous
The people in The Dominican Republic also grow coffee and rice. What other 5 items do they grow?
Sugar, Cotton, Cacao, Potatoes, and Bananas
What is the capital of Jamaica?
Kingston
What is the capital of Puerto Rico?
San Juan
Fill In The Blank:
Puerto Rico is a territory of the ____________
United States (U.S)
Puerto Rico was claimed the U.S after what war?
The Spanish-American War
The Lesser Antilles are a chain of smaller islands that form what?
The eastern boundary of Caribbean Sea
The Leeward Islands go from the Virgin Islands to what?
Dominica
Leeward means an island that is sheltered from what occurrence?
Prevailing winds on the open ocean
What do the Windward Islands suffer from?
From many hurricanes
What 2 is the largest of the Lesser Antilles?
Trinidad and Tobago
Trinidad and Tobago were formerly owned by who?
The British
The West Indies has how many islands?
1,000 Islands
