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1
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a vast area of grassland and rich soil in south-central South America

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Pampas

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a large system of mountain ranges located along the pacific coast of central and South America

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Andes mountains

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A forest region located in the tropical zone with a heavy concentration of different species of broadleaf trees

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Rainforest

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A way of clearing fields for planting by cutting trees, brush, and grasses and burning them

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Slash-and-burn farming

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An ancient technique for growing crops on hillsides or mountains, slopes using step like horizontal fields cut into the slopes

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Terraced farming

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A factor that draws or attracts people to another location

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Pull factor

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Factor that causes people to leave their homelands and migrate to another region

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Push factor

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The basic support system needed to keep an economy going, including power, communication, transportation, water, sanitation and education systems

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Infrastructure

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An important trade agreement creating a huge zone of cooperation on trade and economic issues in North America

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NAFTA

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Factory in Mexico that assembles imported materials into finished goods for export

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Maquiladora

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Style of music that began in Trinidad in combines musical elements from Africa, Spain, and the Caribbean

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Calypso

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12
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A style of music that developed in Jamaica in the 1960s and is rooted in Africa, Caribbean, and American music often dealing with social problems in religion

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Reggae

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13
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The variety of organisms within an economy

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biodiversity

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A debt- Reducing deal where in an organization agrees to pay off a certain amount of government debt in return for government protection of a certain portion of rain forest

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Debt-for-nature swap

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The cutting down and clearing away of trees and forest

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Deforestation

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A government run by a few persons or small group

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Oligarchy

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A government run by generals after military takeover

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Junta

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A military dictator or political boss

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Caudillo

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Who is Simon bolivar and why is he important

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He was a general who led South American wars of independence against Spain
He won a great victory against the Spanish

20
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What is the length in miles of South America

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7000 miles

21
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What are the names given to the Andes mountains and where are they located

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Sierra madre, teh Andes, the Rockies

The western portion of north, central, and South America

22
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What countries do the Orinoco, Amazon, and parana River run through

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Orinoco- Venezuela and Colombia
Amazon- Peru, Bolivia, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Brazil
Parana- Paraguay and Uruguay

23
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How long are the Orinoco, Amazon, parana River

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  • 1500 miles
  • 4000 miles
  • 3000 miles
24
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What directions do the Orinoco, Amazon, and parana rivers run

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-
-west to east
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25
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What three groups with the Caribbean islands

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Bahamas
greater Antilles
lesser Antilles

26
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What are the greater Antilles made of

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Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola, Puerto Rico

27
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What are names of the lesser Antilles

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Windward islands

Leeward islands

28
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South America is the leading continent of exporting what

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Raw material

29
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What resources do Venezuela/Mexico, Brazil, and Trinidad produce

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  • oil
  • hydroelectric power
  • methanol and ammonia
30
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What are the 3 highest urbanized countries in South America

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Argentina, Brazil, chile

31
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What is the highest populated city in South/Latin America

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Mexico City

32
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Why does South American soil become exhausted

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South America doesn’t use crop rotation to put nutrients back in the soil

33
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What are some of the best things about tourism vs negative effects

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Best things: they spend money and that is helping create jobs
Negative things: hotel owners don’t live in the same place as their hotels, so they make bad decisions for their employees. They just want to make money so they treat their employees bad. Pollution also increases

34
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Who is Cortes

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Spanish conquistador

He conquered the Aztec empire in 1519 and built Mexico City

35
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What did the Aztec think Cortes was and why

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They thought he was a God because they thought the Spanish word Gods

36
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What happened to the Aztec

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Cortes and his soldiers conquered the Aztec

37
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What is Tenochtitlán and what is it today

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The ancient capital of the Aztec

Sit of Mexico City today

38
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What are the cartel

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A group that fights between gangs

39
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How have the cartel affected Mexico’s government

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They spend more money on trying to stop all the violence

40
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What is the Panama Canal

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a ship cut through panama connecting the Caribbean Sea with the Pacific ocean

41
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How did the Aztec get to South America

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Descendants of people who may have crossed land bridge from Siberia to Alaska and eventually found their way down to South America

42
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What is the span of the Incan Empire

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2500 miles along the west coast of South America

They had about 20000 mile road

43
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What are three global resources the rain forest gives to the environment

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It’s vegetation helps to clean the earths atmosphere
Regulate the climate
Shelter to several million species

44
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What are effects natives are having on the rainforest

Land and pollution

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They clear the rain forest

The pollution increases

45
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How has deforestation led to global warming

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Common method for clearing the rainforest, know as slash-and-burn, produces carbon dioxide and other harmful gases

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