Unit 4 Test Flashcards
Guatemala is vulnerable to volcanoes and earthquakes because it sits on the edge of three ___________ plates.
tectonic
What is the capital of Honduras?
Tegucigalpa
The ___________ Antilles are a chain of islands in the Caribbean that includes Cuba and Hispaniola.
Greater
The Virgin of ___________ is Mexico’s patron saint.
Guadalupe
Mexicans organize candlelight processions to cemeteries and brightly decorate graves of family members on the Day of the ___________.
Dead
The Aztecs built the city of Tenochtitlán on Lake ___________ in 1345.
Tenochtitlan
___________ was the leader of Spanish conquistadors who conquered the Aztec Empire.
Hernán Cortéz
___________ was a region of Mexico, the American Southwest, and Central America where advanced cultures developed.
Mesoamerica
Lake ___________ is a lake in Guatemala surrounded by three volcanoes.
Atitlán
The ___________ is an impassable jungle in Panama.
Darién Gap
What is the capital of the Dominican Republic?
Santo Domingo
Montezuma II was the leader of the ___________ Empire.
Aztec
The ___________ Highway is a road system extending across North America down through South America.
Pan-American
What is the capital of Panama?
Panama City
___________ was the President of Panama who was removed from office by U.S. military forces.
Manuel Noriega
The ___________ of Panama is narrow land that connects North and South America.
Isthmus
The ___________ Coast is a wilderness area of rain forest in Honduras.
Mosquito
What is the capital of Guatemala?
Guatemala City
A(n) ___________ is a floating bed of reeds, manure, and mud used in agriculture.
Chinampa
What is the capital of Cuba?
Havana
___________ searched for the “southern sea” in Panama.
Vasco Núñez de Balboa
The Dominican Republic and Haiti share the island of ___________.
Hispaniola
After toppling dictator Fulgencio Batista, Fidel Castro made ___________ a communist state.
Cuba
___________ led peasant uprisings during the Mexican Revolution.
Emiliano Zapata
The ___________ Canyon is four times bigger than the Grand Canyon.
Copper
The ___________ religion teaches worship of orishas, or spirits, similar to saints.
Santería
