Unit 4 Test

Question 1

Guatemala is vulnerable to volcanoes and earthquakes because it sits on the edge of three ___________ plates.

Answer 1

tectonic

Question 2

What is the capital of Honduras?

Answer 2

Tegucigalpa

Question 3

The ___________ Antilles are a chain of islands in the Caribbean that includes Cuba and Hispaniola.

Answer 3

Greater

Question 4

The Virgin of ___________ is Mexico’s patron saint.

Answer 4

Guadalupe

Question 5

Mexicans organize candlelight processions to cemeteries and brightly decorate graves of family members on the Day of the ___________.

Answer 5

Dead

Question 6

The Aztecs built the city of Tenochtitlán on Lake ___________ in 1345.

Answer 6

Tenochtitlan

Question 7

___________ was the leader of Spanish conquistadors who conquered the Aztec Empire.

Answer 7

Hernán Cortéz

Question 8

___________ was a region of Mexico, the American Southwest, and Central America where advanced cultures developed.

Answer 8

Mesoamerica

Question 9

Lake ___________ is a lake in Guatemala surrounded by three volcanoes.

Answer 9

Atitlán

Question 10

The ___________ is an impassable jungle in Panama.

Answer 10

Darién Gap

Question 11

What is the capital of the Dominican Republic?

Answer 11

Santo Domingo

Question 12

Montezuma II was the leader of the ___________ Empire.

Answer 12

Aztec

Question 13

The ___________ Highway is a road system extending across North America down through South America.

Answer 13

Pan-American

Question 14

What is the capital of Panama?

Answer 14

Panama City

Question 15

___________ was the President of Panama who was removed from office by U.S. military forces.

Answer 15

Manuel Noriega

Question 16

The ___________ of Panama is narrow land that connects North and South America.

Answer 16

Isthmus

Question 17

The ___________ Coast is a wilderness area of rain forest in Honduras.

Answer 17

Mosquito

Question 18

What is the capital of Guatemala?

Answer 18

Guatemala City

Question 19

A(n) ___________ is a floating bed of reeds, manure, and mud used in agriculture.

Answer 19

Chinampa

Question 20

What is the capital of Cuba?

Answer 20

Havana

Question 21

___________ searched for the “southern sea” in Panama.

Answer 21

Vasco Núñez de Balboa

Question 22

The Dominican Republic and Haiti share the island of ___________.

Answer 22

Hispaniola

Question 23

After toppling dictator Fulgencio Batista, Fidel Castro made ___________ a communist state.

Answer 23

Cuba

Question 24

___________ led peasant uprisings during the Mexican Revolution.

Answer 24

Emiliano Zapata

Question 25

The ___________ Canyon is four times bigger than the Grand Canyon.

Answer 25

Copper

Question 26

The ___________ religion teaches worship of orishas, or spirits, similar to saints.

Answer 26

Santería