World Geography Chap 11

Question 0

What is the origin of many islands in the Caribbean?

Answer 0

Volcanic and tectonic action

Question 1

What islands make up the greater Antilles

Answer 1

Cuba, Hispaniola, Puerto Rico, & Jamaica

Question 2

What are the Greater Antilles?

Answer 2

The 4 largest islands in the Caribbean ocean

Question 3

What was the occupation of most of the early indigenous populations of Central America

Answer 3

Farmers

Question 4

What is the only non-Spanish speaking country in Central America?

Answer 4

Belize

Question 5

Most of the regions Central American Indians now live in what country?

Answer 5

Guatemala

Question 6

Chocolate is produced from beans found in what tree?

Answer 6

Cacao trees

Question 7

Which Central American country has the highest standard of living

Answer 7

Costa Rica

Question 8

Which Greater Antilles island is a commonwealth of the United States?

Answer 8

Puerto Rico

Question 9

Until 1999, the Panama Canal was controlled by whom?

Answer 9

The United States

Question 10

European colonists in the Caribbean were interested in what agricultural product?

Answer 10

Sugar cane

Question 11

What tectonic plates are located on Central America and the Caribbean?

Answer 11

Cocas plate, Caribbean plate, and North American plate

Question 12

What is the dominant climate of Central America and the Caribbean islands?

Answer 12

Tropical wet & try

Question 13

Why do the low islands of the Caribbean have limited water sources?

Answer 13

Tons of rain falls and sinks into the limestone quickly

Question 14

Which country has major deposits of bauxite?

Answer 14

Jamaica

Question 15

Which country introduced the concept of ecotourism to the region?

Answer 15

Costa Rica

Question 16

Which two cities mark the entrance and exit to the Panama Canal

Answer 16

Colon & Panama City

Question 17

What are the important commercial crops in Central America and the Caribbean

Answer 17

Bananas, coffee, sugar, cotton

Question 18

What is the dominant religion in Central America?

Answer 18

Roman Catholic

Question 19

Why did the indigenous population of Central America decline with the arrival of Europeans?

Answer 19

The Europeans brought diseases

Question 20

What is the most dominant ethnic group in panama

Answer 20

Mestizo

Question 21

Which European country did not establish sugar plantations in the Caribbean ?

Answer 21

Spain

Question 22

The United States took what two Islands from Spain in 1898?

Answer 22

Cuba and Puerto Rico

Question 23

More than a third of what country’s population is East Indian?

Answer 23

Trinidad and Tobago

Question 24

What is Papiamento?

Answer 24

A creo language of Spanish, Dutch, & Portuguese

Question 25

Where did voodoo originate?

Answer 25

Haiti

Question 26

What is the most industrialized country in the Caribbean?

Answer 26

Puerto Rico

Question 27

Spoke of African and European ancestry

Answer 27

Mulatto

Question 28

Which island in the Caribbean were formed from volcanoes

Answer 28

Martinique

Question 29

Why has damage from hurricanes increased with the increase in population?

Answer 29

More people = more building and therefore more property gets destroyed

Question 30

Island containing Haiti and the Dominican Republic

Answer 30

Hispaniola

Question 31

Native

Answer 31

Indigenous

Question 32

Trees who's roots grow in salt water

Answer 32

Mangrove

Question 33

Blend of European and African or Caribbean Indian languages

Answer 33

Creole

Question 34

Blended version of African religious beliefs and Christianity

Answer 34

Voodoo

Question 35

Ore from which aluminum is made

Answer 35

Bauxite

Question 36

Form of voodoo that originated in Cuba

Answer 36

Santeria

Question 37

Caribbean community and Common market

Answer 37

Caricon

Question 38

What are the main beliefs of voodoo

Answer 38

Good and bad spirits

Question 39

What physical process is responsible for creating many islands that found in the Lesser Antilles?

Answer 39

Tectonics

Question 40

What country built the Panama Canal?

Answer 40

The United States

Question 41

Why has the Panama Canal been an important economic resource?

Answer 41

Ships don't have to sail very far

Question 42

Why did independence form Spain have little affect on the lives of most of the people living In Central America?

Answer 42

Spanish officials left but the old ways of doing things remained.

Question 43

Compare and contrast Cuba's economy with the economies of the other Caribbean countries

Answer 43

Cuba is the only country in the Caribbean that is not a member of Caricon. And communist people sold things in their homes. the government didn't think they needed new things.

Question 44

How has the Caribbean history been reflected in its culture today

Answer 44

The diversity of language and religions