Latin America Review

What is the purpose of the Panama Canal?

• Riding the rapids is cool!

• Panama was looking to increase tourism.

• To shorten the travel time between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans

• To demonstrate American power over Mexico

A farmer who farms just enough for his family is known as...

• selfish.

• wise.

• uneducated.

• a subsistence farmer.

South America is often compared to lungs. Why is that?

• The rainforest in South America need oxygen just like lungs.

• South America is a lung.

• The rainforests create oxygen. They are the "lungs" of the Earth.

• South America is shaped like a lung.

The Columbian Exchange is best described as...

• The sharing of ideas, goods, and diseases from the "Old World" to the "New World."

• Native people of South America continue to have limited contact with people from Europe.

• Spain and Portugal abandoned their colonies in the "New World."

• Economics in South America is based upon the market in Columbia.

An isthmus is defined as...

• A canal near Panama.

• A piece of land between two larger pieces of land.

• A body of water between two pieces of land.

• The Southern tip of South America.

Farming corn, raising cattle, and gathering wool from sheep would best be defined as...

• Subsistence Farming

• Ecotourism

• Agriculture

• the Columbian Exchange.

The Aztec Civilization are best known for...

• being wiped out by smallpox.

• being conquered by the Spanish.

• harvesting the cacao bean for chocolate.

• all of the above.

Latin American culture would include...

• fajitas and menudo.

• the Catholic faith.

• the Amazon river.

• Cinco De Mayo.

By definition, literacy is defined as...

• the ability to understand culture.

• the ability to read and write.

• the ability to hold a job.

• having a public education.

What two countries are primarily responsible for colonizing Latin America?

• Portugal and England

• Mexico and Brazil

• Spain and Brazil

• Portugal and Spain