Chapter 9 Latin America

the migration of people from rural areas to cities

• indigenous

• dialect

• megacity

• urbanization

a city with more than 10 million people

• indigenous

• dialect

• megacity

• patois

descended from an area's first inhabitants

• indigenous

• dialect

• patois

• megacity

dialects that blend elements of different languages

• dialect

• patois

• megacity

• urbanization

a form of language unique to a particular group

• indigenous

• dialect

• patois

• megacity

Jai alai is a popular _________________ in Latin America.

• musical style

• art form

• sport

• dance

Mosaics are pictures and designs made by

• painting wax onto fabric

• setting small pieces of colored stones or tiles into mortar

• wrapping hard boiled eggs in paper

• carving images out of large stones

The Europeans who claimed parts of the Americas for Spain were called

• chinampas

• caudillos

• viceroys

• conquistadors

A ____________ is artwork that is painted directly onto a wall.

• mural

• mosaic

• glyph

• caudillo

When did most Latin American countries gain their independence?

• the 1600s

• the mid-1700s

• the 1800s

• the early 1900s