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A : 1 Question: What mountain range runs down the Pacific coast of S. America? Answer: Andes Back to the Board
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JEOPARDY: LATIN AMERICA UNIT
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A : 1 Question:
What mountain range runs down the Pacific coast of S. America?
Answer:Andes
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A : 2 Question:
Which river begins in the Andes Mountains and flowers eastward, flowing from Brazil into the Atlantic Ocean?
Answer:Amazon River
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A : 3 Question:
What is the name of the grassy, treeless plains of Colombia and Venezuela?
Answer: llanos
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A : 4 Question:
Which technique of farming is used by native peoples of Latin America to clear fields to grow crops?
Answer:slash and burn
farming
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A : 5 Question:
What country contains the most of the Amazon rainforest?
Answer:Brazil
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B : 1 Question:
Which cattle grazing area is known for the gaucho culture in southern Brazil?
Answer:Pampas
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B : 2 Question:
What ancient technique is used to grow crops on hillsides?
Answer:terraced farming
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B : 3 Question:
Name 2 affects that the Andes Mountains have had on South America?
Answer: large concentrations
of population settles west of the mountains; barrier to people moving inland; need to learn terracing techniques of farming
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B : 4 Question:
Of the following, which would be best for farming?○ Area around
volcanoes○ Mountains○ Rain forests○ llanos
Answer: llanos
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B : 5 Question:
Of the following, which is not a part of infrastructure?○ Monuments○ Sewers○ Housing○ Transportation
Answer:monuments
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C : 1 Question:
Which two groups did the most to shape the culture of Mexico?
Answer:Spanish and the
natives
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C : 2 Question:
What trade agreement is most expected to contribute to Mexico’s economic prosperity?
Answer:NAFTA
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C : 3 Question:
What are the two things that central american/caribbean economies are most dependent upon?
Answer:Agriculture and
tourism
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C : 4 Question:
What three groups most shaped the culture of the countries in the Caribbean?
Answer:Natives, Europeans,
and Africans
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C : 5 Question:
What trade group was created to make the member nations more economically stable?
Answer:Mercosur
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D : 1 Question:
What two countries gained control of land in South America as a result of the Treaty of Tordesillas?
Answer:Spain and Portugal
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D : 2 Question:
Why did the Portuguese bring in Africans to Brazil?
Answer:to work on the
plantations
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D : 3 Question:
What sector of Mexico’s economy are the most focusing on developing?
Answer:Industrial
manufacturing
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D : 4 Question:
Panama was the best place to build a canal connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Why?
Answer:Its location
(geography)
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D : 5 Question:
Despite Spanish domination, the Inca language survived. This language is known as what?
Answer:Quechua
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E : 1 Question:
Which native tribe originated in the Andes Mountains of Peru?
Answer:Inca
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E : 2 Question:
Brazil was colonized by what nation?
Answer:Portugal
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E : 3 Question:
What event served as a catalyst (sped up) the independence movement of the United Provinces of Central America?
Answer:Mexico’s
independence/revolution
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E : 4 Question:
What is exchanged in a debt for nature swap?
Answer:A country’s debt is
relieved in exchange for the protection of wildlife.
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E : 5 Question:
What term describes a government under harsh, military leadership?
Answer:Junta
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F: 1 Question:
What is the goal of land reform?
Answer:Divide land and
wealth more fairly
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F: 2 Question:
The following are all associated with what?○ Free speech○ Fair elections○ Citizen participation
Answer:democracy
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F: 3 Question:
What is the name for a person of mixed Native American and European descent?
Answer:mestizo
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F: 4 Question:
What is the most important reason that many Latin Americans can not take advantage of the free-market economy?
Answer:Lack education and
cannot get meaningful jobs
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F: 5 Question:
What is the official language of Brazil?
Answer:Portuguese
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G: 1 Question:
Which Latin American country has the largest territory and population?
Answer:Brazil
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G: 2 Question:
The culture of Central America and the Caribbean differ from that of Mexico because it has been shaped by who?
Answer:Other Europeans and
Africans
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G: 3 Question:
What concept is characterized by the slow increase in temperatures?
Answer:Global warming
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G: 4 Question:
What term refers to the wide range of plants, insects, and wildlife?
Answer:biodiversity
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G: 5 Question:
What have the following resulted in in Latin America?○ Demand for
hardwoods○ Clearing land for
farming○ Clearing land for
cattle to graze
Answer:Deforestion of the rain
forest
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H: 1 Question:
What is the name for a city’s sewers, transportation systems, electricity, and housing?
Answer:Infrastructure
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H: 2 Question:
The following are all reasons to do what?○ Drugs and medicines
may be made from the plants
○ Undiscovered species may live there
○ May affect global warming
Answer:Preserve the
rainforest
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H: 3 Question:
What is the name for the southern tip of South America?
Answer:Tierra del Fuego
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H: 4 Question:
What farming technique allowed the Inca to survive in the Andes?
Answer:Terraced farming
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H: 5 Question:
What farming technique results in the shrinking of the rainforest?
Answer:Slash-and-burn
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