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Category 1 : 1 Question: What mountain range runs down the Pacific coast of S. America? Answer: Andes Back to the Board
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Category 1 : 1 Question:
What mountain range runs down the Pacific coast of S. America?
Answer:Andes
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Category 1 : 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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Category 1 : 3 Question:
What is the name of the grassy, treeless plains of Colombia and Venezuela?
Answer: llanos
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Category 1 : 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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Category 1 : 5 Question:
What country contains the most of the Amazon rainforest?
Answer:Brazil
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Category 2 : 1 Question:
Which cattle grazing area is known for the gaucho culture in southern Brazil?
Answer:Pampas
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Category 2 : 2 Question:
What ancient technique is used to grow crops on hillsides?
Answer:terraced farming
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Category 2 : 3 Question:
What farming technique would result in the shrinking of the rain forest?
Answer:Slash and burn
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Category 2 : 4 Question:
Of the following, which would be best for farming?○ Area around
volcanoes○ Mountains○ Rain forests○ llanos
Answer: llanos
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Category 2 : 5 Question:
Of the following, which is not a part of infrastructure?○ Monuments○ Sewers○ Housing○ Transportation
Answer:monuments
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Category 3 : 1 Question:
Which two groups did the most to shape the culture of Mexico?
Answer:Spanish and the
natives
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Category 3 : 2 Question:
What trade agreement is most expected to contribute to Mexico’s economic prosperity?
Answer:NAFTA
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Category 3 : 3 Question:
What is the name of the factories along the US border in Mexico that manufacture goods for export?
Answer:maquiladoras
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Category 3 : 4 Question:
What three groups most shaped the culture of the countries in the Caribbean?
Answer:Natives, Europeans,
and Africans
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Category 3 : 5 Question:
Which nations are part of NAFTA?
Answer:Canada, USA, and
Mexico
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Category 4 : 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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Category 4 : 2 Question:
Why did the Portuguese bring in Africans to Brazil?
Answer:to work on the
plantations
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Category 4 : 3 Question:
Which sector has Mexico been attempting to develop most in recent years?○ Industrial○ Agricultural○ Service
Answer:Industrial
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Category 4 : 4 Question:
Which Latin American nation has the largest territory and population?
Answer:Brazil
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Category 4 : 5 Question:
Despite Spanish domination, the Inca language survived. This language is known as what?
Answer:Quechua
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Category 5 : 1 Question:
Which native tribe originated in the Andes Mountains of Peru?
Answer:Inca
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Category 5 : 2 Question:
Brazil was colonized by what nation?
Answer:Portugal
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Category 5 : 3 Question:
Who helped influence the culture of the Caribbean that was not involved in Mexico?
Answer:Other Europeans and
Africans
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Category 5 : 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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Category 5 : 5 Question:
What term describes a government under harsh, military leadership?
Answer:Junta
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Category 6 : 1 Question:
What is the name for the southernmost tip of Latin America?
Answer:Tierra del fuego
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Category 6 : 2 Question:
Of the following, which is most likely a result of urbanization?○ Push/pull factors○ Earthquakes○ New water supplies○ Environmental
damage
Answer:Environmental
damage
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Category 6 : 3 Question:
What is the name of the theory that dictates that temperatures around the world on slowly increasing?
Answer:Global warming
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Category 6 : 4 Question:
What term describes a wide range of plants, insects, and wildlife?
Answer:biodiversity
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Category 6 : 5 Question:
In what type of government is the country being controlled by a few powerful rulers?
Answer:oligarchy
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Category 7 : 1 Question:
What is the goal of land reform?
Answer: divide land and
wealth more fairly
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Category 7 : 2 Question:
Portuguese is the official language of which Latin American country?
Answer: Brazil
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