Klien Chapter 21 and 19 Test Jeopardy
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- I am in Lake Titicaca, which means I am on the border of these 2 countries.
- Bolivia and Peru
- I am in this major Latin American country, the only one whose capital city is not one of its 2 largest cities.
- Brazil
- The largest mountain in Latin America is located in this country.
- Argentina
- Cuba and Puerto Rico share a common culture and history with this other Greater Antilles
- Dominican Republic
- The original inhabitants of the Caribbean Islands; they were effectively eliminated within 50 years of the Spanish conquest.
- Tainos
- The ruthless conquistador that stole the Incan wealth and ended their empire.
- Francisco Pizarro
- The name of the rugged, raised, flat physical feature that is home to Mexico's biggest city
- Mexican Plateau
- I am in the only South American country with coastline on both the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean.
- Colombia
- This nation has the largest oil reserves of any country in the Western Hemisphere
- Venezuela
- Formerly the "Paris of the Caribbean
- Havana
- The 5 modern-day countries that once made up the United States of Central America.
- El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, Costa Rica, and Nicaragua
- The only Dutch speaking country in South America
- Suriname
- Prior to the epic slave uprising in Haiti, the French gained immeasurable wealth from the land by harvesting this crop.
- sugar (cane)
- The international trade agreement that Mexico entered into with the U.S. and Canada in 1992.
- NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement
- Grassland and dry forests are characteristics of this northern South American physical feature.
- llanos
- People of mixed European and Indian descent
- mestizos
- This nation is the only one in the region with no coastline on the Caribbean, and has been unable to recover from its civil war because it has been severely damaged by earthquakes and hurricanes.
- El Salvador
- The northwestern-most island in the Greater Antilles
- Cuba
- The strength of Costa Rica's economy, the term that refers to attracting visitors through natural beauty.
- ecotourism
- Mexico is the world's leader in the production of this mineral
- silver
- The only non-Spanish speaking nation in Central America.
- Belize
- In terms of elevation, no capital city on earth is higher than this one (city & country needed).
- La Paz, Bolivia
- The major religion of Haiti, this faith is a combination of Catholicism and African tribal practices.
- voodoo
- The mighty and vicious Aztecs created their capital here
- Tenochtitlan
- I am in this capital city, on the western half of the island of Hispaniola
- Port-au-Prince
- I am with the gauchos in the Pampas, but I am not in Argentina; instead, I am in this country.
- Uruguay
- The poorest Central American nation.
- Nicaragua
- The 2 landlocked South American nations.
- Paraguay and Bolivia
- Before being conquered by the Toltecs, these Native Americans ruled large parts of southern Mexico for thousands of years.
- Mayans
- Factories of American-owned companies that lie along the U.S.-Mexico border
- maquiladoras
- The communist rulers of Nicaragua in the 1980s that U.S. helped overthrow in favor of democracy.
- Sandinistas