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World Studies
Latin America Unit
Use Chapter 9-13 in the World Geography textbook to answer and define the following:
Chapter 9
1. Conquistador:
2. El Niño
3. Mestizo:
4. Mulatto:
5. What are the four largest cities in Latin America?
6. What effect might agricultural expansion have on the rain forest?
Chapter 10: Mexico
7. Irrigation:
8. Why do you think Mexico is a popular tourist destination?
9. How do conditions in the costal regions of Mexico influence economic activities?
10. What three cultures make up modern Mexico?
11. Who were the Aztecs?
12. What did Hernan Cortes do?
13. Hacienda:
14. Subsistence Farming:
15. Cash crops:
16. NAFTA:
17. Migrant Workers:
18. Maquiladoras:
19. What social conditions cause many Mexicans to become migrant workers?
20. How did Spanish conquest affect the Social Structure in Mexico?
21. What are some causes of Air Pollution in Mexico City?
Chapter 11 Central America
22. Guerilla:
23. Paraphrase the “Wealth and Poverty” section on p. 239-240.
24. How do the majority of people in Central America earn their living?
25. What are the main ethnic groups of Central America and where is each group concentrated?
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26. What are the main cash crops of the Caribbean Islands?
27. Why have many Caribbean Islanders migrated?
Chapter 12 Brazil
28. Why did Brazil build a new capital city in the highlands?
29. Plantations:
30. Why do many Brazilian Farmers suffer from poverty?
31. Ecotourism:
32. How has industrial growth improved the Brazilian economy?
Chapter 13 South America
33. What are the chief economic activities of Venezuela?
34. Describe the Drug Trade in Columbia:
35. How are the economies of Ecuador and Peru similar and different?
36. How do conditions in Buenow Aires demonstrate both the attractiveness and the problems of city life?
37. Use this paper and the textbook to fid at least three causes of poverty in Latin America.
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b.
c.
38. What are three effects of poverty in Latin America?
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B.
C.