Exam 7: Latin America and the Caribbean

The Altiplano are the high elevation plateaus and basins that lie within even higher mountains.

Match each country with its capital. -La Paz

This is the highest mountain in the Andes.

What was "The Demographic Collapse" in Latin America?

What was the "Columbian Exchange"?

All of these are desert regions in South America except ________.

The majority of people in Latin America live in cities.

The silver mines at Potosi are now within ________.

What Latin American country was affected the most by Hurricane Mitch in late October 1998?

Match each country with its capital. -Quito

Columbus landed in October, 1492 in what is today ________.

The Treaty of Tordesillas was an agreement made by Pope Alexander VI in 1494 to divide the world between ________ and ________ along a north-south line 1100 miles west of the Cape Verde Islands.

Slave imports to Latin America from Africa totaled 20 million people during the colonial period.

All of these are shared characteristics of most Latin American countries, except ________.

On what was the first "boom" in Manaus, Brazil based?

Most Latin Americans live in small villages.

Most people in Latin America speak Spanish or ________.

Where is Lake Maracaibo located?

Who lived in "Maroon communities"?

The 1985 earthquake in ________ killed as many as 10,000 people and resulted in massive destruction in the downtown.