Geography Exam 3

Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia

Approximately 2/3 of Latin America's people live here

Why is it called "Latin America"?

An altitudinal zone found between 3k-6k ft. Where coffee is grown

"Hot Country" located up to 3k ft. Where sugarcane is grown.

"Cold Country" where wheat, maize, and apples are grown

"Frost Country" where highland grains and tubers grow and llama and alpaca graze

The first large urban casualty of climate change will be

The 3 billion year old ancient core of North America

This country has more climate types than anywhere else in the world

Land west of the Rockies, known for alternating bases and lower mountain ranges

90% of Canadians live...

Indigenous groups considered First People (not Nations) in Canada

Large estates with strong commercial orientation

One of the biggest contributors to rainforest destruction

One of the largest outside sources of income for Latin American countries

Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, and Paraguay make up:

Panama wasn't the first choice for a canal between the two continents. Which was?

The Canadian capitol

Newfoundland, Labrador, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island make up

Canada's Core:

Canada's "prairie provinces":

Vancouver and BC

An American political philosophy that the US would encourage LA democracy and press for open markets to international trade.

The war in which Mexico lost over half of its territory to the United States

Provided cheap heating oil to the United States in 2005

Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama

Exports sugarcane, gold, diamonds, rubber, coffee, soybeans, iron ore, aluminum, and bauxite

Subsistance farms usually forced onto areas of poor soil

Barrios and favelas

How our country's economic exploitation of L.A. was carried out

A change in the direction of wind in the Pacific ocean, disrupting currents and causing strange weather patterns across the world.

The giant primate megacities of Latin America

The area of Latin America

What makes the rainforest so darn RAINY?!

20% of all the world's fresh water lies within this river

Alpine meadows found in the Tierra Helada

Home to subsistence farmers and many indigenous peoples

Where the tropical plantations were/are located

Ancient civilization from around 3000CE in the Gulf of Mexico region. Famous for their heads.

Built what is now Mexico City on a lake and are the namesake of Mexico

Makers of massive ceremonial desert effigies around 2000 years ago

Andes-dwelling empire known for conquering other groups and using quipos.

The extremely civilized people who are wrongly attributed to predicting the apocalypse on a near-daily basis.

Typically, the 2nd or 3rd sons of royal/well-to-do parents in Europe who wouldn't inherit anything signifcant and wanted power

The topics of surviving Mayan writings

The bishop responsible for burning so many significant Mayan texts

Four main language groups spoken in Latin America

More likely to be negatively affected by urbanization and poor

Percentage of the Latin American population in serious poverty

The trade agreements in the Americas

Factories found close to the Mexican border that produces cheap goods and electricity (mostlyfor the United States)

The biggest customers in the L.A. tourism industry

A particularly problematic view about Latin America

In which the United States announced its intention to stop European countries from colonizing further in Latin American countries

In which the United States declared its rights to intervene in Latin American affairs to ensure US security

The longest-running war in the Americas

Where the US's interests in Colombia lie

A fuel Brazil and the United States in particular are interested in

Sources of Amazonian deforestation

When Amazon soil is excessively exposed to wetting, drying, and UV rays, it becomes bricklike _______

A problem facing many Native American groups in the Amazon

The second largest country in the world

Percentage of the US's population that lives in the Northeast

The longest border in the world (5,527 miles) runs between these two countries

Mexico, Canada, and the United States are members of this FTA

A NAFTA rule requiring half or more of the components of all manufactured goods must come from Canada, the US, or Mexico

Good things NAFTA did for Mexico

Bad things NAFTA did for Mexico

A US attempt to secure that oh-so-problematic Mexican border

Estimated number of undocumented workers in the United States

What are some of the critical resources that we share with Canada?

The one time the United States invaded Canada

What do Canada and Mexico have in common in regards to the United States?

The group that attempted to make Quebec a separate country

This river has been completely diverted from its delta and provides the water California and several Mexican towns need to survive

Who is in competition for seafloor resources in the melting north?