Unit 3: Latin America Assessment Review

Among Central America’s most famous and most important cash crops are

Which country was probably most influenced by English settlers?

Many Caribbean islands are actually

Mexico’s modern government is a federal republic. Which other country has it also?

Which country has communism as its form of government?

The large, flat center of Mexico is the

The Mexican cities of Tijuana and Ciudad Juarez have many maquiladoras, or

The Central American countries are Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and

Movements beneath the surface of Central America cause

Who was Simon Bolivar?

This food, first grown in Mexico, continues to be an important part of the Mexican diet.

Mexico was a colony of

Mexico is part of a land bridge that connects North America and

The long peninsula along Mexico’s west coast is

There are many people of African descent in Brazil because

What do you call cathedrals and large public squares. What are they called in the Latin world?

Mexico has large deposits of petroleum and natural gas along the southern coast and in the

The native American empires of Latin America were the

The Mexican national holiday celebrated on September 16 is

The Pacific Ocean borders Mexico on the

The five vertical climate zones in the highlands of Latin America are determined by

What did Mayan priests develop to measure time accurately?

Immigrants from many different countries in Europe make up a large part of the population of

Mexico is bordered on the east coast by the Gulf of Mexico and the

The ancient Incas were expert

In communist Cuba, people must purchase homes directly from