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Fun Facts About the Caribbean
Fun Facts About the Caribbean
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Dominant languages in the Caribbeans are: ________, ________, _________, ________ ________, ____________.
Spanish, English, Dutch, Haitian Creole and Portuguese
Portuguese, Hindi, Bengali, Russian, Spanish
Spanish, English, Dutch, Haitian Creole and Papiamento
Spanish, English, Dutch, Haitian Creole and Bengali
2
Who discovered the Caribbean Islands?
Leif Erikson
Christopher Columbus
Jacques Cartier
3
Parts of all four of the Pirates of the Caribbean were shot in the Caribbean.
False
True
4
Dependent on the United States: _________, United States Virgin Islands
Cayman Islands
Puerto Rico
Martinique
Aruba
5
The Caribbean island of Saba is the home of the shortest runway in the world, measuring in at just __________ feet.
1,000
1,200
500
1,300
6
__________ was the scene of the very first James Bond film
Barbados
Colombia
Haiti
Jamaica
7
The Caribbean Sea is one of the largest seas and has an
area
of about _________
square kilometers
754,000
2,754,000
2,200,000
800,000
8
The _________ gets more visitors than any other Caribbean island, attracting around 4.3 million people every year.
Haiti
Dominican Republic
Colombia
Cuba
9
To commemorate this first landing by Christopher Columbus, there is a simple white cross on Long Bay Beach in _________.
Bimini, coral reef
Atlantis
Port Lucaya, The Bahamas
San Salvador, The Bahamas.
10
George Washington famously only visited one foreign country, and it was _________.
Cuba
Jamaica
Colombia
Barbados
11
The first land in the Caribbean region Columbus saw & visited on _____,he named San Salvador Island- part of The Bahamas
12 October 1492
12 November 1492
16 October 1490
14 October 1492
12
_______ holds the Guinness World Record for most churches per square mile, with a total of 1,600 on the island.
Antigua
Cuba
Haiti
Jamaica
13
The Caribbean region is what's called an _________?
archipelago
Pirates of the Caribbean
islets
aceipelago
14
Dependent on France: Guadeloupe, Martinique, Saint Barthelemy (St Barts), _________
Puerto Rico
Saint Martin
Bonaire
Curaçao
15
______ – Greater Antilles islands list: Cuba, the Cayman Islands, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica and Puerto Rico
The Lucayan Archipelago
The Lesser Antilles
the Windward Islands
The Greater Antilles
16
_______________– Countries are the Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos islands.
The Lucayan Archipelago
he Leeward Islands
The Greater Antilles
The Lesser Antilles
17
The Caribbean region is made up of around _____ islands, islets, reefs and caves
700
500
600
550
18
Only around ___ of the islands in the Caribbean are actually inhabited by people
1%
5%
2%
0.5%
19
These islands were called the ‘Indies’ and Columbus called their inhabitants ‘Indians’.
False
True
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About 75% of the population of the Caribbean is contained within the three islands of ________, _________, __________.
Cuba, Jamaica, and Haiti
Cuba, Guadeloupe, and Haiti
Cuba, the Dominican Republic and Haiti.
Cuba, the Dominican Republic and Barbados.