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    Latin America Study Guide

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    This document contains a study guide for Latin America with questions about geography, environment, history, and politics. The geography section includes questions about countries, cities, rivers, and map labeling. The environment section addresses issues like pollution, deforestation, and oil spills affecting countries in Latin America. The history section profiles conquistadors like Cortez and Pizarro and independence leaders such as Bolivar, and discusses the impacts of colonization. Politics questions cover regimes like Castro's government in Cuba and the goals of groups like the Zapatistas in Mexico.

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    This document contains a study guide for Latin America with questions about geography, environment, history, and politics. The geography section includes questions about countries, cities, rivers, and map labeling. The environment section addresses issues like pollution, deforestation, and oil spills affecting countries in Latin America. The history section profiles conquistadors like Cortez and Pizarro and independence leaders such as Bolivar, and discusses the impacts of colonization. Politics questions cover regimes like Castro's government in Cuba and the goals of groups like the Zapatistas in Mexico.

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    Name ____________________________________________

    Date____________________________

    Latin America Study Guide


    Latin America Geography
    1.What is the largest country in South America? _______________
    2. Color in Venezuela green on the map to the right.
    3. Put a box around the Panama Canal in purple
    4. Draw the Amazon River in Blue
    5. What type of pollution does Mexico City have the biggest problem with?
    _______________________________________________________
    6. What makes Mexico City have such a problem with air pollution?
    _____________________________________________________________________________________
    7. What environmental issue does Brazil have the biggest problem with? _______________________________
    8. Why is the rainforest being cut down in Brazil? (List 4 reasons)
    __________________________________________________________________________________________
    __________________________________________________________________________________________
    __________________________________________________________________________________________
    __________________________________________________________________________________________
    9. What environmental issue does Venezuela have the biggest problem with? ___________________________
    10. What are some ways oil leaks into water and onto land? __________________________________________
    __________________________________________________________________________________________
    __________________________________________________________________________________________
    11. Which two European languages are mostly spoken in Latin America? _______________________________
    12. What is the blending of European and Africans?______________ Europeans and Indigenous?__________
    13. Which language group does Spanish and Portuguese come from?

    14. Label each type of map (physical map, climate map, natural resource map, or population density map)

    Use the maps above to answer the following questions.


    15. What is the largest city in Venezuela? _________________________
    16. What resources does Venezuela have? _________________________
    17. What mountain chain is in Venezuela? _________________________
    18. How many different climate zones does Venezuela have? __________

    History of Latin America


    1. Explain the roles of Montezuma II, Hernan Cortez, Francisco Pizzaro, and Atahualpa in Latin
    American history.
    Montezuma IIHernan CortezFrancisco Pizzaro
    Atahualpa2. Why were Cortez and Pizzaro able to conquer the Incas and Aztecs fairly easily?
    ________________________________________________________________
    3. Where was the Aztec empire in Latin America? ________________________________

    Inca Empire? _____________________________

    4. Spain colonized many countries in Latin America. How is their influence still seen in these countries
    today? _______________________________________________________________
    ____________________________________________________________________
    5. What is the name of the Spanish conquerors that took Latin America from the natives?
    6. What did the Spaniards introduce to the Americas that changed how the Native Americans lived and
    how they conducted war?

    7. What three areas were most impacted from the Colombian Exchange?
    _____________________________, ________________________________,
    _____________________________
    8. Why did the African Slave trade grow in Latin America?

    9. For each of the people listed below do the following: Tell me which countries independence they
    were fighting for?, Were they successful in getting independence during their lifetime?, why/how did
    they die?
    Toussaint LOuverture:

    Country:

    Independence:

    Death:

    Countries:

    Independence:

    Death:

    Country:

    Independence:

    Death:

    Simon Bolivar:

    Miguel Hildalgo

    10. Cuban Revolution: Who took over Cuba in 1959? ____________________


    What was the United States relationship with Cuba after the Revolution? ___________________________
    What type of Government did Castro put in after he took over?
    11. Who were the Zapatistas named after?_________________________ What changes did the
    Zapatistas want? _____________________________________________________________
    How did the Zapatistas feel about NAFTA?

    Did the Zapatistas get what they wanted? What did they get?

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