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2nd Semester Test
7th Grade History
Question | Answer |
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"The land of the shaking earth" | Mexico |
"Where Central American farmers grow corn and beans for their families" | subsistence farms |
"Highest mountains in the Western Hemisphere" | Aconcagua |
Incan city discovered in 1911. | Macchu Picchu |
Landform in Mexico. | Yucatan Peninsula |
Large island that is located 90 miles south of Florida. | Cuba |
Capital of Argentina | Buenos Aires |
A kind of banana grown in Peru | plantain |
Type of factories found in Mexico's border cities. | Maquiladores |
Major industry of the Caribbean islands. | tourism |
Country that declared independence from Portugal in 1822. | Brazil |
Lies in the rain shadow of the Andes | Atacama Desert |
U.S. citizens from an American Commonwealth country. | Puerto Ricans |
This country has no army | Costa Rica |
Type of government in all Central American countries. | democracy |
Second-largest Latin American country in total area. | Argentina |
The religion of most people in Central America. | Roman Catholics |
One of the Greater Antilles. | Jamaica |
Area that was a British colony from the 1600s to the late 1900s. | Belize |
Citizens of Buenos Aires. | portenos |
In terms of land area, Brazil is the world's ________. | Fifth-largest country |
Cape Horn is South America's ______. | Southermost point |
The country of Mexico is threatened by ______. | volcanic eruptions, hurricanes, earthquakes |
Cuba has government based on the principles of _________. | communism |
The southern tip of Argentina stretches almost to ___________. | Anarctica |
Which country is more than 2,600 miles long but averages only 110 miles wide? | Chile |
Early Mexican civilization included the _____. | Aztec, Olmec, and Maya |
The United States gave control of the Panama Canal to Panama in _________. | 1999 |
The British, Dutch, and French had colonies in ________. | the Guianas |
After independences, Columbia became part of ______. | New Granada |
The growth of border cities in Mexico have done all of the following except_______. | lead to safer jobs for workers |
The mountains that run through six South American countries are the ____________. | Andes |
The South American country whose name in Spanish means "land of abundances" is ______. | Peru |
Which of the following is NOT a coastal resort in Mexico? | Guadalajara |
A mestizo is a person of mixed_________. | Native America and Spanish hertiage |
Which South American country uses the euro as its currency? | French Guiana |
Which of the following islands are in the Caribbean Sea? | Hispaniola |
The river that forms much of Mexico's northern border ______. | Rio Grande |
The central plains where two-thirds of Argentina's people live are _______. | The pampas |
Who led the Spanish army that landed in Mexico in 1519? | Hernan Cortes |