Ch 2 Quiz The Middle American Realm
More than one million Puerto Ricans have migrated to ____________. Miami Mexico City California Caracas New York
Correct New York
The current population of Mexico is about ________ million. Answers: 30 45 60 90 117
Selected Answer: Correct 117
The Panama Canal was opened in ________. Answers: 1531 1825 Correct 1914 1925 2000
Selected Answer: Correct 1914
The archipelago to the northeaST of Cuba that was formerly a British dependency is called the ____________. Answers: Florida Keys Correct Bahamas North Indies Bermuda Triangle Greater Antilles
Selected Answer: Correct Bahamas
According to Figure 2-5, the majority of islands in the Lesser Antilles were colonized by the ___________. Answers: Correct British French Spanish Dutch American
Selected Answer: Correct British
Central America's oldest democratic republic, which has had no standing army since 1948, is ________________. Answers: Panama Mexico Belize Honduras Correct Costa Rica
Selected Answer: Correct Costa Rica
A well-known global biodiversity hotspot is located in ________________. Answers: Nicaragua and Panama Correct Costa Rica and Panama Jamaica and Puerto Rico El Salvador and Honduras Belize and Guatemala
Selected Answer: Correct Costa Rica and Panama
Which country is located in the Greater Antilles? Answers: Correct Cuba Nicaragua The Bahamas Honduras Mexico
Selected Answer: Correct Cuba
Which of the following does NOT lie in the Euro-Amerindian Mainland? Answers: Central America from Guatemala to Panama (except the Caribbean coastal zone) Mexico Costa Rica Correct Dominican Republic El Salvador
Selected Answer: Correct Dominican Republic
Figure 2-3 shows that Ciudad Juárez lies directly across the border from this U.S. city: Answers: Matamoros Laredo Correct El Paso San Diego McAllen
Selected Answer: Correct El Paso
Mestizos are persons who are of mixed ____________ heritage. Answers: European and African Correct European and indigenous Portuguese and Mexican Indigenous and African Aztec and Maya
Selected Answer: Correct European and indigenous
Which of the following countries is located within the culture hearth known as Mesoamerica? Answers: Puerto Rico Costa Rica Correct Guatemala Peru Panama
Selected Answer: Correct Guatemala
Which of the following Caribbean republics was influenced by French culture? Answers: Correct Haiti Jamaica French Antilles the Bahamas Cuba
Selected Answer: Correct Haiti
Which Caribbean island contains more than one state? Answers: Puerto Rico Jamaica Barbados Trinidad Correct Hispaniola
Selected Answer: Correct Hispaniola
Which of the following is INCORRECT about the idealized Spanish town in Mesoamerica? Answers: It was focused on a central plaza. It displayed a gridiron layout. It was located near good agricultural land. Correct It had several rings of suburbs. It had a centrally located church.
Selected Answer: Correct It had several rings of suburbs.
The capital of Nicaragua, located on the mountainous Pacific side of the country, is: Answers: Tegucigalpa Granada Nicaragua City Correct Managua San José
Selected Answer: Correct Managua
Middle America's largest country today in terms of both area and population is ___________. Answers: Correct Mexico Dominican Republic Cuba Nicaragua Trinidad
Selected Answer: Correct Mexico
Transculturation is most closely associated with the shaping of cultural traits in _______. Answers: Cuba Correct Mexico Panama Puerto Rico Haiti
Selected Answer: Correct Mexico
Central America's poorest country is ___________. Answers: Cuba Honduras Belize Costa Rica Correct Nicaragua
Selected Answer: Correct Nicaragua
This is the only Mexican State that does NOT share a border with another country: Answers: Sonora Campeche Chiapas Chihuahua Correct Oaxaca
Selected Answer: Correct Oaxaca
As one travels north leaving South America, the first country encountered on the Central American land bridge is ________. Answers: Costa Rica Correct Panama El Salvador Nicaragua Trinidad and Tobago
Selected Answer: Correct Panama
Which of the following statements is INCORRECT? The Aztec civilization was founded after the Maya Civilization. The ceremonial center of the Aztec civilization, named Tenochtitlan, was located in the Valley of Mexico. Maya languages are still used today in parts of Mexico. The Aztecs were conquered by the Spanish.
Selected Answer: Correct The Mayan civilization arose in the highland areas of Mexico.
A Caribbean island that is home to a large community of South Asians is _______________. Answers: Hispaniola Cuba Correct Trinidad West India Guyana
Selected Answer: Correct Trinidad
Which island is NOT one of the Greater Antilles? Answers: Hispaniola Correct Trinidad Cuba Puerto Rico Jamaica
Selected Answer: Correct Trinidad
Which of the following colonial associations is INCORRECT? Answers: Jamaica-British Aruba, Bonaire, Curaçao-Dutch Martinique-French Correct Trinidad and Tobago-United States Cuba-Spanish
Selected Answer: Correct Trinidad and Tobago-United States
Central America, as defined by geographers, is ____________: Answers: Correct a region within Middle America located between Mexico and Colombia a region that incorporates all the lands and islands between the United States and South America the regional term for the Greater Antilles the heartland of Middle America known as Mestizoamerica the region covered by Mexico, Guatemala, and Belize
Selected Answer: Correct a region within Middle America located between Mexico and Colombia
As a landform, the land bridge between Mexico and South America would be best characterized as a(n): Answers: peninsula highway Correct isthmus tunnel island
Selected Answer: Correct isthmus
Guatemala's mestizo population calls itself the _________. Answers: tierra calientes Correct ladinos contras Mesoamericanos Yucatanese
Selected Answer: Correct ladinos
The most important crop raised in Cuba before the fall of the Soviet Union was __________. Answers: maize coffee Correct sugarcane cocaine bananas
Selected Answer: Correct sugarcane
An industry whose success is a mixed blessing for the Caribbean region because it often debases local culture is _______________. Answers: offshore banking oil production online gambling Correct tourism illicit drugs
Selected Answer: Correct tourism