Deck 3: The Middle American Realm

Question 1

Which of the following is INCORRECT about the idealized Spanish town in Mesoamerica?

A) It was focused on a central plaza.
B) It displayed a gridiron layout.
C) It was located near good agricultural land.
D) It had several rings of suburbs.
E) It had a centrally located church.

Answer 1

D

Question 2

According to Figure 2-6,the poorest Mainland countries in 2010 were __________.

A) Mexico and Panama
B) Guatemala and El Salvador
C) Honduras and Nicaragua
D) Costa Rica and Belize
E) Haiti and the Dominican Republic

Answer 2

C

Question 3

In which altitudinal zone is coffee grown?

A) tierra caliente
B) tierra templada
C) tierra helada
D) tierra fría
E) tierra nevada

Answer 3

B

Question 4

Which of the following countries is located within the culture hearth known as Mesoamerica?

A) Puerto Rico
B) Costa Rica
C) Guatemala
D) Peru
E) Panama

Question 5

Mestizos are persons who are of mixed ____________ heritage.

A) European and African
B) European and indigenous
C) Portuguese and Mexican
D) Indigenous and African
E) Aztec and Maya

Question 6

As a group,the islands of Cuba,Hispaniola,Jamaica,and Puerto Rico constitute ___________.:

A) Middle America
B) the Rimland
C) the Hispanic Caribbean
D) the West Indies archipelago
E) the Greater Antilles

Question 7

As a landform,the land bridge between Mexico and South America would be best characterized as a(n):

A) peninsula
B) highway
C) isthmus
D) tunnel
E) island

Question 8

Middle America's largest country today in terms of both area and population is ___________.

A) Mexico
B) Dominican Republic
C) Cuba
D) Nicaragua
E) Trinidad

Question 9

The Caribbean Coast of Middle America is __________:

A) part of the Rimland
B) part of the Heartland
C) an area settled by the Dutch
D) an area settled by the French
E) dominated by haciendas

Question 10

Which of the following Caribbean republics was influenced by French culture?

A) Haiti
B) Jamaica
C) French Antilles
D) the Bahamas
E) Cuba

Question 11

Which of the following does NOT lie in the Euro-Amerindian Mainland?

A) Central America from Guatemala to Panama (except the Caribbean coastal zone)
B) Mexico
C) Costa Rica
D) Dominican Republic
E) El Salvador

Question 12

According to Figure 2-5,the majority of islands in the Lesser Antilles were colonized by the ___________.

A) British
B) French
C) Spanish
D) Dutch
E) Americans

Question 13

An industry whose success is a mixed blessing for the Caribbean region because it often debases local culture is _______________.

A) offshore banking
B) oil production
C) online gambling
D) tourism
E) illicit drugs

Question 14

A Caribbean island that is home to a large community of South Asians is _______________.

A) Hispaniola
B) Cuba
C) Trinidad
D) West India
E) Guyana

Question 15

According to Figure 2-4,which of the following would you most likely find at an elevation of 13,000 feet?

A) coffee plantations
B) potato fields
C) dairy farms
D) sheep or llamas
E) sugarcane harvesting

Question 16

Which of the following statements is INCORRECT?

A) The Mayan civilization arose in the highland areas of Mexico.
B) The Aztec civilization was founded after the Maya Civilization.
C) The ceremonial center of the Aztec civilization, named Tenochtitlan, was located in the Valley of Mexico.
D) Maya languages are still used today in parts of Mexico.
E) The Aztecs were conquered by the Spanish.

Question 17

Figure 2-3 shows that Ciudad Juárez lies directly across the border from this U.S.city:

A) Matamoros
B) Laredo
C) El Paso
D) San Diego
E) McAllen

Question 18

Which of the following colonial associations is INCORRECT?

A) Jamaica-British
B) Aruba, Bonaire, Curaçao-Dutch
C) Martinique-French
D) Trinidad and Tobago-United States
E) Cuba-Spanish

Question 19

Which country is located in the Greater Antilles?

A) Cuba
B) Nicaragua
C) The Bahamas
D) Honduras
E) Mexico

Question 20

A narrow strip of land connecting two larger land bodies is known as a(n)____________.:

A) spine
B) isthmus
C) archipelago
D) bridgeland
E) peninsula

Question 21

Which of the following countries was formerly known as British Honduras?

A) Honduras
B) Jamaica
C) Belize
D) Haiti
E) Nicaragua

Question 22

What is the predominant natural resource of Mexico's Gulf Coast Region?

A) Oil
B) Coal
C) Gas
D) Zinc
E) Iron

Question 23

This country fought a civil war from 1980 to 1992 in which 75,000 persons died.The United States supported the government,while Nicaragua supported the Marxist rebels:

A) Cuba
B) Guatemala
C) Nicaragua
D) El Salvador
E) Grenada

Question 24

Central America's oldest democratic republic,which has had no standing army since 1948,is ________________.

A) Panama
B) Mexico
C) Belize
D) Honduras
E) Costa Rica

Question 25

Guatemala's mestizo population calls itself the _________.

A) tierra calientes
B) ladinos
C) contras
D) Mesoamericanos
E) Yucatanese

Question 26

Which of the following countries does not have a common border with Guatemala?

A) El Salvador
B) Honduras
C) Belize
D) Nicaragua
E) Mexico

Question 27

Transculturation is most closely associated with the shaping of cultural traits in _______.

A) Cuba
B) Mexico
C) Panama
D) Puerto Rico
E) Haiti

Question 28

The current population of Mexico is about ________ million.

A) 30
B) 45
C) 60
D) 90
E) 117

Question 29

The Central American country that was a British colony until 1981,but where Spanish is becoming the predominant language,is ______________.

A) Jamaica
B) Guatemala
C) Nicaragua
D) Trinidad
E) Belize

Question 30

According to Figure 2-8,most of Mexico's oil deposits are located_______________.

A) in the mountainous areas
B) along the Gulf of California
C) along the Gulf of Mexico
D) along the Pacific coast
E) near the U.S. border

Question 31

Which of the following is the largest Central American country in terms of population?

A) Honduras
B) Jamaica
C) Guatemala
D) El Salvador
E) Costa Rica

Question 32

A well-known global biodiversity hotspot is located in ________________.

A) Nicaragua and Panama
B) Costa Rica and Panama
C) Jamaica and Puerto Rico
D) El Salvador and Honduras
E) Belize and Guatemala

Question 33

This is the only Mexican State that does NOT share a border with another country:

A) Sonora
B) Campeche
C) Chiapas
D) Chihuahua
E) Oaxaca

Question 34

Central America,as defined by geographers,is ____________:

A) a region within Middle America located between Mexico and Colombia
B) a region that incorporates all the lands and islands between the United States and South America
C) the regional term for the Greater Antilles
D) the heartland of Middle America known as Mestizoamerica
E) the region covered by Mexico, Guatemala, and Belize

Question 35

Central America's poorest country is ___________.

A) Cuba
B) Honduras
C) Belize
D) Costa Rica
E) Nicaragua

Question 36

The capital of Nicaragua,located on the mountainous Pacific side of the country,is:

A) Tegucigalpa
B) Granada
C) Nicaragua City
D) Managua
E) San José

Question 37

Middle America's largest city is ___________.

A) Havana
B) Caracas
C) Santo Domingo
D) Panama City
E) Mexico City

Question 38

The poorest States of Mexico are located in _____________.

A) the southern part of the country
B) the northern part of the country
C) the Yucatán Peninsula
D) Baja California
E) the Gulf Coast region

Question 39

Which Central American country does not have a Caribbean coastline?

A) Cuba
B) Guatemala
C) Mexico
D) El Salvador
E) Panama

Question 40

A maquiladora is a(n)___________:

A) owner of an ejido
B) foreign-owned factory in Mexico that assembles duty-free goods
C) person of mixed European-Amerindian ancestry
D) Mayan plantation
E) degree from a Mexican technological university

Question 41

A person of mixed European-African ancestry is known as a ____________.

A) mulatto
B) mestizo
C) Eurafroindian
D) contra
E) maquiladora

Question 42

Guadeloupe is a dependency of _________________.

A) Guatemala
B) France
C) the United Kingdom
D) the Netherlands
E) the United States

Question 43

Which Caribbean island contains more than one state?

A) Puerto Rico
B) Jamaica
C) Barbados
D) Trinidad
E) Hispaniola

Question 44

Of the following,which country does not have coastlines on BOTH the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean?

A) Guatemala
B) Costa Rica
C) Nicaragua
D) El Salvador
E) Honduras

Question 45

"Latin" America is a term that refers only to the geographic area constituted by the island and mainland portions of Middle America.

Question 46

Mexico,Nicaragua,and Panama are all located on the land bridge portion of the Middle American realm.

Question 47

The tierra templada environmental zone is situated at a higher elevation than the tierra fría zone.

Question 48

Which of the following Caribbean countries possesses major natural gas deposits?

A) the Dominican Republic
B) Cuba
C) Trinidad and Tobago
D) Martinique
E) Barbados

Question 49

The Panama Canal was opened in ________.

A) 1531
B) 1825
C) 1914
D) 1925
E) 2000

Question 50

The archipelago to the northeaST of Cuba that was formerly a British dependency is called the ____________.

A) Florida Keys
B) Bahamas
C) North Indies
D) Bermuda Triangle
E) Greater Antilles

Question 51

A narrow strip of land connecting two larger landmasses is called an isthmus.

Question 52

Mainland Middle America's tropical location and climates are ameliorated by elevation and its resulting vertical zonation of natural environments.

Question 53

Which of the following is not an independent country?

A) Jamaica
B) Haiti
C) Trinidad and Tobago
D) Puerto Rico
E) Dominican Republic

Question 54

More than one million Puerto Ricans have migrated to ____________.

A) Miami
B) Mexico City
C) California
D) Caracas
E) New York

Question 55

Which island is NOT one of the Greater Antilles?

A) Hispaniola
B) Trinidad
C) Cuba
D) Puerto Rico
E) Jamaica

Question 56

Which country is currently a large financial supporter of Cuba?

A) Mexico
B) Costa Rica
C) Panama
D) Venezuela
E) Brazil

Question 57

The large island of Trinidad is located in the Greater Antilles.

Question 58

NAFTA is a trade agreement that includes Nicaragua.

Question 59

As one travels north leaving South America,the first country encountered on the Central American land bridge is ________.

A) Costa Rica
B) Panama
C) El Salvador
D) Nicaragua
E) Trinidad and Tobago

Question 60

The most important crop raised in Cuba before the fall of the Soviet Union was __________.

A) maize
B) coffee
C) sugarcane
D) cocaine
E) bananas

Question 61

The Maya civilization is the only one on the world culture map that arose in a tropical lowland.

Question 62

Middle America contains both a Euro-Amerindian Mainland and a Euro-African Rimland.

Question 63

Overall,Central America's population exhibits higher densities in its Pacific coastlands than along its Caribbean shore.

Question 64

The Yucatán Peninsula protrudes into the Pacific Ocean.

Question 65

Communally-owned farms in Mexico are called ejidos.

Question 66

Tourism can be considered an irritant industry by many in the Caribbean Basin.

Question 67

The hacienda of the Mainland is quite similar to the plantation of the Rimland.

Question 68

Cuba has a Spanish heritage,Jamaica is British-influenced,and Haiti's strongest European imprint came from the French.

Question 69

According to Figure 2-12,the Chihuahua cartel has the greatest effect on people living near the Mexico-New Mexico border:

Question 70

Mexico contains over 70 percent of the land area of Middle America (including the islands)and over half of the realm's population.

Question 71

The Maya civilization developed in a lowland tropical environment.

Question 72

The Spanish,and their need for wood,deforested large areas of Middle America.

Question 73

Mexico's leading oil-producing zone is located along its southern Pacific coast.

Question 74

The hacienda form of land tenure was dominant in Middle America's Rimland.

Question 75

The Aztec civilization developed in a lowland environment.

Question 76

Except for the French Antilles,there is no remaining European dependency in the Caribbean.

Question 77

The Pacific coast of Nicaragua is part of Middle America's Rimland.

Question 78

During their period of colonial domination,the Spanish forced much of Mexico's Amerindian population to relocate to urban settlements.

Question 79

The Maya and Aztec civilizations both evolved within the Mesoamerican culture hearth.

Question 80

Maquiladoras are large communal farms in northern Mexico near the U.S.border.