1. What is a Primate City, and what is the best Latin American Example of a Primate city?

2. How is the Mayor of Mexico City reducing pollution?

3. Who were the first two European nations to colonize South America?

4. Where is most of the food in Mexico grown, and which area of Mexico has the highest population density?

5. Which Central American country has the largest fresh water lake?

6. What living creature is home to a wide variety of fish around the Antilles Islands?

7. What is the predominate religion of the people of Central America?

8. What are the main agricultural exports from South America?

9. Why is the air pollution so bad in Mexico City?

10. What are the two types of agricultural industries found in Latin America?

11. Why does disease spread so fast in the slums of Central America and the Caribbean Islands?

12. What type of landform is Panama?

13. What is the largest natural lake in Mexico?

14. Which natural disaster is Central America most prone to, due to it’s location along the Pacific Ring of Fire?

15. Why did so many independent communities develop in isolation in South America?

16. What is land subsidence and what is it’s biggest side effect?

17. Which highly caffeinated drink is a major export of South America?

18. What is one of the problems caused by intensive planting in Caribbean Islands?

19. Why are Costa Rica and Panama considered biodiversity hotspots?

20. Which vertical climate zone is most densely populated?

21. Many of the poor people living in Sao Paulo, Brazil, live on the outskirts of town with no sanitation service. These neighborhoods are called ____________.

22. How does population pressure cause migration or population decline?

23. Which country enacted a law in 2004 which prohibited deforestation in it’s eastern region?

24. What type of climate do the Caribbean and Central America have due to their location in the tropics?

25. What did early South American societies base their economy on?

26. How does El Nino affect the fishing industry?

27. Why is Patagonia so dry, batten, and windy?

28. What processes is destroying huge swaths of forest in South and Central America?

29. What are the vertical climate Zones?

30. What is causing a loss of biodiversity and the extinction of species in Central America?

31. What is the most populous city in the Southern Hemisphere?

32. Which Mexican artist is famous for painting murals?

33. What is the program which is supposed to reduce greenhouse gasses in Latin America?