Latin America Exam: Key Questions and Study Guide

[06] Lesson 6 & 7 Exam - Results Attempt 1 of 2 Written Dec 1, 2023 12:33 AM - Dec 1, 2023 1:17 AM Attempt Score 100 / 100 - 100 % Overall Grade (Highest Attempt) 100 / 100 - 100 % Question 1 2.5 / 2.5 points In the sixteenth century, half the world's silver was produced in mines at Potosi, now located in what country? Question options: Chile Bolivia Uruguay Ecuador Question 2 2.5 / 2.5 points The 2010 earthquake in ________ killed more than 300,000 people, displaced 1 million residents, and destroyed buildings and infrastructure in its capital city of Port-au-Prince. Question options: Mexico

Haiti Brazil Venezuela Question 3 2.5 / 2.5 points Which of the following is NOT a widely spoken indigenous language in Latin America? Question options: Guaraní Quechua Creole Mayan Question 4 2.5 / 2.5 points What is the 2014 population of Latin America? Question options: 189 million 350 million 500 million 588 million Question 5 2.5 / 2.5 points When did fair trade concerns begin to influence the coffee economy? Question options: 1960s 1970s 1980s

1990s Question 6 2.5 / 2.5 points What is the dominant religious orientation in Latin America? Question options: Roman Catholicism Protestantism Islam Indigenous religions Question 7 2.5 / 2.5 points Manaus is a port on what water body? Question options: the Caribbean Sea the Amazon River the Pacific Ocean the Orinoco River Question 8 2.5 / 2.5 points The Amazon basin makes up about two thirds of: Question options: Mexico. Argentina. Brazil. Venezuela. Question 9 2.5 / 2.5 points

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Which of these Latin American artist's paintings are known around the world? Question options: Mario Vargas Llosa Derek Walcott Frida Kahlo Gabriel Garcia Marquez Question 10 2.5 / 2.5 points What term is used to define money that is sent back to Latin America and the Caribbean from people working temporarily or permanently in other countries? Question options: Braceros Cankerous Work fund Remittances Question 11 2.5 / 2.5 points In 1804, former slaves declared independence from what colonial country to form Haiti? Question options: Spain Portugal France Great Britain Question 12 2.5 / 2.5 points

What Latin American country has promoted a "myth of racial democracy"? Question options: Mexico Brazil Chile Argentina Question 13 2.5 / 2.5 points Which indigenous Empire developed the chinampa agricultural system? Question options: Maya Inca Aztec Zapotec Question 14 2.5 / 2.5 points In Latin America, which of these is NOT an example of a syncretic religious practice? Question options: Candomble Gaelic Voodoo

Santeria Question 15 2.5 / 2.5 points __________ is the main cause of deforestation in the Amazon. Question options: Logging Large scale agriculture Cattle ranching Mining Question 16 2.5 / 2.5 points Governments in Latin America demonstrate a bias in favor of ________ areas by providing more services and investments to these specific areas. Question options: urban rural coastal export-producing Question 17 2.5 / 2.5 points El Niño is a periodic warming of sea-surface temperatures in the tropical Pacific off the coast of what country? Question options: Venezuela Mexico Ecuador Peru

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Question 18 2.5 / 2.5 points Where is Lake Maracaibo located? Question options: Venezuela Mexico Bolivia Brazil Question 19 2.5 / 2.5 points What trade agreement increased the growth of maquiladoras ? Question options: MERCOSUR CAFTA NAFTA CARICOM Question 20 2.5 / 2.5 points What indigenous social movement organized land occupation and won titles for 350,000 people in Brazil? Question options: Rural Landless Workers Movement (MST) Ejercito Zapatista de Liberación Nacional (EZLN)

Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities (CONAI) Federación de los Pobres (FLP) Question 21 2.5 / 2.5 points The concept of karma is associated with which world religion? Question options: Hinduism Islam Buddhism Christianity Question 22 2.5 / 2.5 points Which South Asian empire embraced Buddhism? Question options: Mauryan Gupta Mughal British Question 23 2.5 / 2.5 points The subhumid parts of East Asia are prone to: Question options: stream erosion.

flooding. earthquakes. stream erosion, flooding, earthquakes Question 24 2.5 / 2.5 points When does the wet monsoon season begin in South Asia? Question options: May July September June Question 25 2.5 / 2.5 points Which South Asian Empire produced the decimal system, Sanskrit, and Hindu art? Question options: Harappan Aryan Mauryan Gupta Question 26 2.5 / 2.5 points Which dynasty provided stability for the Silk Road to link China to Central Asia, India, Rome, and Byzantium? Question options: Han Shang

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Qin Ming Question 27 2.5 / 2.5 points Which South Asian country experienced intensified flooding in 2010 due to the engineering of the floodplain through levees and embankments? Question options: India Pakistan Afghanistan Bangladesh Question 28 2.5 / 2.5 points A variety of the cotton modified to resist pests without the use pesticides is: Question options: Bt cotton. Pl cotton. Pt cotton. Bl cotton. Question 29 2.5 / 2.5 points Which colonizing power forced the opium trade on China in the 19th Century? Question options: Great Britain Japan America

France Question 30 2.5 / 2.5 points The ________ in East Asia is humid and subtropical. Question options: Northern Regime Southern Regime Western Regime Eastern Regime Question 31 2.5 / 2.5 points Which of the following describes or described China's Special Administrative Regions? Question options: Land communes under Mao's economic policy Free trade zones in the 1990s The autonomy of Macao and Hong Kong under China Low wage textile manufacturing districts Question 32 2.5 / 2.5 points The Himalayas were formed by geological uplift from the Indian Plate moving into the: Question options: Australian Plate Arabian Plate Eurasian Plate Pacific Plate

Question 33 2.5 / 2.5 points What city is the first slated to be a "solar city" with 10% renewable energy? Question options: Mumbai New Delhi Agra Bangalore Question 34 2.5 / 2.5 points Which political leader led the 1911 revolution in China against the Qing dynasty? Question options: Mao Zedong Chiang Kai-shek Kim Il Sung Sun Yat-Sen Question 35 2.5 / 2.5 points __________ has the second fastest growing economy in the world. Question options: Sri Lanka Bhutan Pakistan India Question 36 2.5 / 2.5 points What Japanese belief system is based on the sacred powers in every existing thing?

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Question options: Daoism Confucianism Shinto Animism Question 37 2.5 / 2.5 points Northwestern China and much of _________ is a territory of temperate desert. Question options: the Tibetan Plateau Mongolia the Japanese Archipelago Manchuria Question 38 2.5 / 2.5 points How thick is the Asian Brown Cloud? Question options: 1 mile 2 miles 3 miles 4 miles Question 39 2.5 / 2.5 points Pakistan was established as a: Question options: Muslim country.

Hindu country. Buddhist country. country with no predominant religion. Question 40 2.5 / 2.5 points What desert dominates the topography of Mongolia? Question options: Sahara Gobi Huang He Loess Done

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