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Jeopardy

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• Mr. Hausdorf (the Feast)
• Mrs. McFarlane

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Andes Mountains
This landform mainly presents a transportation
barrier for South America?

• Row 1, Col 1

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Atahualpa.
This Incan ruler was defeated by Pizarro?

• 1,2

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PEMEX.
This company controls the oil industry in
Mexico?

• 1,3

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Maya.
This civilization used a form of language called
hieroglyphics?

• 1,4

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El Nino.
This is the warm current of the western coast of
South America that affects weather patterns?

• 2,1

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Benito Juarez
He became President of Mexico in 1858 and
believed in reform?

• 2,2

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Agriculture.
This is Guatemalas primary industry?

• 2,3

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Literature.
Octavio Paz of Mexico won a Nobel Prize for his
achievement in?

• 2,4

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Tropical Zone.
Most of Latin America is within a climate region
known as?

• 3,1

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Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo.
This treaty marks the end of the Mexico-United
States conflict in 1848?

• 3,2

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Metals (silver/copper).
Peru is an important supplier of this natural
resource?

• 3,3

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Quechua.
The descendents of the Inca in Peru speak this
language?

• 3,4

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Amazon Rain Forest.
This place has been effected the greatest by
deforestation?

• 4,1

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Vincente Fox.
He was the first President of Mexico not in the
Institutional Revolutionary Party?

• 4,2

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Cities.
Most of the population growth for South America
in the past 50 years has taken place where?

• 4,3

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Maya.
This is the major ethnic group in Guatemala?

• 4,4

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To attract more people to the interior.
This is the reason for moving the capital of
Brazil to the interior of the country?

• 5,1

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Carlos Salinas de Gortari.
This President of Mexico changed the structure
of farming to give choices?

• 5,2

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Brazil.
This country brought in more slaves from Africa
than any other country in South America?

• 5,3

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In the desert or near an oasis.
Perus major cities are located in what areas?

• 5,4