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This study guide provides an overview of the key topics and materials covered in the Semester 1 Final for the Americas course. It includes: 1. A list of 50 vocabulary words to study for a matching section. 2. Instructions to label locations like countries, seas, and islands on provided maps. 3. Short answer questions about topics like the decline of the Maya civilization, Mexico's natural resources and tourism, the Mexican Revolution, and ecotourism in Central America. 4. A true/false section covering early cultures, colonization, and present-day Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean. 5. An essay prompt about the geographic and historical significance of the Panama

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Ss Study Guide

This study guide provides an overview of the key topics and materials covered in the Semester 1 Final for the Americas course. It includes: 1. A list of 50 vocabulary words to study for a matching section. 2. Instructions to label locations like countries, seas, and islands on provided maps. 3. Short answer questions about topics like the decline of the Maya civilization, Mexico's natural resources and tourism, the Mexican Revolution, and ecotourism in Central America. 4. A true/false section covering early cultures, colonization, and present-day Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean. 5. An essay prompt about the geographic and historical significance of the Panama

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Name: Rachel Harris

The Americas Semester 1 Final Study Guide

1. Vocabulary
Study the vocabulary words from this semester. There will be a matching section on the test.

Maize – corn
Observatories – a building from which people study the sky
Causeways – a raised road across water or wet ground
Conquistadors – Spanish soldiers
Quechua – the official Inca language
Masonry – stonework
Rio Bravo – Mexico’s few major rivers
Peninsula – a piece of land surrounded on 3 sides by water
Baja California –
Gulf of Mexico – Mexico’s border
Yucatan peninsula – a part of Mexico
Sierra Madre – mother range
Empire – a land with different territories on peoples under a single ruler
Mestizos – a person of mixed European and Indian ancestry
Missions – a church outpost
Haciendas – a huge expanse of farm or ranch land in Americas
Inflation – Americas a rising prices that occurs when currency loses its buying
power
Slash – and – burn agriculture – the practice of burning forests in order to clear
land for planting
Cash crop – a crop that farmers grow mainly need to sell for profit
Mexico City – the world's 2nd largest city
Smog - I make sure I smoke chemical on fog
Maquiladoras – A U.S. or another foreign owned factory in Mexico
Isthmus - a narrow strip of land that connects to larger land areas
Caribbean Sea –

Archipelago - large group of islands


Greater Antilles – the four large islands of Cuba Jamaica Hispaniola and Puerto
Rico
Lesser Antilles – it stretches from the Virgin Islands to Trinidad and Tobago
Cloud forest – is a moist high elevation tropical forest where low clouds are
common
Ecotourism – the practice of using an area's natural environment to attract tourists
Civil war – conflict between 2:00 or more groups within a country
Panama Canal – links the Atlantic and Pacific oceans
Dialect – a regional variety of a language
Commonwealth – Is a self-governing territory associated with another country
Refugee – is someone who flees to another country
Havana – capital of Cuba
Cooperative – is an organization owned by its members an operated for their
mutual benefit

2. Map
A. be able to label the countries of Central America on a map
B. locate Mexico on a map
C. label the countries/islands/island chains in The Caribbean on a map

3. Short answer
You will be asked to answer questions about the topics below in a few sentences

Decline of the Maya civilization


Sometime after 900

The importance of natural resources to Mexico


So much of its oil to the United States
Mexico draws many tourists to the country scenic beaches
The Mexican revolution and land reform
The Mexican revolution broke out in 1910. the fighting lasted 10 years. 1 major result of the
Mexican revolution was land reform. the newly formed government to land from the large
landowners and give back to the peasant villages.
Ecotourism in Central America
Tourists come to see the country's coral reefs, Maya ruins, and coastal resorts

One crop economy in 1900s Central America

4. True or False
There will be a true or false section with questions from throughout the topics we have studied
this semester. questions will cover the early cultures (Maya, Aztec, Inca), colonization an present
day Mexico, Central American and Caribbean cultures. look over notes and in class work.

Maya - the early Meyer lived in small, isolated villages. eventually though, these villages started
trading with one another and with other groups in Mesoamerica. as trade increased the villages
grew. by about AD 200, The Maya had begun to build large cities in Mesoamerica.

Aztec –

Inca –

Colonization and present-day Mexico -


Central America and Caribbean cultures
 Colonial history has influenced culture: language, festivals and people
 All the islands show signs of colonization and slavery

5. Essay
You will be asked to write about the Panama Canal and its geographic and historical
significance. be prepared to write about the challenges faced in excavating for and constructing
the canal and how challenges were overcome. look through your Panama Canal 7 wonders off
the world video notes. the geography and history selection on pages 68 to 69 off your text will
help you prepare as well.

The Panama Canal links the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. built in the early 1900s, workers on the
canal faced tropical diseases and the dangers of blasting through solid rock. the result of their
efforts was an amazing feat of engineering. today some 13,000 to 14,000 ships pass through the
canal each year.

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