Quiz 1 – Imaging and Creating Latin America as a Region

A  Is inhabited only by Polynesians

B  Has successfully resisted cultural influences from Chile

C  has received migrants from Bolivia and Peru to work in its tourism industry

D  retains its own laws even though it is governed by Chile

A  Focuses only on present relationships in the global economy rather than colonial or pre-colonial periods

B  It represents relational geographic thinking

C  At times views the US-Mexico border as an artificial line

D  They are expressions of local and global process simultaneously

A  It is comprised of Peru, Bolivia and Chile

B  Was significantly influenced by a wave of European migration in the early 20th century

C  has extremely close relations with the US compared with other Latin American subregions

D  Its culture is heavily influenced by the Incan Empire

A  Brazil

B  Andean South America

C  Southwestern portion of the contemporary US

D  Mexico

A  the border region between the US and Mexico

B  The shared Spanish language

C  the large number of indigenous peoples in the Andean region

D  the dominance of Catholicism

A  has effectively eliminated the US from interfering in the region

B  was supported by the US

C  attempted to separate northern South America from the southern ones, namely Argentina and Chile

D  was supported by Hugo Chavez, former president of Venezuela

A  Portugal

B  Spain

C  France

D  United States

A  when considered as part of Latin America, supports the notion of continentality as a way to demarcate world regions

B  is always treated separately from mainland Latin America

C  Is distinctively culturally from Latin America because of its significant African legacy and cultural imprint of European powers, such as France, England and Netherlnds

D  Possesses very few common characteristics with mainland Latin America

A  The Guyanas are an exception due to their cultural distinctiveness from the rest of the region

B  It is synonymous with principles of continentality

C  There is physical overlap with other world regions

D  It describes the area from Colombia to the Southern tip of South America

A  They tend to be subjective

B  are “revolutionary.”

C  They can be based on cultural, economic, or environmental attributes

D  They tend to be constructed at various geographic scales

E  They always have clearly demarcated boundaries