Quiz 1 – Imaging and Creating Latin America as a Region

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

B  Has successfully resisted cultural influences from Chile

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

D  Is inhabited only by Polynesians

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

B  They are expressions of local and global process simultaneously

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

D  It represents relational geographic thinking

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  Southwestern portion of the contemporary US

B  Mexico

C  Andean South America

D  Brazil

A  the dominance of Catholicism

B  the large number of indigenous peoples in the Andean region

C  the border region between the US and Mexico

D  The shared Spanish language

A  was supported by Hugo Chavez, former president of Venezuela

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

C  has effectively eliminated the US from interfering in the region

D  was supported by the US

A  United States

B  Portugal

C  Spain

D  France

A  Possesses very few common characteristics with mainland Latin America

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

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  is always treated separately from mainland Latin America

A  It is synonymous with principles of continentality

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

C  There is physical overlap with other world regions

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

A  They tend to be constructed at various geographic scales

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

C  They tend to be subjective

D  They always have clearly demarcated boundaries

E  are “revolutionary.”