Quiz 1 – Imaging and Creating Latin America as a Region

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

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

C  Is inhabited only by Polynesians

D  Has successfully resisted cultural influences from Chile

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  Its culture is heavily influenced by the Incan Empire

B  It is comprised of Peru, Bolivia and Chile

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

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

A  Andean South America

B  Southwestern portion of the contemporary US

C  Mexico

D  Brazil

A  The shared Spanish language

B  the border region between the US and Mexico

C  the dominance of Catholicism

D  the large number of indigenous peoples in the Andean region

A  has effectively eliminated the US from interfering in the region

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

C  was supported by the US

D  was supported by Hugo Chavez, former president of Venezuela

A  Spain

B  France

C  Portugal

D  United States

A  Possesses very few common characteristics with mainland Latin America

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

A  There is physical overlap with other world regions

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

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

D  It is synonymous with principles of continentality

A  are “revolutionary.”

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  They tend to be constructed at various geographic scales