2/2/26, 9:36 PM Reading Quiz 8: GCU 323: Geography of Latin America (2026 Spring A)
Reading Quiz 8
Due Feb 4 at 11:59pm
Points 40
Questions 60
Available Jan 22 at 12am - Feb 4 at 11:59pm
Time Limit 120 Minutes
Attempt History
Attempt Time Score
LATEST Attempt 1 142 minutes 39.33 out of 40
Score for this quiz: 39.33 out of 40
Submitted Feb 2 at 8:35pm
This attempt took 142 minutes.
Correct answer
Question 1
0..67 pts
Only Honduras is close enough to the volcanic axis to receive fertilizing deposits of ash and lava.
northeast
east-central
south-central
southeast
northwest
north-central
west-central
southwest
Correct answer
Question 2
0..67 pts
In Central America, the Spaniards avoided the:
Pacific lowlands
river valleys
more temperate highlands
Caribbean hills and plateaus
tropical, humid Caribbean lowlands
,2/2/26, 9:36 PM Reading Quiz 8: GCU 323: Geography of Latin America (2026 Spring A)
Correct answer
Question 3
0..67 pts
In the 1840s, Britain recognized a Indian kingdom on the shores of Honduras and Nicaragua.
When the United States claimed this was an infringement of the Monroe Doctrine (1823), Britain
withdrew from the area in 1859 and acknowledged Honduran claims to its north shore region.
Guerro
Tegucigalpa
Miskito
Arawak
Antillian
Correct answer
Question 4
0..67 pts
In Honduras bananas dominated the first half of the twentieth century. Since then, coffee cultivation,
expanding with the arrival of immigrants in the 1960s, has replaced bananas as the leading
agricultural export.
Costa Rican
Guatemalan
Salvadoran
Mexican
Nicaraguan
Correct answer
Question 5
0..67 pts
Livestock raising is increasingly important in the Caribbean lowlands, often conflicting with whose
economy is supplemented with fishing, hunting, and collection of forest products.
Nicaraguan nationals
Caribbean islanders
Mexican nationals
European immigrants
indigenous people
Correct answer
, 2/2/26, 9:36 PM Reading Quiz 8: GCU 323: Geography of Latin America (2026 Spring A)
Question 6
0..67 pts
In a valley north of Tegucigalpa, 80% of the population (40,000) suffer from local water supplies polluted
with arsenic, lead, and mercury from a nearby -owned gold mine.
Russian
U.S.
Japanese
Canadian
German
Correct answer
Question 7
0..67 pts
The original cover of has been logged, but an extensive second growth of pine forests has spread
across the interior.
mahogany and cedar
teak and juniper
oak and maple
ebony and ash
magnolia and elm
Correct answer
Question 8
0..67 pts
Preservation attempts by the Honduran government include establishment of national parks and granting
ownership to lands long-occupied by , considered best able to preserve forest resources and resist
inroads of drug traffickers and oil palm growers.
coffee growers
mining companies
foreign NGOs
logging companies
indigenous people
Correct answer
Question 9
0..67 pts
Each year 80,000 Hondurans try to reach the United States, and many of these traverse a dangerous
miles overland through Guatemala and Mexico to reach the U.S. border.
Reading Quiz 8
Due Feb 4 at 11:59pm
Points 40
Questions 60
Available Jan 22 at 12am - Feb 4 at 11:59pm
Time Limit 120 Minutes
Attempt History
Attempt Time Score
LATEST Attempt 1 142 minutes 39.33 out of 40
Score for this quiz: 39.33 out of 40
Submitted Feb 2 at 8:35pm
This attempt took 142 minutes.
Correct answer
Question 1
0..67 pts
Only Honduras is close enough to the volcanic axis to receive fertilizing deposits of ash and lava.
northeast
east-central
south-central
southeast
northwest
north-central
west-central
southwest
Correct answer
Question 2
0..67 pts
In Central America, the Spaniards avoided the:
Pacific lowlands
river valleys
more temperate highlands
Caribbean hills and plateaus
tropical, humid Caribbean lowlands
,2/2/26, 9:36 PM Reading Quiz 8: GCU 323: Geography of Latin America (2026 Spring A)
Correct answer
Question 3
0..67 pts
In the 1840s, Britain recognized a Indian kingdom on the shores of Honduras and Nicaragua.
When the United States claimed this was an infringement of the Monroe Doctrine (1823), Britain
withdrew from the area in 1859 and acknowledged Honduran claims to its north shore region.
Guerro
Tegucigalpa
Miskito
Arawak
Antillian
Correct answer
Question 4
0..67 pts
In Honduras bananas dominated the first half of the twentieth century. Since then, coffee cultivation,
expanding with the arrival of immigrants in the 1960s, has replaced bananas as the leading
agricultural export.
Costa Rican
Guatemalan
Salvadoran
Mexican
Nicaraguan
Correct answer
Question 5
0..67 pts
Livestock raising is increasingly important in the Caribbean lowlands, often conflicting with whose
economy is supplemented with fishing, hunting, and collection of forest products.
Nicaraguan nationals
Caribbean islanders
Mexican nationals
European immigrants
indigenous people
Correct answer
, 2/2/26, 9:36 PM Reading Quiz 8: GCU 323: Geography of Latin America (2026 Spring A)
Question 6
0..67 pts
In a valley north of Tegucigalpa, 80% of the population (40,000) suffer from local water supplies polluted
with arsenic, lead, and mercury from a nearby -owned gold mine.
Russian
U.S.
Japanese
Canadian
German
Correct answer
Question 7
0..67 pts
The original cover of has been logged, but an extensive second growth of pine forests has spread
across the interior.
mahogany and cedar
teak and juniper
oak and maple
ebony and ash
magnolia and elm
Correct answer
Question 8
0..67 pts
Preservation attempts by the Honduran government include establishment of national parks and granting
ownership to lands long-occupied by , considered best able to preserve forest resources and resist
inroads of drug traffickers and oil palm growers.
coffee growers
mining companies
foreign NGOs
logging companies
indigenous people
Correct answer
Question 9
0..67 pts
Each year 80,000 Hondurans try to reach the United States, and many of these traverse a dangerous
miles overland through Guatemala and Mexico to reach the U.S. border.
