WORLD REGIONAL GEOGRAPHY EXAM
SCRIPT PRACTICE QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT SOLUTIONS
●● What is Middle America made up of?
Answer: Central America, Mexico and all the islands (ends at Panama
border)
●● What is Central America made up of?
Answer: 7 countries between Mexico and South America
●● What is Latin America made up of?
Answer: Informal border (part in US and down to Panama)
●● Middle+ South America have a combined population of what?
Answer: 600 million (76% urban; "Rimland" {islands/coast- 2/3 of
South America} or "Highland" {mainland}
●● Mexico has a dynamic ____ and ___ in the North with the US. They
are relatively ___ from the rest of the hemisphere.
Answer: borderland, transition zone, isolated
,●● ____ established new based in Northern Mexico. ___ and __ are the
competition
Answer: Colombian drug cartels, Los Zetas, Sinaloa Cartel
●● The Drug Wars are fought over ___, ___, and ___.
Answer: Entry points, processing, and transport routes
●● There has been a recent shift of ___ trafficking from Mexico to
Carribbean
Answer: cocaine
●● Major Geographic qualities of Middle America (5)
Answer: fragmented (physically and politically), barrier between oceans,
multicultural, developing (poor), Massive Mexico
●● A narrow isthmian link between two large landmasses. They are
temporary features-- at least when measured in geologic time-- subject
to appearnance and disappearance as the land or sea level rises and falls.
Answer: Land Bridge
●● A set of island grouped closely together, usually elongated into a
chain
Answer: Archipelago
, ●● Middle America fronts two ___ on both the Atlantic Ocean and
Pacific Ocean.
Answer: seasonal hurricane regions
●● Middle America is culturally diverse with ___ from the Caribbean
and __ on the mainland
Answer: African/European, Spanish/indigenous
●● Heartland, source area, or innovation center; place of origin of a
major culture
Answer: Culture Hearth
●● Began in tropical lowland (Yucatan Pen), zenith 3rd to 10th
centuries, but many dialects still around today
Answer: Lowland Maya
●● Began 700 years ago near Mexico City (Tenochtitlan> 100,000),
subjugators, and better borrowers than inventors.
Answer: Highland Aztecs
●● Place of contact with Early European explorers, slavery and
plantation economy, African cultural influences still strong
Answer: Caribbean
SCRIPT PRACTICE QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT SOLUTIONS
●● What is Middle America made up of?
Answer: Central America, Mexico and all the islands (ends at Panama
border)
●● What is Central America made up of?
Answer: 7 countries between Mexico and South America
●● What is Latin America made up of?
Answer: Informal border (part in US and down to Panama)
●● Middle+ South America have a combined population of what?
Answer: 600 million (76% urban; "Rimland" {islands/coast- 2/3 of
South America} or "Highland" {mainland}
●● Mexico has a dynamic ____ and ___ in the North with the US. They
are relatively ___ from the rest of the hemisphere.
Answer: borderland, transition zone, isolated
,●● ____ established new based in Northern Mexico. ___ and __ are the
competition
Answer: Colombian drug cartels, Los Zetas, Sinaloa Cartel
●● The Drug Wars are fought over ___, ___, and ___.
Answer: Entry points, processing, and transport routes
●● There has been a recent shift of ___ trafficking from Mexico to
Carribbean
Answer: cocaine
●● Major Geographic qualities of Middle America (5)
Answer: fragmented (physically and politically), barrier between oceans,
multicultural, developing (poor), Massive Mexico
●● A narrow isthmian link between two large landmasses. They are
temporary features-- at least when measured in geologic time-- subject
to appearnance and disappearance as the land or sea level rises and falls.
Answer: Land Bridge
●● A set of island grouped closely together, usually elongated into a
chain
Answer: Archipelago
, ●● Middle America fronts two ___ on both the Atlantic Ocean and
Pacific Ocean.
Answer: seasonal hurricane regions
●● Middle America is culturally diverse with ___ from the Caribbean
and __ on the mainland
Answer: African/European, Spanish/indigenous
●● Heartland, source area, or innovation center; place of origin of a
major culture
Answer: Culture Hearth
●● Began in tropical lowland (Yucatan Pen), zenith 3rd to 10th
centuries, but many dialects still around today
Answer: Lowland Maya
●● Began 700 years ago near Mexico City (Tenochtitlan> 100,000),
subjugators, and better borrowers than inventors.
Answer: Highland Aztecs
●● Place of contact with Early European explorers, slavery and
plantation economy, African cultural influences still strong
Answer: Caribbean
