6th grade game on Latin America

1. Latin America
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CREATED BY : VITTORIA WALLACE

2. GAMEBOARD
COUNTRIES AND LANGUAGE AND HISTORY OF LATIN
GEOGRAPHY OF CULTURE OF LATIN AMERICA
LATIN AMERICA AMERICA
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3. Which country is NOT
included when describing
the countries of Latin
America?
• Answer 1 : MEXICO
• Answer 2 : PANAMA
• Answer 3 : SPAIN
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4. Which country is NOT
included when describing
the countries of Latin
America?
• INCORRECT – MEXICO IS A PART
OF LATIN AMERICA
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5. Which country is NOT
included when describing
the countries of Latin
America?
• INCORRECT – PANAMA IS PART
OF LATIN AMERICA
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6. Which country is NOT
included when describing
the countries of Latin
America?
• CORRECT – SPAIN IS NOT A PART
OF LATIN AMERICA, SPAIN IS IN
EUROPE
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7. What is the most common
language of Latin America?
• Answer 1 : SPANISH
• Answer 2 : PORTEGUSE
• Answer 3 : ENGLISH
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8. What is the most common
language of Latin America?
• CORRECT – SPANISH IS THE
NUMBER ONE SPOKEN
LANGUAGE OF LATIN AMERICA
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9. What is the most common
language of Latin America?
• INCORRECT – PORTUGESE IS THE
NUMBER ONE LANGUAGE OF
BRAZIL BUT NOT ALL OF LATIN
AMERICA
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10. What is the most common
language of Latin America?
• INCORRECT –ENGLISH IS NOT
THE MOST COMMONG LANGUAGE
OF LATIN AMERICA
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11. WHO WERE THE FIRST
EURPEANS TO ARRIVE IN
LATIN AMERICA?
• Answer 1 : THE FRENCH
• Answer 2 : THE SPANISH
• Answer 3 : THE ITALIAN
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12. WHO WERE THE FIRST
EURPEANS TO ARRIVE IN
LATIN AMERICA?
• INCORRECT - THERE IS MUCH
FRENCH INFLUENCE IN SOME
AREAS OF LATIN AMERICA, BUT
THEY WERE NOT THE FIRST
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13. WHO WERE THE FIRST
EURPEANS TO ARRIVE IN
LATIN AMERICA?
• CORRECT – THE SPANISH WERE
THE FIRST EUROPEANS IN LATIN
AMERICA
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14. WHO WERE THE FIRST
EURPEANS TO ARRIVE IN
LATIN AMERICA?
• INCORRECT – THE ITALIANS
WERE NOT THE FIRST
EUROPEANS IN LATIN AMERICA
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15. WHICH COUNTRY IS THE
LARGEST COUNTRY OF
LATIN AMERICA?
• Answer 1 : BRAZIL
• Answer 2 : CUBA
• Answer 3 : MEXICO
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16. WHICH COUNTRY IS THE
LARGEST COUNTRY OF
LATIN AMERICA?
• CORRECT – BRAZIL IS THE
LARGEST COUNTRY IN LATIN
AMERICA AND THE LARGEST
COUNTRY IN THE SOUTHERN
HEMISPHERE
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17. WHICH COUNTRY IS THE
LARGEST COUNTRY OF
LATIN AMERICA?
• INCORRECT – CUBA IS A SMALL
ISLAND COUNTRY AND NOT THE
LARGEST
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18. WHICH COUNTRY IS THE
LARGEST COUNTRY OF
LATIN AMERICA?
• INCORRECT – MEXICO IS LARGE
BUT NOT THE LARGEST
COUNTRY OF LATIN AMERICA
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19. WHAT COUNTRY DID THE
AZTECTS LIVE IN?
• Answer 1 - GUATEMALA
• Answer 2 - BELIZE
• Answer 3 - MEXICO
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20. WHAT COUNTRY DID THE
AZTECTS LIVE IN?
• INCORRECT – GUATEMALA IS
HOME TO THE MAYANS
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21. WHAT COUNTRY DID THE
AZTECTS LIVE IN?
• INCORRECT – BELIZE IS NOT
HOME TO THE AZTECTS
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22. WHAT COUNTRY DID THE
AZTECTS LIVE IN?
• CORRECT – THE AZTECTS LIVED
IN NOW ADAYS MEXICO
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23. WHAT RELIGION DID
EUROPEANS CONVERT
NATIVE AMERICANS TO?
• Answer 1: JUDAISM
• Answer 2 : ROMAN CATHOLOCISM
• Answer 3 : ISLAMIC
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24. WHAT RELIGION DID
EUROPEANS CONVERT
NATIVE AMERICANS TO?
• INCORRECT – THE RELIGION WAS
NOT JUDAISM
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25. WHAT RELIGION DID
EUROPEANS CONVERT
NATIVE AMERICANS TO?
• CORRECT – THEY WERE
CONVERTED TO A SECT OF
CHRISTIANITY CALLED ROMAN
CATHOLOCISIM
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26. WHAT RELIGION DID
EUROPEANS CONVERT
NATIVE AMERICANS TO?
• INCORRECT – THEY DID NOT
BECOME ISLAMIC
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27. WHAT IS AN ISTHMUS?
• Answer 1 : A narrow strip of land
with sea on either side, forming a
link between two larger areas of
land
• Answer 2 : A popular Latin
American snack
• Answer 3 : An area of fairly level
high ground
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28. WHAT IS AN ISTHMUS?
• Correct – Panama is an isthmus of
Latin America
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29. WHAT IS AN ISTHMUS?
• Incorrect – The category is
“geography” so a snack would not
be a fitting answer
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30. WHAT IS AN ISTHMUS?
• Incorrect – This is the definition
for plateau
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31. WHAT IS A
MAQUILADORA?
• Answer 1 : A LATIN AMERICAN
COMPUTER
• Answer 2 : FACTORIES NEAR THE
MEXICO / US BOARDER WHERE
MEXICAN’S OFTEN FIND WORK
• Answer 3 : A FARMER
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32. WHAT IS A
MAQUILADORA?
• INCORRECT – A MAQUILADORA
WAS A VOCABULARY WORD
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33. WHAT IS A
MAQUILADORA?
• CORRECT – MAQUILADORAS ARE
VERY COMMON IN MEXICO
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34. WHAT IS A
MAQUILADORA?
• INCORRECT – YOU MAY BE
GETTING IT CONFUSED WITH A
MIGRANT WORKER
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35. WHAT WORDS BEST
DESCRIBES Simón
Bolívar?
• Answer 1 : A MEAN & LAZY
PERSON
• Answer 2 : A QUIET & SHY
PERSON
• Answer 3 : A REBEL &
REVOLUTIONIST
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36. WHAT WORD BEST
DESCRIBES Simón
Bolívar?
• INCORRECT – HE WANTED TO
HELP THOSE WHO AROUND HIM
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37. WHAT WORD BEST
DESCRIBES Simón
Bolívar?
• INCORRECT – HE OFTEN SPOKE
OUT AGAINST THE OPPRESIVE
GOVERNMENT
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38. WHAT WORD BEST
DESCRIBES Simón
Bolívar?
• CORRECT – HE WAS A GREAT
LEADER AND IS RESPONSIBLE
FOR THE INDEPENDCE OF MANY
LATIN AMERICAN COUNTRIES
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39. WORKS CITED
• Boehm, Richard G. "Unit 3 Latin
America." Geography the World
and Its People. New York, NY:
Glencoe/McGraw Hill, 2002. 166-
73. Print
• http://www.webexhibits.org/calend
ars/calendar-mayan.html - 2008
• http://beinglatino.wordpress.com/2
010/06/03/what-is-latin-america