CH.5 The Caribbean Geo Facts

What is the Caribbean economy based on?

Who influenced the Caribbeans?

How many countries in the Caribbeans?

Which region has greater cultural diversity? Caribbeans or Latin America?

Which body of water links the region

Name the islands in the Greater Antilles

Which land mases make up the Lesser Antilles?

Which countries make up the Rimland

The coastal zone of mainland, from Belize to the
Guianas is known as?

The major economic activity found in the
Caribbean today is

Countries in the Caribbean make most of their
money from off-shore banking through local taxes..right??
True False

What countries make up "Hispaniola"

What are the seasons dependent upon in the Caribbean?

How many hurricanes tend to move through the Caribbean each year?

Which hurricane killed at least 10,000 and left like 2.5 million homeless in the 20th century?

What concept is used to explain the Caribbean's unusual and contradictory position in the world?

What characteristics about the Caribbean are brought about by its Isolated Proximity?

What environmental problem did the entrance of the Europeans into the region cause?

Which region is less threatened by deforestation that supports wildlife and is protected by conservational efforts

What local environmental problems do the Caribbeans have?

How much of Haiti's population has access to clean water?

Where is 87% of the Caribbean's population concentrated?

How fast is the region growing?

What disease in the Caribbean has an infection rate more than 3 times that of North America?

Does the Caribbean have a high Rate of Natural Increase?

What is the term for the economic flight of Caribbean peoples across the globe?

What caused the Rural-to-Urban migration in the Caribbean since the 60s?

What are some characteristics of housing in Cuba?

Designates a cultural region extending from midway up coast of Brazil through the Guianas and the Caribbean into southeastern U.S.

What is production of a single commodity (such as sugar) called?

What is the name for workers contracted for a set period of time?

What was the result of colonial governments freeing slaves by mid 19th century

Where are the largest Asian populations in the Caribbean?

This forced removal of Africans from their native area happened in the 16th century

How many Africans were relocated during the slave trade?

What are Maroon Societies?

Did any Maroon societies survive and what was their impact?

Do African religions remain in the Caribbean?

What is the blending of African, European, and Amerindian cultural elements into a unique system

What is the highest spoken language in the Caribbean?

What are some influential sounds in the Caribbean? (music)

What proclaimed that U.S. would not tolerate European military involvement in Western Hemisphere

What U.S. action forced Cuba to cede Guantanamo
Bay to the U.S.

US control over Caribbean through imposition of will and military force is typically characterized as...

Do Puerto Ricans seek to secede from the U.S.

Are at least most Caribbean countries independent today?

Which trade block was established for the Caribbeans?

What was major commodity during the slave trade era in the Caribbeans?

What commodity today dominates much of Caribbean trade?

What are duty-free and tax-exempt industrial parks made to attract foreign corporations called

What is the new industry in the region?

What is so attracting of the Caribbean's offshore banking?

What is the serious problem involving huge gap between gross receipts and total tourist dollars thatremain in Caribbean (money flowing out of the country into other country's companies)

What happens to a nation when a large percentage of the best-educated people leave the region (happening to the Caribbeans)

What are Remittances?