Central / South America Packet
Central/South America Map Worksheet (30 pts)
Central/South America Culture/Cuisine Worksheet (20 pts)
Name: ______
Date: ______
Class: ______
Central / South America Regional Food Project
Sign onto Blackboard. Click “For Students”. Go to the “APS online Library”. Scroll down and click on CultureGrams. Click on the “World” section. Click on South America and then North America.
1. South and Central America Map Worksheet Label the map with all of the countries (and other areas like territories and oceans).
2. There will be a quiz!!! There are no capitals, but you will be required to label a map! **HINT** There may also be some questions from the Culture/Cuisine Worksheet. **HINT**
3. South and Central America Culture/Cuisine Worksheet Using CultureGrams, you must fill in the blank with the most appropriate country.
Central America
Name: ______Date: ______Class: ______
Central / South America Culture / Cuisine Worksheet
Using the word bank below, fill in the blanks using CultureGrams as your resource.
Guyana Costa Rica Suriname El Salvador Brazil Argentina Paraguay Panama Uruguay Nicaragua Bolivia Guatamala Chile Mexico Ecuador Hondura Peru Columbia Belize Venezuela
1. As many as one hundred indigenous languages are still spoken in parts of ______. 2. ______is the most urbanized country in South America. 3. The largest Japanese community offside of Japan is in ______. 4. ______has hundreds of varieties of potatoes. 5. Manjar, made by boiling an unopened can of sweetened condenses milk for hours, is a favorite bread spread and baking ingredient. ______6. ______has one of South America’s highest adult literacy rates. 7. Known as the birthplace of the potato, ______produces more than three thousand different varieties of the vegetable. 8. A typical breakfast is gallo pinto, a mixture of rice and black beans. ______9. When inviting a guest to visit, specifying an ending time is considered in bad taste. ______10. About 90% of the world’s emeralds are thought to be contained in ______mines. 11. About 80% of ______is covered with pristine tropical rainforest. 12. People from ______relax by drinking tereré (cold herbal tea) and mate (hot herbal tea) with friends and family. 13. The people of ______traditionally have eaten more beef per capita than any other people in the world. 14. ______has two seasons: west (August‐January) and dry (February‐July). 15. Food from ______is much less spicy than that of many other Latin American countries. 16. The ______Canal, a major international trade route, provides vital foreign‐exchange earnings. 17. About two‐thirds of ______is mountainous and volcanic. 18. The great Mayan Empire flourished in present‐day ______until about AD 800. 19. ______is the largest country in Central America. 20. Most people from ______do not wear shoes inside their homes.