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Great Race
A Stack to be Used During the Great Race Question Round
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Point to Canada on the map. | Answer |
| Point to the United States on the map. | Answer |
| Point to Mexico on the map. | Answer |
| Point to Guatemala on the map. | Answer |
| Point to Honduras on the map. | Answer |
| Point to Belize on the map. | Answer |
| Point to Nicaragua on the map. | Answer |
| Point to El Salvador on the map. | Answer |
| Point to Costa Rica on the map. | Answer |
| Point to Panama on the map. | Answer |
| Point to Jamaica on the map. | Answer |
| Point to Cuba on the map. | Answer |
| Point to Puerto Rico on the map. | Answer |
| Point to the Dominican Republic on the map. | Answer |
| Point to Haiti on the map. | Answer |
| Point to Colombia on the map. | Answer |
| Point to Venezuela on the map. | Answer |
| Point to French Guiana on the map. | Answer |
| Point to Surinam on the map. | Answer |
| Point to Guyana on the map. | Answer |
| Point to Ecuador on the map. | Answer |
| Point to Brazil on the map. | Answer |
| Point to Chile on the map. | Answer |
| Point to Argentina on the map. | Answer |
| Point to Bolivia on the map. | Answer |
| Point to Uruguay on the map. | Answer |
| Point to Paraguay on the map. | Answer |
| Point to Peru on the map. | Answer |
| What is the name of an ecosystem that is covered in snow for more than half the year and has subsoil that is always frozen? | tundra |
| What is the name of an ecosystem that is a large plain covered mostly by grass? | grasslands |
| What are the grasslands of North America called? | prairie |
| What are the grasslands of South America called? | pampa |
| What is the name of an ecosystem made up of high and steep land forms? | mountains |
| What is the name of an ecosystem that is mostly covered in trees? | forest |
| What is the name for a forest ecosystem that receives exceptionally large amounts of rainfall each year? | rainforest |
| True or False: People living in a desert would most likely farm to meet their need of food. | false |
| True or False: People living in a desert would most likely build their shelter out of trees. | false |
| True or False: People living in a tundra would need clothing that would help keep them warm. | true |
| True or False: People living in a forest would have very little would available to build shelter. | false |
| True or False: People living in a grassland would be able to farm for food. | true |
| What country in the Western Hemisphere is a communist dictatorship? | Cuba |
| What form of government does the U.S. have? | presidential democracy form of representative democracy |
| What form of government does Canada have? | parliamentary form of representative democracy |
| What are the three branches of the U.S. government? | executive, legislative, and judicial |
| What is the job of an executive branch of government? | enforce laws |
| What is the job of a legislative branch of government? | make laws |
| What is the job of a judicial branch of government? | explain or interpret laws |
| Who is the head of the executive branch of the U.S. government? | President |
| Who is the head of the legislative branch of the U.S. government? | Congress |
| Who is the head of the judicial branch of the U.S. government? | Supreme Court |
| What two house make up the U.S. Congress? | House of Representatives and Senate |
| Which form of government has one family making all the decisions and a new family takes over when the leader dies? | monarchy |
| Which form of government has one person making all the decisions including running a command economy? | communist dictatorship |
| Which form of government has three branches that divide the jobs of government and its members are chosen by the people of the country? | representative democracy |
| What word means how a civilization meets its needs and wants. | economics |
| What word means the rareness of something that adds to its value? | scarcity |
| What word means the amount of a good or service that is available? | supply |
| What word means the desire that consumers have for a specific good? | demand |
| Name the basic needs of humans. | food, water, clothing, shelter |
| What type of economy does the United States have? | mixed market capitalism |
| What type of economy does Cuba have? | command |
| Who led the expedition to the Americas in 1492 that resulted in a major turning point in the Western Hemisphere? | Christopher Columbus |
| What war served as a turning point that eventually led to most of the countries of the Western Hemisphere becoming independent of Europe? | American Revolution |
| Who is best known for conquering the Aztecs? | Hernan Cortes |
| Who is best known for conquering the Inca? | Francisco Pizarro |
| What was Christopher Columbus trying to do when he landed in the Americas? | looking for a faster route to the Indies (Asia) |
| What word means a key event or series of events that significantly changes the way of life of a group of people? | turning point |
| What was the main reason the English colonists in America fought a revolution against their own government? | taxation without representation |
| Who led the Mexican revolution against Spain? | Miguel Hidalgo |
| Which two people led the revolutions against Spain in South America? | Simon Bolivar and Jose de SanMartin |
| Who declared Brazil independent from Portugal? | Dom Pedro II |
| Which type of economy has each family providing for its own needs and wants? | traditional |
| Which type of economy has resources owned by individuals with some government regulation? | mixed market capitalism |
| Which type of economy has resources and property owned by the government? | command |
| What was the main effect of the Industrial Revolution as a turning point in the history of the Western Hemisphere? | countries with resources switched from traditional to mixed market capitalism economies |
| What was the main effect of the American Revolution as a turning point in the history of the Western Hemisphere? | European monarchies were eliminated in the Western Hemisphere and replaced largely by representative democracies. |
| Name an effect of the Columbian Exchange. | 90% of the indigenous people were killed, European countries colonized the Americas, steal weapons and tools were introduced to the Americas, some new crops were introduced to the Americas |
| What race are most of the people of Latin America? | Mestizo |
| What form of music originated on the islands of Trinidad and Tobago as a form of communication between the slaves? | Calypso |
| What form of music originated and Jamaica? | Reggae |
| What is the world's most popular sport? | soccer |
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