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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 Brazil Uruguay Chile Peru
Costa Rica Argentina Nicaragua Mexico Columbia
Suriname Paraguay Bolivia Ecuador Belize
El Salvador Panama Guatamala Hondura 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.