What is life like in Latin America? DO THIS FIRST * In 3-5 sentences and before you learn about life in Latin America, describe what you think life in Latin America is like? *What is the difference in Hispanic and Latino? Use the internet and multiple resources to obtain this information. Include a link to 3 sources you found to support your answer. Use the US Hispanic Population Map to answer the following questions along with your internet resources. 1. What five states and territories have the greatest % of Hispanic and Latino population? Texas, new Mexico Arizona California and nevada 2. What % of the entire population according to the map is Hispanic or Latino? 18.7% 3. What is the population in raw number of Americans in 2020 that are Hispanic or Latino? 62.1mil 4. Put the top 5 states and territories in order of % of Hispanic or Latino. New Mexico, Texas California Arizona nevada 5. List the 11 states according to the map that have less than 5% Hispanic or Latino population. Maine, Minnesota, Alaska, Idaho, west Virginia, Ohio, Tennessee, North Dakota, New York, Kansas, Pennsylvania 6. What are the top ten counties in the US in Hispanic or Latino population? New Mexico, Texas, California , Arizona, Oregon , Utah, Idaho, Colorado , Kansas , Wisconsin . 7. What state has the most counties with a high Hispanic population? New Mexico 8. What state has less than 2% of almost all counties that are Hispanic or Latino population? New York 9. How many Hispanic or Latino people are in Los Angeles County, California? 50 to 80% 10. How many Hispanic and Latino people live in San Diego County, CA? 80% 11. What does the map show about the Hispanic population in the United States? Hispanic and Latino people settle in America closest to Mexico. 12. Which regions of the U.S. have the highest Hispanic populations? Places closest to mexico 13. Why do many Hispanic populations live in certain states (like California, Texas, Florida)? Because it is the closest place to where they live offering comfort like the weather in mexico 14. Where do different Hispanic ethnic groups tend to settle in the United States? Closest to where they came from. 15. Why might Cuban immigrants settle in Florida? It’s the closest place to Cuba offering hot weather like Cuba 16. Why do many Mexican immigrants settle in the Southwest? Because it offers more of their hometown without the danger of drug cartels According to the Latin America bottom 40% chart, answer the following questions. 1. What region had the largest improvement compared to overall population from 2006-2011? 2. What percent of Colombia is extremely poor? 44% 3. What percent of Brazil is extremely poor? 26% 4. What percent of Argentina is extremely poor? 12% 5. What country, according to the graph, has a middle-class population? Uruguay 6. What is the percentage of that middle class population? 2% 7. What country has the lowest extreme poor population? 6% 8. What country has the highest extreme poor population? 44% and columbia 9. What country has the highest poor population? El Savador with 50% 10. What county has the lowest poor population? 14 and uruguay 11. What is the unemployment rate in the top 60%? 4% 12. What is the % of households where a woman is the head of house in lowest 40%? 32.7% 13. What is the average number of years of education when you combine the lower 40% and 60%? 15.7 14. What do you notice about the average household size from bottom 40% to upper 60%? They are both very low.
15. How much more in hourly wages does the top 60% make over the bottom 40%? How much more money in a 40-hour work week does the upper 60% make? 3.40 16. What is the difference between poverty and extreme poverty? Poverty is being able to have even the tiniest amount of food at nights while extreme poverlt is not eating every day/night and being really sick 17. What are some causes of poverty in Latin America? Unemployment, 18. How does poverty affect access to education and healthcare? Not enough money to get healthcare or be enrolled in school 19. Why might people living in extreme poverty consider leaving their country? To rebuild their life/ start over/ more jobs 20. How does poverty contribute to crime or instability? They have nothing so they take something. 21. What are some possible solutions to reduce poverty in Latin America? Housing plans, homeless shelters, less expensive healthcare Use the resource Latin American Housing to answer the following questions: 1. What country has the largest percent of families living in poor housing? Nicaragua 2. What country has the least percent of families living in poor housing? Costa Rica 3. Where is poor housing more abundant, South America or Central America? South America 4. What percent of housing is poor in Colombia? 37% 5. What percent of housing is poor in Ecuador? 50% 6. What percent of housing is poor in Venezuela? 29% 7. What percentage of housing is poor in Nicaragua? 78% Use the GDP chart to answer the following questions: 1. What does GDP stand for, and what does it measure? Gross domestic product measure how much money a country has 2. How can GDP help us understand a country’s economy? It helps us estimate how much things will be worth like the price of living 3. What does a high GDP indicate about a country? Lots of money entrepreneurs and tourists 4. What does a low GDP suggest about living conditions? Poverty and poor housing 5. How might GDP connect to poverty levels in Latin America? GDP can determine the price of living unemployment rates and the quality of housing 6. Why might some Latin American countries have lower GDPs than the United States? Less money tourists entrepreneurs Use the Latin America Violence Map to answer the following questions. 1. What are the top 3 countries in Latin America with a poverty rate above 47%? Honduras Guatemala and Mexico 2. According to the map, which country has the highest poverty rate? Guatemala 3. According to the size of the counties, which country has the highest homicide rate per 100,000 people? Honduras 4. What countries make up the northern triangle? Honduras Guatemala and El Salvador 5. What countries have the most drug seizures according to the map (List top 4)? Columbia, Mexico, Bolivia , Paraguay Use the timeline infographic called Mexico War on Drugs Timeline to answer the following questions. Place your answers in student response. 1. How many miles I Mexico City from the closest part of the United States? 460 miles 2. What happened on June 2, 1993? Head of drug cartel escapes prison 3. What year did 2,600 people die a violent death because of drug wars 2007 4. Who is the head of the Gulf Cartel in 1996?\ Juan Garcia Abrego 5. Who was the President of Mexico in December of 1988? Carlo salinias de gortari 6. What is the source of the information on the timeline? The secret history of narco 7. What is the DEA? The drug enforcement administration 8. Who was Enrique Camarena? 9. Name one drug lord according to the timeline 10. Who is “El Chapo” and why is he important in the war on drugs 11. What agencies in the United States are responsible to addressing the war on drugs and immigration? (You will need to research and cite the resource where you got this information as it is not in the timeline)
