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Central America and the Caribbean Facts

OBJECTIVE: To use the internet to find information about countries in Central America and the Caribbean and be able to use the information to answer specific questions.

Website to Use:

Countries to research:

Antigua and Barbuda

Aruba

Bahamas

Barbados

Bermuda

Belize

British Virgin Islands

Cayman Islands

Costa Rica

Cuba

Dominica

Dominican Republic

El Salvador

Grenada

Guatemala

Haiti

Honduras

Jamaica

Nicaragua

Panama

Puerto Rico

St. Kitts-Nevis

St. Lucia

St. Vincent and the Grenadines

Trinidad and Tobago

Answer the following questions:

1. Which country has the largest area?

2. Which country has the highest population?

3. Which country has the highest infant mortality rate?

4. Which country has the lowest infant mortality rate?

5. Which country has the highest life expectancy?

6. Which country has the lowest life expectancy?

7. Which country has the highest amount of people living with AIDS?

8. Which country has the highest literacy rate?

9. Which country has the lowest literacy rate?

10. What is lowest voting age of all the countries?

11. What is the highest voting age of all the countries?

12. Which country has the highest per capita income?

13. Which country has the lowest per capita income?

14. Which country has the highest unemployment rate?

15. Which country has the lowest unemployment rate?

16. Which county has the highest amount of people below the poverty line?

17. In which country is the US dollar worth the most?

18. Which country has the most roadways?

19. What is the lowest military enrollment age?

20. Which country would you pick to live in? Why?

Country Name:

|Area: | |

|Elevation extremes: | |

|Natural resources: | |

|Natural hazards: | |

|Environment - current issues: | |

|Geography - note: | |

|Population: | |

|Age structure- percentage of 0-14 | |

|year olds: | |

|Median age-total: | |

|Infant mortality rate-total: | |

|Life expectancy at birth-total: | |

|Total fertility rate: | |

|HIV/AIDS - people living with | |

|HIV/AIDS: | |

|Ethnic groups-largest: | |

|Religions-largest: | |

|Literacy-total: | |

|Government type: | |

|Government type definition: | |

|Independence: | |

|Suffrage (age that people can | |

|vote): | |

|Executive branch (who is the leader| |

|of the government): | |

|Flag description-color the flag | |

|with the correct colors: | |

|GDP - per capita (how much the | |

|average person makes in a year): | |

|Unemployment rate: | |

|Population below poverty line: | |

|Agriculture - products: | |

|Industries: | |

|Currency: | |

|Exchange rates (how many of the | |

|currency would you need to equal | |

|one US dollar): | |

|Television broadcast stations: | |

|Airports: | |

|Airports - with paved runways: | |

|Roadways-total: | |

|Military service age: | |

|Illicit drugs: | |

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