Country Facts Assignment
Nombre ___________________________________
Período ____
Fecha ________________________
INSTRUCTIONS: Use the classroom set of country facts sheets to answer these 10 questions. You have
only this class period to finish. You must work ALONE, in your ASSIGNED SEAT, and SILENTLY.
1. Put the countries in order from MOST
POPULATED to LEAST POPULATED. In other
words, look for the countries’ population, find
the one with the biggest number, put it in the
#1 spot, and then go from there, with the
country with the lowest population, or lowest
number, at the bottom.
Highest
population
Lowest
population
4.
1.
Put the countries in order from LARGEST size
to the SMALLEST. In other words, look for the
countries’ AREA in square miles (abbreviated
as sq mi), find the one with the biggest
number, put it in the #1 spot, and then go
from there, with the country with the
smallest number of sq. mi. at the bottom.
Largest
area
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Smallest
area
20.
2. In how many countries is Roman Catholic
the main religion? __________
3. Based on the Religions section for each
country, what other religions are common
in these countries? Make a list.
5.
19.
20.
Several countries share the same type of
government. List the country or countries’
names under its type of government.
a. commonwealth of the U.S.
b. communist state
(Government, continued)
c.
constitutional democracy
d. lempira
e. quetzal
d.
constitutional democratic republic
f.
e.
democratic constitutional republic
f.
constitutional republic
g.
democratic republic
h.
córdoba oro
g. balboa
h. colón de (country name)
i.
nuevo sol
j.
boliviano
federal republic
k. bolivar
i.
parliamentary monarchy
j.
representative democracy
k.
republic
6. Several types of currency are used throughout
these Spanish-speaking countries. Write the
name of the country or countries that use
these currencies.
a. U.S. dollar
b.
euro
c.
peso (written with nationality after the
word peso)
l.
guaraní
7. Lots of other languages are spoken in
these countries. Make a list (there should
be about 24 of them).
8. There is a vast variety of exports that come from all of these countries. Fill in the chart with the countries
from where those things are exported.
Export
Aluminum
Bananas
Beverage concentrates
Cereals
Chemicals
Clothing/apparel
Citrus
Coal
Cocoa
Coffee
Copper
Cotton
Edible oils
Electricity
Electronic components
Emeralds
Equipment
Feed
Ferronickel
Fish
Fish products
Flowers
Fruit
Fuels and energy
Gold
Hydroelectricity
Iodine
Iron
Lobster
Meat
Machinery
Manufactured products
Medical products
Natural gas
Nickel
Name of country or countries from which it is exported
(Exports, continued)
Export
Name of country or countries from which it’s exported
Offshore assembly parts
Oil and oil products
Paper and pulp
Petroleum
Pharmaceuticals
Rice
Shellfish
Silver
Shrimp
Soy
Steel
Sugar
Textiles
Timber
Tobacco
Tropical wood
Tuna/Canned tuna
Vegetables
Vehicles
Wood
Zinc
9. Have you traveled to any of these Spanish-speaking countries? If so, which one(s)?
10. Out of all of the Spanish-speaking countries you HAVE NEVER VISITED, which would you like to travel to?
Why?