Human Modification of the Environment
Building roads, bridges, dams, and canals are examples of people doing this to the environment.
What is modifying the environment?
This document establishes the structure, powers, and limits of a government.
What is a constitution?
A government controlled by a small, powerful group.
What is an oligarchy?
The Indigenous civilization that built Tenochtitlán where Mexico City is located today.
Who were the Aztecs?
This mountain range stretches along the western side of South America.
What are the Andes Mountains?
This waterway was constructed across Central America to connect the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
What is the Panama Canal?
These first ten amendments to the United States Constitution protect individual freedoms.
States Constitution protect individual freedoms.What is the Bill of Rights?
A government in which citizens hold political power and elect representatives.
What is a democracy?
This Aztec farming method used raised garden plots constructed in shallow lake water
What are chinampas?
This major river carries water through the world’s largest tropical rainforest.
What is the Amazon River?
This farming method creates flat steps on mountain slopes and reduces soil erosion.
What is terrace farming?
Freedom of speech, religion, assembly, and the press are examples of these.
What are individual rights?
An absolute monarch and a dictator are similar because each represents rule by this number of people.
What is one?
The Aztec construction of Tenochtitlán, including canals and causeways, influenced the development of this modern city.
What is Mexico City?
This narrow strip of land connects North America and South America.
What is the Isthmus of Panama?
Removing Amazon rainforest trees for timber, cattle ranching, and farmland causes this environmental problem.
What is deforestation?
A constitution limits government power through laws, separation of powers, and this system that allows branches to restrict one another.
What are checks and balances?
Canada has a monarch as its official head of state, but the monarch’s power is limited by laws and an elected government.
What is a constitutional monarchy?
Native peoples influenced agriculture in the United States by growing these three important crops together, sometimes called the “Three Sisters.”
What are corn, beans, and squash?
Physical geography influenced the Panama Canal’s location because Panama offered this between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
What is a narrow and relatively short land route?
Canada and the United States built dams along rivers primarily to control water and produce this type of energy.
What is hydroelectric power?
This government allows citizens to elect leaders while requiring those leaders to obey a constitution.
What is a constitutional democracy?
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What is government power?
Indigenous place names, foods, artwork, languages, and traditions demonstrate this continuing effect on contemporary societies.
What is Indigenous cultural influence?
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What are settlement, transportation, and farming?