Vocabulary
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Rainforest
Panama Canal
Govt n Stuff
100
The center of a city, gathering place
What is plaza
100
This Latin American Country has the most resources
What is Brazil
100
Brazil's greatest resource is
What is the Amazon rainforest
100
Human made waterway linking Atlantic and Pacific Oceans
What is the Panama Canal
100
These two areas make up Middle America
What is the Caribbean and South America
200
Land bridge connecting 2 larger areas of land
What is isthmus
200
The economy of the Caribbean islands depend on this greatly to survive
What is tourism
200
deforestation
What is negative thing happening to rainforest area
200
Latin America's waterways provide transportation and what __?
What is food
200
Mexico's president can serve how long?
What is 1 - 6 year term
300
To send out, often for money or other supplies(trade)
What is export
300
Many island nations face political and economic challenges due to what?
What is great poverty
300
where you will find most biodiversity in world
What is Amazon Rainforest
300
The US helped Panama win its freedom from Columbia
What is why Panama gave US permission to build canal
300
Who named himself "president for life"
What is Fidel Castro
400
Money owed by the government
What is national debt
400
These farms provide food resources to families
What is subsistence farms
400
The trees being cut down here will deplete what
What is oxygen level - all other resources
400
They acted as the bully when building the Panama Canal
What is the United States
400
This brings more citizens that are productive to society
What is higher literacy rate
500
natural made secure system for canals
What is a lock
500
Migrant workers flee to the US for this resource
What is jobs and income
500
A positive of the rainforest
What is medicines/species
500
BONUS Question: This disease wiped out many of the workers building the canal
What is yellow fever
500
The government is much like our how
What is they are a federal republic and elect their officials
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