Social Study Terms
Geography Landforms
Countries and Geographical Features
Physical Processes
Columbian Exchange and the Panama Canal
100
One is how we change our environment to fit our needs and the other is how we change ourselves to fit or survive the environment.
What is modification and adaptation?
100
This is a land that is surrounded by water on all sides.
What is an island?
100
These countries are islands.
What is Cuba, Bahamas, Puerto Rico, Haiti, Dominican Republic, and Jamaica.
100
These physical processes occur in Central America and the Caribbean.
What is earthquake, erosion, and hurricanes?
100
Horse, pigs, and cows were brought to this area.
What are the Americas?
200
When there is not enough of something.
What is scarcity?
200
Land that is surrounded by water on three sides.
What is a peninsula?
200
These are countries that are located in Central America.
What is Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, and Panama.
200
This process occurs through the wearing down of the earth due to water, wind, and glaciation.
What is erosion?
200
A cultural diffusion occurred due to what exchange?
What is the Columbian exchange?
300
A change in climate that causes the water in the caribbean to become warmer.
What is El Nino?
300
A group or chain of islands.
What is archipelago?
300
This is a peninsula in Mexico.
What is the Yucatan Peninsula?
300
This is a violent sudden movement of tectonic plates inside the earth.
What is an earthquake?
300
This is what happened to the economy due to the building of the Panama Canal.
What is increase?
400
The exchange of goods, services, and money with other countries.
What is trade?
400
A narrow strip of land that connects two larger bodies of land.
What is a isthmus?
400
Baja California is between these two bodies of water.
What is the Gulf of California and the Pacific Ocean?
400
This storm gathers energy when it comes into contact with warm water.
What is a hurricane?
400
This is what happened to the amount of time it took boats to travel after the building of the Panama Canal.
What is decrease?
500
When one group moves into another place using force.
What is an invasion?
500
The Caribbean is this type of landform.
What is an archipelago?
500
Name of the sea located in the Caribbean between the gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean.
What is the Caribbean Sea?
500
Destruction of property, trauma, economic slump, spread of disease, and the death of people.
What are the effects of hurricanes, erosion, and earthquakes?
500
Due to the Columbian exchange this wiped out 90% of the native population.
What is disease?
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