ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL SYSTEMS
THE CULTURES OF MEXICO
PANAMA
HUMANS AND THE PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT
100
A professor of economics in the country of Bangladesh
Who is Muhammad Yunnus
100
Has more than 23 million people living there
What is Mexico City
100
Tropical diseases killed 25,000 workers
What are malaria and yellow fever
100
Located in Northeastern Spain
What is Barcelona
200
In the early 1970s Yunnus met a lady who made bamboo stools
Who is Sufiya Khatun
200
Poor farmers or landless peasants
What are campesinos
200
A passageway through which people travel by foot , vehicle, rail, ship , or rail
What is a transportation corridor
200
Temperature, rainfall , altitude , and latitude are factors that determine
What is natural vegetation
300
An economy that produces raw materials
What is a primary industry
300
Native Americans however, have blended many elements of their religions with
What is Christianity
300
Remains one of the greatest engineering facts of modern time
What is the Panama Canal
300
Treeless plain where only grasses and mosses grow
What is tundra
400
A king or queen rules the government
What is a monarchy
400
A factory , often near the U.S-Mexico border that assembles goods for export.
What is a maquiladora
400
In 1881, when Panama was apart of
What is Colombia
400
Permanently frozen soil located in Iceland , Norway , and Northern Russia
What is permafrost
500
A type of government in which supreme political authority rests with the people
What is a democracy
500
One worker who moved from Mexico to Oregon he found work in a fish processing plant
Who is Fermin Carillo
500
A section of waterway in which a ship is raised and lowered by adjusting the water level.
What is a lock
500
An enormous Russian forest, covering more than four million square miles
What is taiga
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