The Great Connector
The Atlantic and Pacific oceans are connected by this engineering marvel.
What is the PANAMA CANAL?
What are the Andes Mountains
This "atmospheric scrubber" provides our planet with 20 percent of the air we breathe.
What is the Amazon Rainforest?
MOST people choose to live in these areas due to more jobs and opportunity.
What are urban areas?
Oil spills, air pollution, and deforestation are all issues that this South American country is facing.
What is Venezuela?
This system of allowed ships to travel through the canal regardless of the differing sea levels.
What is the lock system?
This mountain range is home to many tall peaks and active volcanoes.
What are the Sierra Madre Mountains?
This river is the second longest river and runs from the Andes mountains through Brazil.
Venezuela and Mexico produce large amounts of this natural resource.
What is oil?
This country is currently the leading producer of coffee.
What is Brazil?
Central America is considered to be this type of landform.
What is an isthmus
This half of the Sierra Madres faces the EASTERN side of Mexico, toward the ATLANTIC ocean.
What is the Sierra Madre Oriental?
Reduced soil fertilization, mudslides, and loss of habitat are all associated with this environmental issue.
What is deforestation?
What is location, climate and natural resources?
The primary trading partners of Cuba
Who are China and Venezuela?
Ships traveling from New York to San Francisco would have to travel around this continent prior to the Panama Canal.
What is South America?
All of the harmful chemicals from factories and cars in Mexico City are trapped in between the two Sierra Madre ranges causing this environmental issue.
What is air pollution?
The Amazon Rainforest covers most of this country.
What is Brazil?
Brazil has this kind of climate
What is tropical?
The two ways that the Caribbean islands were formed.
What is volcanic activity and buildup of sand/coral?
A byproduct of the panama canal.
(Why was the Panama Canal so important?)
What is faster and efficient travel?
This half of the Sierra Madres border the WESTERN side of Mexico, facing the PACIFIC ocean
What is Sierra Madre Occidental
This reason is the PRIMARY reason for deforestation in the amazon.
These two countries are the only LANDLOCKED countries in South America.
What is Bolivia and Paraguay
This term refers to any raw material or agricultural product that is bought and sold.
What is a commodity?