Panama Canal
The canal was built to be a short-cut between the Atlantic Ocean and this ocean.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
Expresses opinions about public issues and public individuals.
What is a political cartoon?
Loggers taking trees illegally and migrants burning forest to make the pasture for cattle are examples of this.
What are two issues facing the Darien Gap?
The exchange of plants, animals, crops, slaves, and diseases between two hemispheres.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
Materials like minerals, forests water, and fertile land that occurs naturally
What are natural resources?
This country started building the Panama Canal in 1881 but abandoned it due to technological and financial problems.
What is France?
Political Cartoons are based off of this type of event.
What is a current event?
These tools help indigenous peoples and conservationists see where their land is and help use natural resources more sustainably.
What are maps? What are drones?
Peanuts, potatoes, hot peppers, tomatoes, chocolate, pumpkin, turkey, and corn.
What were the foods that were unknown to Europe before 1492?
Building, clothes, fuel, water, and food are examples of uses for this item.
What are natural resources?
This American president pushed Congress for the money and support to build the Panama Canal.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
This is the first step of reading a political cartoon.
What is identifying the images and what it could represent?
The Darien Gap contains dense forest and is home to indigenous trees and exotic wildlife.
What are the unique characteristics of the Darien Gap?
Diseases like smallpox, measles, influenza, and types came from the Old World and affected this population.
What are the indigenous tribes in Latin and South America?
The cleaning of trees and transforming forest into cleared land.
What is deforestation?
Two themes of geography that connect to the Panama Canal.
What are Movement and Human Environment Interaction?
This is the second step of reading a political cartoon.
What is reading any text on the political cartoon?
This is a hostile entry to a territory.
What is a land incursion?
The exchange left this impact on the modern world.
What is the diversification of foods and increase in trade?
Cutting down this type of tree gives us this type of oil and fuel.
What are palm trees?
American construction on the Panama Canal began in 1906 and ended in this year.
What is 1914?
This is the third step of reading a political cartoon.
What is identifying any action that is taking place in the image?
Roadways will help the economy, businesses, and development along the route.
What is a pro of building the rest of the highway through the Darien Gap?
Colombia, Spain, The Americas.
What are the countries involved in the Columbian Exchange?
Loss of species, water cycle changeese, soil erosion and worsened quality of life are examples of this.
What are the effects of deforestation?