Vocabulary
The interaction of humans and their environment and the environment acting upon the people.
What is Human Environment Interaction?
Took 10 years to build. Located in Central America. 25,000 workers died during its contruction.
What is the Panama Canal?
The United States, Canada, and Mexico make up the continent of _____ _______?
What is North America?
Land/natural, labor, and capital make up three categories of what?
What are resources?
Wyoming is a part of the _____ _______ region.
What is Rocky Mountain?
Made up of navigable rivers, canals, and large inland bodies of water in a country
What are Waterways?
A system of water, doors, and engineerings that raises and lowers ships through the Panama Canal.
What are Locks?
This is the national capital of the United States.
What is Washington D.C.?
The science and practice of establishing, managing, using, and conserving forests, trees and associated resources.
What is forestry?
Floods, natural disasters,and diseases were reasons why this modern marvel was so hard to build.
What is the Panama Canal?
An identified area of land in which the population shares at least one significant characteristic/trait.
What is Region?
This country first tried to build the Panama Canal but failed.
What is France?
This river is the border between Mexico and Texas.
What is the Rio Grande?
Oil, gold, forests, and water are examples of this type of resource.
What is land/natural?
This city is the national capital of Canada.
What is Ottawa?
An area in which the population substantially holds common beliefs concerning government and its use of power.
What is Political Region?
The Panama Canal brings in this amount of money every year through tolls.
This is the main river in Alaska.
What is the Yukon River?
This occurs when there are limited quantities of resources to meet unlimited needs or desires.
What is scarcity?
This is a flat-bottomed boat for carrying freight, typically on canals and rivers, either under its own power or towed by another.
What is a Barge?
An area in which the population substantially shares at least one cultural characteristic.
What is Social Region?
The year the Panama Canal's construction was completed.
What is 1914?
The Yucatan Peninsula is a part of what country in North America?
What is Mexico?
The most common resource in North America.
What is coal?
This is a method for extracting oil and natural gas from deep rock formations using water, sand, and chemicals to create fractures that release the oil and gas.
What is Fracking?