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 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 other illnesses came from the Old World and affected this population.
What are the indigenous tribes in Latin and South America?
The clearing of trees and transforming the 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?
Name one negative side effect of building the Darien Gap.
Answers will vary.
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?
Catholicism is the majority _______ of Latin America, South America, and the Caribbean/
What is religion?
Loss of species, water cycle changeese, soil erosion and worsened quality of life are examples of this.
What are the effects of deforestation?
This country started building the Panama Canal in 1881 but abandoned it due to technological and financial problems.
What is France?
These two European countries are responsible for colonizing most of Latin America
Who are Spain and Portugal?
Name an issue facing the Darien Gap.
Answers will vary.
Challenge: Name the countries that are involved in the Colombian Exchange.
Spain, the Americas, other European Countries.
Think back to the video we watched about cutting down trees. When the hollow trees are cut down, what are the loggers getting rid of?
What are habitats for animals?