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Panama Canal
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Climate
100
This is known as part of a region.
What is are subregions?
100
The Rio Bravo or the Rio Grande forms a border between these two countries.
What is the United States and Mexico?
100
He was the first to have the idea to build the Panama Canal in 1534.
Who is King Charles V?
100
This area has a dense stand of trees that receives a lot of rain.
What is the rain forest?
100
This is the height above sea level.
What is altitude?
200
A group of islands
What is an archipelago?
200
This is a narrow strip of land linking two larger areas of land.
What is an isthmus?
200
It was difficult to build the Panama Canal on this type of land.
What is rocky and volcanic?
200
This is known as a loss of its forest.
What is deforestation?
200
This is known as a warming of the ocean waters. The change in ocean temperature changes wind pattern.
What is El Nino?
300
This area has tropical grasslands.
What are Llanos?
300
A waterway dug across land for ships to travel through.
What is a canal?
300
This disease is carried by mosquitoes during the construction of the Panama Canal.
What is malaria?
300
A fuel made from sugarcane and gasoline.
What is gasohol?
300
This is known as a cooling of the ocean waters. The change in ocean temperature changes wind pattern.
What is La Nina?
400
These large plains are in Argentina and Uruguay.
What are Pampas?
400
This lake has Venezuela's most important oil fields.
What is Lake Maraciabo?
400
Since Spain could not build the Panama Canal, this country then tried, but soon gave up.
Who are the French?
400
These are the main natural resources of Latin America. Hint: Name 4
What are minerals, forests, land, and water
400
These 3 factors affect Latin America's climate.
What is latitude, mountains, and wind?
500
These are the 3 subregions of Latin America.
What are South America, Middle America, and the Caribbean.
500
This river in South America is 3,900 miles long.
What is the Amazon River.
500
The Panama Canal was built for this reason.
What is to shorten the trip from the Atlantic to the Pacific?
500
Silver, iron ore, gold, and copper are examples of this natural resource.
What are minerals?
500
This area has generally warm to hot temperatures because it often receives the direct rays of the sun.
What are the tropics?