Panama Canal
This country first tried to build the Panama Canal.
What are the French?
An identified area of land in which the population shares at least one significant Characteristic trait.
What is Region?
Made up of navigable rivers and canals in a country.
What are Waterways?
Mexico, The United States, and Canada make up this continent.
What is North America?
What is Malaria?
This many people died in the building of the Panama Canal.
What is 25,000?
An area in which the population substantially holds common beliefs concerning government and its use of power.
What is Political Region?
A black sedimentary rock formed from dead plant matter over many years due to heat and pressure.
What is Coal?
This is the national capital of the United States.
What is Washington D.C.?
White people were on this payroll as they were building the Panama Canal.
What is the Gold Roll?
It took this many years to build the Panama Canal.
What is 10 years?
Occurs when there are limited amounts of needed resources to meet the desires of people.
What is Scarcity?
A naturally occurring fossil fuel found deep in the earth, composed primarily of hydrogen and carbon. Used in many things especially cars.
What is Oil?
The river that separates the Southern border of the United States and northern border of Mexico.
What is the Rio Grande?
Injects high-pressure fluid into rock formations to extract trapped oil and gas.
What is Fracking?
This is the fastest speed (in knots) that you can go in the Panama Canal.
What is 18 knots?
Oil, gold, forests, and water are examples of this type of resource.
What is Natural Resource?
The practice of cultivating plants, raising livestock, and managing fungi to produce food, fiber, and other products for human use
What is Agriculture?
This major waterway connects the Atlantic Ocean to Lake Ontario.
What is the St. Lawrence Seaway?
This president was responsible for the creation of the Panama Canal.
Who is Teddy Roosevelt?
This is the year when the Panama Canal was given back to Panama from the United States.
What is 1999?
A narrow strip of land with sea on either side, forming a link between two larger areas of land.
What is an Isthmus?
This type of fuel can generate heat and electricity.
What is Natural Gas?
This major river branches off of the Mississippi into Montana.
What is the Missouri River?
When Fracking, this natural resource becomes tainted and unusable when drilling.
What is Water?