8-1 Central America Physical GeographyVersion en ligne
GHW.9.2 Identify and describe ways in which humans have used technology to modify the physical
environment in order to settle areas in different world regions, and evaluate the impact of
these technologies on the physical and human environments affected. (E)
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A skinny strip of land that bridges Columbia to Central America, named _____ .
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Belize City is the main economic city, as well as the biggest city, but after a hurricane damaged the place, a new capital was built inland, called _____
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Being east of Mexico, & on the east coast of Central America, many people call Belize the doorway that connects Central America and the _____ .
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A _____ _____ is a place with lots of different animals and plants, and Central America is one such place.
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Central America's mountain climate is affected mostly by the three to six thousand feet of _____ , which makes the mountains feel like an April day in the United States.
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Central American countries are all very similar, because they all have active volcanoes, diverse animals, pretty beaches, and _____ .
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The Quetzal is the national bird of _____ .
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Central America is struck by many _____ , because it is flanked on two sides by large bodies of water; some attacks kill thousands of people and cost billions of dollars.
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Central America is a skinny piece of land surrounded by water, which makes it a(n) ______ .
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The _____ _____ connects the Caribbean Sea to the Lake Nicaragua.
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The combination of earthquakes and volcano rock in Guatemala, means their cities are vulnerable to _____ .
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The _____ mountains travel right through Central America, joining the _____ mountains in South America with the _____ mountains in North America.
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_____ _____ is in Guatemala and it provides a lot of money for the country, since so many tourist visit the place.
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Lake _____ is full of man-eating predators, because it was once a part of the larger sea, before tectonic plate activity and erupting volcanoes separated it from the larger body of water.
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A main feature of Central America is that the land is very _____ , and this high altitude really affects the temperature and moisture in the area.
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The United States built the _____ _____ in order to move cargo & people from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean, and now most of the money in Panama comes from its use.
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Four massive tectonic plates meet in the area of Central America, and they crash together and cause lava and _____ .
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The only place on earth where you can see both a _____ and a _____ on the ocean... ...is in Panama.
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The Sierra Madre de _____ run from southern Mexico and through Guatemala, el Salvador, and Honduras. Sierra Madre de [same] is the largest range and rises to a maximum height of 13,850 feet.
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Central America's east coast is hot and receives a lot of rain, otherwise known as a _____ _____ climate, which is why there is so much vegetation there.
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Only Australia has a larger barrier reef than Belize, but Australia doesn't have the _____ _____ _____ , which is a deep, round sinkhole where scuba divers go to see fish.
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The west end of Central America is good for agriculture, because the _____ _____ allows the locals to plant anything.
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The _____ in the mountains of Central America is like a springtime that never ends.
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The doorway between Central America & the Caribbean is _____ .
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