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What enables ships to travel faster through the Americas?

What enables ships to travel faster through the Americas?. Panama Canal (Central America). Connects the Pacific and the Atlantic U.S. completed project and opened in 1914 Around 14,000 ships pass through yearly Locks are used to raise and lower water levels Total length is 48 miles.

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What enables ships to travel faster through the Americas?

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  1. What enables ships to travel faster through the Americas?

  2. Panama Canal (Central America) • Connects the Pacific and the Atlantic • U.S. completed project and opened in 1914 • Around 14,000 ships pass through yearly • Locks are used to raise and lower water levels • Total length is 48 miles

  3. Is this adapting or modifying the environment?

  4. Another look at the locks

  5. About 20% of the Earth’s fresh water enters the oceans from what?

  6. The Amazon River • Covers 30 percent of South America • Discharges around 11,000,000 cubic feet per second during rainy season • Mouth is around 110 miles wide

  7. What Latin American country’s government employs 80% of its workers and pays them around $20 a month

  8. Cuba • Communist/Command economy and dictatorship • President is Raul Castro (Fidel’s brother) • Free education, health care, housing, transportation, and basic foods • No freedom of speech or press/can go to prison for speaking out

  9. Fidel and Raul

  10. Which of these pictures represents a developing country?

  11. 2 types of agriculture • Subsistence • Small scale • Produce food for family And survival • Commercial • Large scale • Modern farming techniques • Make a profit

  12. What type of landform is this? What would be the main economic activity?

  13. Pampas of South America

  14. There is also a Pampa, Tx

  15. Is this adapting or modifying? What is this? Slash and burn farming

  16. Native (Indigenous) Groups of Latin America • Mayas: Mexico and Central America/calendar • Aztecs: Mexico/gold/conquered by Spanish (Cortes) • Incas: Andes Mts. Of South America

  17. Where would you find this pyramid?

  18. Pyramid of the Sun Built in 2 B. C. Found in Teotihuacan, Mexico 700 feet at base and 215 feet high 268 steps

  19. Frida Kahlo, El camion (The Bus)

  20. The Incas of South America did this

  21. Famous Mexican Artist • Known for self portraits • Was injured in a bus accident 1925 • Married to Diego Rivera

  22. What U. S. heavy metal band can now say they have played on every continent?

  23. What South American country did Metallica ride a helicopter from to get to Antarctica? • Argentina

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