6th grade- Central America & Caribbean

Question 1

How was the US finally able to overcome Colombia's resistance toward the Panama Canal project?

Accepted Answer

The US helped Panama separate from Colombia and become its own country.

Question 2

How did the Panama Canal change trade and cargo shipping?

Accepted Answer

It made it shorter bc it connected the east and west through C. America.

Question 3

The Dominican Republic and Haiti are part of which island...

Accepted Answer

Hispaniola

Question 4

There are smuggling rings that are assaulting, robbing and killing migrants on the Darien Gap.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 5

Where is the Darien Gap?

Accepted Answer

between Colombia and Panama

Question 6

Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama are countries in...

Accepted Answer

Central America

Question 7

The smaller group of islands in the Caribbean are called....

Accepted Answer

The Lesser Antilles

Question 8

Cultural perspective answers which question?

Accepted Answer

who

Question 9

Who stood in the way of the US building the Panama Canal?

Accepted Answer

Colombia

Question 10

Which country is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere?

Accepted Answer

Haiti

Question 11

What are 4 physical geography features of Central America?

Accepted Answer

blue water, rainforests, volcanoes, sandy beaches

Question 12

Moterrico and Volcan Tajamulco are locations close to each other in Guatemala. Why are their temperatures so different?

Accepted Answer

they have different elevations.

Question 13

Why do migrants from Central America and the Caribbean continue to leave their homes to come to the US?

Accepted Answer

all of the above

Question 14

Puerto Rico is a commonwealth of the United States.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 15

How many lock systems did ships have to go through in the Panama Canal?

Accepted Answer

3

Question 16

The Caribbean is part of which continent?

Accepted Answer

North America

Question 17

An Archipelago is....

Accepted Answer

a group of islands

Question 18

France first tried to complete the project but failed. Why?

Accepted Answer

landslides, rain, disease

Question 19

Which type of maps show man-made features like country & state borders, cities & capitals, roadways?

Accepted Answer

political map

Question 20

Why are migrants going through the Darien Gap?

Accepted Answer

to seek asylum in the United States

Question 21

Cuba, Jamaica, Haiti, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Bahamas, Trinidad & Tobago are countries in...

Accepted Answer

Caribbean

Question 22

The larger group of Caribbean islands is called..........

Accepted Answer

The Greater Antilles

Question 23

Spatial perspective answers which question?

Accepted Answer

where

Question 24

Which two oceans does Central America separate?

Accepted Answer

Caribbean Sea & Pacific Ocean

Question 25

Central America is an isthmus.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 26

Which is NOT an environmental danger of traveling through the Darien Gap?

Accepted Answer

paved roads

Question 27

Central America is its own continent.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 28

Central America is actually part of which continent?

Accepted Answer

North America

Question 29

A narrow strip of land that connects 2 larger landmasses and separates 2 different bodies of water.

Accepted Answer

isthmus

Question 30

What two landmasses does Central America connect?

Accepted Answer

Mexico & South America

Question 31

Why do Haitians fly to Nicaragua instead of Ecuador even though it costs more?

Accepted Answer

Both red and blue answers

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