5th grade BW Social Studies Lesson 26

Strong gates that block of portions of the canal.

• Locks

• Deforestation

• Dam

• Agriculture

The practice of farming.

• Urbanization

• Mining

• Deforestation

• Agriculture

The process of making an area into a city.

• Deforestation

• Urbanization

• Mining

• Locks

The cutting down of large groups of trees or forests.

• Agriculture

• Mining

• Deforestation

• Urbanization

A structure that is built to hold back water.

• Dam

• Agriculture

• Locks

• Urbanization

The process of digging underground to retrieve valuable resources.

• Agriculture

• Deforestation

• Mining

• Urbanization

Name one of the types of man-made changes to the environment you learned about in this lesson.

• agriculture/ mining

• deforestation

• dam building

• urbanization

The Panama Canal was not helpful and negatively impacted trade.

• True

• False

What ways do Central American and the Caribbean people react to environmental changes?

• improvement in economy

• found new places to live

• move to more cities

• All of the above

How did the Panama Canal impact the world?

• By allowing easier access for ships going to the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

• Making trade easier across the world.

• All the above

• None of the above