History

• Tourism


  The business of travel
• Visitors


  • Usually stay in island resorts or on cruise ships
• Overnight tourists


  Use a great deal of electricity and consume vast amounts of water and food, causing shortage for the local people
• Large resorts and cruise ships

  Release pollution into the air and water, which threatens marine life
• The Panama Canal


  Completed by the United States in 1855, allowing goods and people to travel across the isthmus by rail
• Challenges in building the Panama Canal


  1. Trying to keep builders healthy by eliminating mosquitoes that caused diseases

  2. Overcoming the terrain or physical land features of Panama
• Haiti


  After independence in 1804, Haiti's citizens had been slaves and did not have any money or means of income, and European nations did not support Haiti financially
• Human Development Index (HDI)


  Used by geographers to compare the quality of life in different countries
• Due to violence between political groups in Haiti


  U.S. forces were sent in 2004 to Port-au-Prince to maintain security
• In 2010


  Port-au-Prince and the surrounding area were nearly destroyed, with over 1.5 million people displaced or forced from their homes
• Pull Factors


  Draw people to a place because it offers more security and better job opportunities
• If the rainforest is altered in any way, that species may face extinction
• Amazon River Basin


  The largest river basin on earth
• Pampas


  The rich soil of the grassy plain in Argentina
• Life at Different Elevations


  • More people live in the mild climates of the plains and grasslands than live in the extreme climates of high mountains and tropical rainforests
• Amazon River


  Begins high in the Andes Mountains of Peru
• El Niño


  When the usual wind and ocean currents reverse, occurring at least once every 12 years
• Through a process called transpiration, plants and trees release water vapor into the air
• Obstacles of Panama Canal


  1. Trying to keep builders healthy by eliminating mosquitoes that caused diseases

  2. Overcoming the terrain or physical land features of Panama
• Haiti's citizens had been slaves and didn't have any money or means of income after independence in 1804, and European nations did not support Haiti financially