Question | Answer |
Central America | is smaller than Texas but has 7 countries |
Central America is located | between Mexico and South America |
highlands | low mountains |
lava | melted rock from a volcano |
earthquake | the ground shakes and often cracks open |
Central America cash crops | coffee, bananas, sugarcane, and cotton |
Nicaragua | largest country in Central America |
Lake Nicaragua | is Nicaragua's largest lake and is the ONLY fresh water lake where sharks live in the world |
Dictator | full power over the country's laws, control money, and land |
civil war | people of the same country fight against each other |
Communist | a government that controls all businesses |
inflation | food and goods become more and more expensive to buy |
Costa Rica's cash crops are | bananas, coffee, and tourism |
Costa Rica is very | peaceful and is a democracy |
Costa Rica has | the highest standard of living in all the countries of Central America |
isthmus | narrow piece of land that is between two large bodies of water |
Panama | joins Central America with South America |
Mayans | built great cities in Central America more than 2,000 years ago |
Panama Canal | connects the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean, giving ships an important water way |
In 1999, Panama took | control of the Panama Canal from the United States |