Belize The Coast, Resources, Plants, & Animals

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Belize The Coast, Resources, Plants, & Animals Lesson 8 barrier reef

cay (k7 or k6) A small island of sand or coral.

Read Belize s Beautiful Coast, Belize s Natural Resources, and Plants

Study Exercises Write letters from the map. 1.

1 Belize The Coast, Resources, Plants, & Animals Lesson 8 barrier reef (berå 7 ßr r7f) A chain of coral running parallel to a coast. cay (k7 or k6) A small island of sand or coral. Pronounce these words to someone. Read Belize s Beautiful Coast, Belize s Natural Resources, and Plants and Animals of Belize (pp ). Study Exercises Write letters from the map. 1. longest barrier reef in the Western Hemisphere 2. regions visited by many tourists 3. Maya mountains are in this region Mexico 4. region with islands called cays B Belize City A Belmopan C D Guatemala Honduras 23

2 Lesson 8 Number the events in the order they happened. 5. Russian Mennonites from Canada and Mexico settled in Belize. Russian Mennonites settled in Canada and Mexico. Mennonites fled from Russia. Russian Mennonites began dairy and poultry farms in Belize. Write the letter of the correct answer. 6. Today the biggest export of Belize is a. wood. b. sugar. c. bananas. 7. Scuba divers visit the barrier reef to find a. the bright-colored fish that live there. b. the small animals that live in the shallow, warm seas. c. the colorful skeletons of the corals that have died. 8. Belize s food supply has changed a. from being imported to being grown in the country. b. from mainly fruits and vegetables to mainly dairy and poultry. c. because of poor soil conditions. d. from being plentiful to being scarce. There are five families of vertebrates. The text mentions Belizean animals from four of these families. Write one example of a Belizean animal for each family. 9. mammals 10. reptiles 11. birds Follow the directions. 12. Look up scuba in a dictionary. Scuba is an acronym a word made from the first letters of several words. Write the words whose first letters spell scuba. 24

3 Lesson Name two ways Belize s monkey park is different from a zoo. Write words from the text that could replace the italicized parts of the sentences. 14. Tourists like to visit the small islands off the coast of Belize. 15. Scuba divers visit the long chain of coral in the shallow waters off the coast of Belize. We Remember Use words from the list to complete the sentences. Belize City Britain Creoles Garífuna Yucatán Belmopan Creole English Guatemala 16. Belize moved its capital from to to get away from destructive hurricanes. 17. About a third of the people of Belize are, descendants of African slaves. 18. Black Caribs in Belize who have Caribbean Indian and African ancestors are called. 19. Belize lies on the southeastern corner of the Peninsula and is less mountainous than its neighbor to the west,. 20. Belize s official language is because the country was settled by. 21. Many Belizeans speak a mixed language called. 25

4 Honduras Land of Bananas Lesson 9 Read Honduras Land of Bananas (pp ). Study Exercises In the first blank, write a letter from the map. In the second blank, write the name. 1. second largest Central American country 2. Central America s most mountainous country 3. body of water into which Honduras s longest rivers flow 4. very little Honduran lowland along this body of water 5. Guatemala 6. El Salvador 7. Nicaragua Belize A B C D E F 26

5 Lesson 9 Underline the correct answer. 8. Two-thirds of Honduras is very low and flat, hilly and mountainous. 9. The capital of Honduras is Honduras City, Copan, Tegucigalpa. 10. Hondurans raise bananas, corn, coffee on most of the farmland. 11. Nine out of ten Hondurans are mestizos, American Indians, Garífuna. 12. The Garífuna, mestizos, Native Americans of Honduras have African ancestors. 13. Three out of every ten people in Honduras are unemployed, underemployed. Do these exercises. 14. This graph shows the Honduran unemployment and underemployment rate in Label each bar unemployment or underemployment a. b. 15. Tell why it is worse to be unemployed than to be underemployed. Complete the sentence. 16. The people of Honduras resented the banana companies because most of the from the banana plantations went to United States companies, and because the companies had a lot of power over the of Honduras. 27

6 Lesson 9 Number the leading exports of Honduras from largest to smallest. 17. coffee seafood bananas Write true or false. 18. Most Hondurans can afford to buy the right kinds of food. 19. Most Hondurans can afford good medical care. 20. Some Hondurans never learn to read. 21. Many Hondurans pick coffee all year long. 22. Fifty percent of Hondurans live in farming areas. We Remember Complete the sentences. 23. Sugar is Belize s main. 24. A small sand or coral island is a. 25. The Western Hemisphere s longest lies east of Belize. 26. Much of Belize s products and chicken come from Russian Mennonite farms. 27. divers use self-contained underwater breathing apparatus to explore the beauties of the that makes up the barrier reef. 28. The food supply in Belize was once, but now is grown mostly in. 29. One-fourth of Belize s people live in. Write the country for each capital city. 30. Belmopan 31. Guatemala City 28

7 Lessons 9, 10 Write letters from the map. 32. Caribbean Sea 33. Pacific Ocean 34. El Salvador 35. Guatemala 36. Nicaragua A C 37. Honduras 38. Mexico B D E 39. Belize F G H Quiz 2 Lesson 10 Prepare for Quiz 2 by following this checklist: Review the vocabulary words in this section. Review the We Remember sections of the lessons. Review the work you did in Lesson 9. Tell your teacher when you are ready to take the quiz. 29

History of Economic Development in Belize. Chapter 10 (concise history)

History of Economic Development in Belize Chapter 10 (concise history) Mandatory reading Thomson, P.A.B. (2004). Belize a concise history. Oxford: Macmillan Education. P. 108-115 Name some of Belize s