Panama Canal

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 4. A republic in northwestern South America with a coastline on the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea (8)
  2. 7. A route ___ than the usual one (8)
  3. 9. Enclosure consisting of a section of canal that can be closed to control the water level (plural) (5)
  4. 11. Not practical or realizable (11)
  5. 13. A land mass that projects well above its surroundings (plural) (9)
  6. 14. An event resulting in great loss and misfortune (plural) (9)
  7. 15. Spanish explorer who in 1513 crossed the Isthmus of Darien and became the first European to see (6)
  8. 16. A relatively narrow strip of land connecting two larger land areas (7)

Down

  1. 1. A republic on the Isthmus of ___ (6)
  2. 2. A single complete turn (10)
  3. 3. Two-winged insect whose female has a long proboscis to pierce the skin and suck the blood of humans (8)
  4. 5. A slide of a large mass of dirt and rock down a mountain or cliff (plural) (10)
  5. 6. The application of a gas or smoke to something for the purpose of disinfecting it (10)
  6. 8. A republic in Central America (9)
  7. 10. A rocky headland belonging to Chile at the southernmost tip of South America (8)
  8. 12. A location marked by an intense competition and struggle for survival (plural) (7)