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title: Canals: Suez, Panama and the shortcuts — the lesson's questions with trees and pragmatics · Geography
description: The 15 test and exam questions of lesson 20 «Canals: Suez, Panama and the shortcuts» of the geography course of Mova's primary school, each with its options, Mova's choice and the right answer, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Canals: Suez, Panama and the shortcuts

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The 15 questions of lesson 20 «Canals: Suez, Panama and the shortcuts» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with their options, 78 sentences, every one parsed by Mova with its syntax tree and pragmatics. How the student did on them: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/geography/20-canals-suez-panama-and-the-shortcuts/).

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- [t1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/20-canals-suez-panama-and-the-shortcuts/t1/) — In Europa Universalis 5 you can never sail through Suez. Is that a mistake in the game? — right ✓ · ★★★
- [t2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/20-canals-suez-panama-and-the-shortcuts/t2/) — «one boat gets stuck and the whole world freaks out?? lol» Which is the best answer? — wrong ✗ · ★★★
- [t3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/20-canals-suez-panama-and-the-shortcuts/t3/) — Mia says canals are «a modern thing, like from the 1900s». What would you tell her? — wrong ✗ · ★★★
- [t4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/20-canals-suez-panama-and-the-shortcuts/t4/) — «why's panama got locks and suez hasn't, that's dumb» Which is the best answer? — right ✓ · ★★★
- [t5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/20-canals-suez-panama-and-the-shortcuts/t5/) — What would happen if the Panama Canal's lake ran low in a long drought? — wrong ✗ · ★★★
- [t6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/20-canals-suez-panama-and-the-shortcuts/t6/) — Why were canals cheaper than roads for moving heavy coal? — wrong ✗ · ★★★
- [t7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/20-canals-suez-panama-and-the-shortcuts/t7/) — «what did the yanks learn from the french failing in panama» Which is the best answer? — wrong ✗ · ★★★
- [t8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/20-canals-suez-panama-and-the-shortcuts/t8/) — Which long voyage did the Canal du Midi help ships avoid? — wrong ✗ · ★★★
- [t9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/20-canals-suez-panama-and-the-shortcuts/t9/) — Why did the Suez Canal make Egypt so important to Britain? — wrong ✗ · ★★★
- [t10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/20-canals-suez-panama-and-the-shortcuts/t10/) — «erie canal, so what, it's just a ditch» Which is the best answer? — right ✓ · ★★★
- [t11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/20-canals-suez-panama-and-the-shortcuts/t11/) — A ship climbs 26 metres in the Panama locks to Gatun Lake. What must happen before it reaches the Pacific? — wrong ✗ · ★★★
- [e1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/20-canals-suez-panama-and-the-shortcuts/e1/) — Identify the principal function of a lock upon a canal. — wrong ✗ · exam
- [e2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/20-canals-suez-panama-and-the-shortcuts/e2/) — Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the Suez Canal? — right ✓ · exam
- [e3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/20-canals-suez-panama-and-the-shortcuts/e3/) — Ascertain the principal reason for which the French attempt of the 1880s to construct a canal across Panama was abandoned. — right ✓ · exam
- [e4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/20-canals-suez-panama-and-the-shortcuts/e4/) — Given that each transit of the Panama Canal consumes approximately two hundred million litres of fresh water, determine the consequence of a severe drought such as that of 2023. — right ✓ · exam

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