The Atlantic and Pacific ‘meet’ at the southernmost tip of South America, known as Cape Horn. In this region, a strong current carries water from west to east, sweeping water from the Pacific into the Atlantic. Travelling around Cape Horn is a turbulent, dangerous journey to make by ship and has claimed many lives. Prior to the building of the Panama Canal, it was the sole route by sea between the Pacific and Atlantic.
Rivers<span> : flowing fresh water. </span>Wetlands<span> : tidal flows or almost none, brackish water</span>
Increase in the surface temperature of the earth caused by heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere is know as green-house effect
The correct answer is: "Enlightenmnet ideas challenged the power structures of the Old Regime: religion and absolut monarchies, implementing new goverment principles for societies based on <u>reason</u> and popular sovereignty and not in authoritarism".
The Enlightenment philosophers, such as Locke, Monstequieu or Rosseau. introduced ideas that challenged, and ended up derrocating, the power structures of the Old Regime.They promoted reason and the scientific method over religious dogmatism and superstititions.
The main principles developed were the following: definition of bills of citizens' rights, social contract (citizens electing political representatives to create goverments through suffrage, in opposition to the prevailing absolute monarchies whose power was supposed to arise from God's will), and the division of the powers of the state in order to avoid excessive power accumulation in certain sectors, and risks of authoritarism.
