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| 1-1 of 1Canals flashcard sets | |||
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| # | Title | Terms | Date |
| 1 | Steamboats, Canals, and Locksby rowdyskipper | 5 terms | August 18, 2008 |
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| canals definitions | |||
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| # | Definition | Sets | |
| 1 | human-made waterways | 21 sets | |
| 2 | waterway made by people | 4 sets | |
| 3 | human-made waterways which were used to connect the storage basins to a network of ditches which brought the water to the fields. | 4 sets | |
| 4 | provide sense of equilibrium | 4 sets | |
| 5 | human made waterways | 4 sets | |
| 6 | artificial waterway for navigation, irrigation, etc. | 2 sets | |
| 7 | a human made water way | 2 sets | |
| 8 | provide the sense of equilibrium | 2 sets | |
| 9 | an artificial waterway or artificially improved river used for travel, shipping, or irrigation | 2 sets | |
| 10 | manmade waterways used to control water | 2 sets | |
| 11 | human-made waterways. | 2 sets | |
| 12 | man made ditches | 2 sets | |
| 13 | artificial waterway for navigation, irrigation | 2 sets | |
| 14 | waterways built by people | 2 sets | |
| 15 | (n. waterways built by people) | 1 set | |
| 16 | waterways linked different parts of great britain to help transportation problem | 1 set | |
| 17 | aksumites dug ____ to channel water from mountain streams into the fields. | 1 set | |
| 18 | are man-made waterways | 1 set | |
| 19 | strong competition for railroads; carried larger volume of goods; lower unit cost of transporting; resisted by states like ny and penn. | 1 set | |
| 20 | human-made water ways | 1 set | |
| 21 | waterways built to connect cities and rivers | 1 set | |
| 22 | long ditches filled with water, used to transport boats | 1 set | |
| 23 | allowed boats to go around rapids, connected lakes and rivers | 1 set | |
| 24 | robert fulton 1817 easier and faster to transport goods and people | 1 set | |
| 25 | man made waterways used to control water. | 1 set | |
| 26 | elevated waterways that boats could pass through that were over land | 1 set | |
| 27 | built to allow easier movementof goods | 1 set | |
| 28 | directed water from basins to the fields | 1 set | |
| 29 | a waterway that is built by people | 1 set | |
| 30 | way to control flooding and water crops | 1 set | |
| 31 | to try to control floods, people built these | 1 set | |
| 32 | human- made waterways | 1 set | |
| 33 | peter planted vegetables that never grew because he dug..... | 1 set | |
| 34 | human made water ways | 1 set | |
| 35 | built to carry axcess water back to the river during emergencies | 1 set | |
| 36 | long narrow water ways | 1 set | |
| 37 | artificial channels for water; used for transport-sig: great way for transport during ind. rev; cheaer and faster than roads | 1 set | |
| 38 | human-made waterways,a network of ditches which brought the water to the fields. | 1 set | |
| 39 | what had to be cleaned regularly? | 1 set | |
| 40 | what was built to solve the problem of unloading and reloading boats across land | 1 set | |