Cenote: Passage to the Maya Underworld

Cenotes were ___________________ for Mayas living in the Yucatan Peninsula

sacred places

the source of freshwater

places to avoid

often near cities and settlements

A "halocline" is a

layer of the water column where salty and fresh mix

the halo effect when looking up at the sun from the bottom of a cenote

the current epoch, preceded by the Pleistocene

the decent of the Maya hero twins into the underworld

The Yucatan Peninsula is

a platform of igneous rock created by ancient volcanoes

a shelf of limestone created by ancient marine organisms

a platform of sand created by ancient Mesoamericans

a chunk of land that split from Cuba a long time ago

"Karst topography" refers to geologic formations formed

by volcanic forces

by climate change

by the dissolution of soluble bedrock

by the Maya god Karst

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