Corridors and Barriers

Some examples would be a road, or a river, right? You can get in your boat and float down the river to the next place. Or a canal like the Panama Canal, remember, in a previous video, we said that a canal is a man-made passageway for ships. One way to remember corridor starts with C, just like calle, so corridor calle. Is Spanish for street. So corridor is a calle, and that makes it easier to get from one place to another. On the other hand, we have transportation barriers. A transportation barrier makes it more difficult to move from place to place. That's not good, right? That means it takes goods, products that are being shipped from one place to another to people. It takes longer to get from one place to another an example is mountains. The ocean or a desert. Now you're like, get an airplane. Well, obviously modern technology has made it a little bit easier to move from place to place, but it's still not as easy to get. Across mountains as it used to, as it's as it is to get across like planes, for example. Because again, you're like getting airplanes. Well, it's harder to get on the airplane and more expensive to get on an airplane than it is to get in a car. And remember a long time ago, there weren't cars. 

There weren't airplanes, so you had yet on your horse and in your wagon and trot your little self up and down the mountain. So it would have been a whole lot more difficult to get up and over a mountain than it would just go across flat land. With the ocean, obviously, you're not swimming across it, so unless you've got a big old boat with the ocean, you aren't going to be able to get across the ocean. That was a transportation barrier. With the desert, it's hot. At night, it's actually a lot of deaths are actually really cold. So you have these extreme temperatures, and obviously we know in a desert, there's not access to water, so you're going to die if you don't get across it fairly quickly. So a big desert was just a death hazard. There's no reason for people to try and cross it. So, those are your transportation barriers. Weird but true. 

One of the world's most famous transportation corridors looks like a slug. You don't believe me hey look, here is the Red Sea topped off by the Suez Canal. Remember we said canals are corridors, man-made passageways for ships, but look, it looks like a slug. You can't unsee it now. Remember a sluggish just a snail without a shell. So there's our slug. Suez Canal and the Red Sea, one of the world's most famous transportation corridors, totally looks like a slug. That's strange but true. Thanks for joining me. See you next time.