Intro To Geog Latin America Africa Middle East Asia 100 100 100 100 100 200 200 200 200 200 300 300 300 300 300 400 400 400 400 400 500 500 500 500 500

Intro 100 The Five Themes of Geography include: Location, Place, Region, Human-Environmental Interaction AND

Intro 100 Movement

Intro 200 Climate change is occurring largely due to which of the Five Themes of Geography?

What is Human-Environmental Interaction Intro 200 What is Human-Environmental Interaction

Type of government in which an individual or group holds total power Intro 300 Type of government in which an individual or group holds total power

Intro 300 dictatorship

Intro 400 In this type of economic system, supply and demand determine the price of goods and there is minimal interference by the government

Capitalism or a “Market Economy” Intro 400 Capitalism or a “Market Economy”

A manufacturing job would be what type of economic activity? Intro 500 A manufacturing job would be what type of economic activity?

Intro 500 Secondary

A narrow strip of land that connects two larger bodies of land Latin America 100 A narrow strip of land that connects two larger bodies of land

Latin America 100 isthmus

Latin America 200 The group of smaller islands that stretch in an arc toward South America

Latin America 200 The Lesser Antilles

Latin America 300 Factories clustered along the U.S./Mexico border that assemble goods for export

Latin America 300 maquiladoras

Latin America 400 Sometimes called the “smokeless industry” this provides a major source of income for many Caribbean countries

Latin America 400 tourism

What are TWO cash crops grown in Latin American countries?

Bananas, cocoa, sugar, coffee Latin America 500 Bananas, cocoa, sugar, coffee

The loss of vegetation in an area following a drought is called Africa100 The loss of vegetation in an area following a drought is called

Africa100 Desertification

What African country leads the continent in oil production?

Africa 200 Nigeria

During what decade did MOST African countries gain independence?

Africa 300 The 1960s

Africa 400 Africa’s refugee population has risen over the course of decades as a result of

Africa 400 Civil Wars

Africa 500 Type of resource that is key to Central African countries like the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Africa 500 Mineral Resources

Middle East 100 Jews who believed the solution to oppression was the creation of their own country

Middle East 100 Zionists

Shari’ah law calls for a strict interpretation of Middle East 200 Shari’ah law calls for a strict interpretation of

Middle East 200 Islam

Saudi Arabia is home to Islam’s two holiest cities of Middle East 300 Saudi Arabia is home to Islam’s two holiest cities of

Middle East 300 Mecca and Medina

The two dominant factions of Islam Middle East 400 The two dominant factions of Islam

Middle East 400 Shi’ite and Sunni

Middle East 500 The Taliban is a fundamentalist government that came to power in what country during the 1990s?

Middle East 500 The Taliban

Hurricanes that strike in the Indian Ocean are called Asia 100 Hurricanes that strike in the Indian Ocean are called

Asia100 cyclones

Asia 200 The Communists took control of China after a power struggle with this group

Asia 200 The Nationalists

Asia 300 Capital city of India

Asia 300 New Delhi

Asia 400 Country in which reincarnation and the caste system are part of its society’s belief system

Asia 400 India

Asia 500 Name for the “weapons free zone” that separates North and South Korea is called the ________ and located at the ____ parallel.

Asia 500 DMZ, 38th