Jeopardy Europe / Russia AfricaSW Asia South / East Asia Australia / Oceania Q $100 Q $200 Q $300 Q $400 Q $500 Q $100 Q $200 Q $300 Q $400 Q $500 Final Jeopardy

$100 Question from Europe and Russia The conflict between the U.S. and the Soviet Union was called this because it never grew into war.

$100 Answer from Europe and Russia What is Cold War

$200 Question from Europe and Russia Some geographers refer to this as the dividing line between Europe & Asia.

$200 Answer from Europe and Russia What are the Ural Mountains?

$300 Question from Europe and Russia This sea was damaged by damming of rivers and its waters used for irrigation

$300 Answer from Europe and Russia What is the Aral Sea?

$400 Question from Europe and Russia An economy in which the communist government makes all decisions about the economy is know as

$400 Answer from Europe and Russia Command Economy

$500 Question from Europe and Russia This term is used to describe a region’s distance away from the moderating influence of the ocean

$500 Answer from Europe and Russia What is continentality

$200 Question from Africa Long, thin valleys that formed in Africa as continental plates pulled apart

$200 Answer from Africa What are rift valleys?

$100 Question from Africa The Nile River flows north primarily through Egypt and what other country?

$100 Answer from Africa What is Sudan?

$300 Question from Africa In the last couple of decades genocide in these 2 African countries made world headlines.

$300 Answer from Africa Where are Rwanda & Sudan?

$400 Question from Africa List one of several reasons for the cause of desertification

$400 Answer from Africa What are overfarming and overgrazing of livestock

$500 Question from Africa List direct results of colonialism in Africa

$500 Answer from Africa Dictatorships, Heavy debt, Civil Wars

$100 Question from SW Asia This is a place of worship for followers of Islam

$100 Answer from SW Asia What is a mosque

$200 Question from SW Asia This describes a government controlled by religious leaders

$200 Answer from SW Asia What is theocratic

$300 Question from SW Asia This group of countries control the supply and price of oil

$300 Answer from SW Asia What is OPEC?

$400 Question from SW Asia The death of this Islamic prophet led to the divisions and conflict between the Sunnis and the Shi’a.

$400 Answer from SW Asia Who is Muhammad?

$500 Question from SW Asia This term describes a resource so valuable that nations will go to war to ensure a steady supply.

$500 Answer from SW Asia What is strategic commodity

$100 Question from South / East Asia This is the religion of most of the people in India

$100 Answer from South / East Asia What is Hinduism

$200 Question from South / East Asia A system of social classes that existed in India & the Hindu religion for most of its history.

$200 Answer from South / East Asia What is the caste system?

$300 Question from South / East Asia The “founder” of Communist China

$300 Answer from South / East Asia Who is Mao Zedong?

$400 Question from South / East Asia This is not considered a basic necessity by India’s government

$400 Answer from South / East Asia What is education?

$500 Question from South / East Asia Describe 2 reasons why Indian families continue to have large numbers of children

$500 Answer from South / East Asia What are: they are a source of income, security as the parent’s age, & infant mortality is high.

$100 Question from Australia / Oceania This is the name given to the chain of volcanoes that line the Pacific Rim

$100 Answer from Australia / Oceania What is Ring of Fire

$200 Question from Australia / Oceania A ring-like island

$200 Answer from Australia / Oceania What is an atoll?

$300 Question from Australia / Oceania When Aboriginal children were placed with white families by the government in forced assimilation.

$300 Answer from Australia / Oceania What is the Stolen Generation?

$400 Question from Australia / Oceania Australia’s agricultural and sheep-raising endeavors have suffered greatly because

$400 Answer from Australia / Oceania What is overpopulation of rabbits?

$500 Question from Australia/ Oceania The U.S. got involved in the Vietnam War for the same reason it got involved in the Korean War, which was..

$500 Answer Australia / Oceania What is to prevent the communist north from taking over the south?

Final Jeopardy The terms referring to “the land was empty”, and the government could take it freely refers to

Final Jeopardy Answer What is when the British declared Australia to be Terra Nullius