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1 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

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

3 Intro 100 Movement

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

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

6 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

7 Intro 300 dictatorship

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

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

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

11 Intro 500 Secondary

12 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

13 Latin America 100 isthmus

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

15 Latin America 200 The Lesser Antilles

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

17 Latin America 300 maquiladoras

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

19 Latin America 400 tourism

20 What are TWO cash crops grown in Latin American countries?

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

22 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

23 Africa100 Desertification

24 What African country leads the continent in oil production?

25 Africa 200 Nigeria

26 During what decade did MOST African countries gain independence?

27 Africa 300 The 1960s

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

29 Africa 400 Civil Wars

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

31 Africa 500 Mineral Resources

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

33 Middle East 100 Zionists

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

35 Middle East 200 Islam

36 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

37 Middle East 300 Mecca and Medina

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

39 Middle East 400 Shi’ite and Sunni

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

41 Middle East 500 The Taliban

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

43 Asia100 cyclones

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

45 Asia 200 The Nationalists

46 Asia 300 Capital city of India

47 Asia 300 New Delhi

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

49 Asia 400 India

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

51 Asia 500 DMZ, 38th


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