Mountains
Rivers
Deserts
Islands
Miscellaneous
100
Mountains are considered natural _______
What is barriers?
100
Name the four river valley civilizations
What is Mesopotamia, India, China, and Egypt?
100
The Sahara desert is located in this continent
What is Africa?
100
Islands usually lack this, causing people to rely on trade
What is natural resources?
100
This network of trade routes allowed for the exchange of goods between Asia and the Middle East
What is The Silk Road?
200
Mountains blocked China off from the rest of the world, causing them to develop this type of attitude
What is ethnocentric?
200
Rivers provide these two benefits
What is freshwater and good farmland?
200
Early Europeans lacked the knowledge and skills needed to cross the desert, making the desert a natural ______, similar to mountains
What is barrier?
200
Greece and Japan are archipelagos, which are these..
What are chain of islands?
200
The Silk Road encouraged these among different cultures (vocab word)
What is cultural diffusion?
300
The mountainous topography of Greece forced them to form these
What are city-states?
300
Name the rivers associated with the four civilizations known as "MICE"
What are Tigris and Euphrates, Indus, Yellow, and Nile?
300
True or False: Deserts and savannas over almost half of Africa
What is TRUE?
300
Japan lacked natural resources so they relied on the sea for this type of product
What is fish?
300
These seasonal winds affected India in many ways
What are monsoons?
400
The Inca's created this using mountains to allow them to farm
What is terrace farming?
400
This can be seen as a negative to living near a river, because it destroys crops.
What is flooding?
400
The Sahel Region (Northern part) of Africa has faced problems because of this issue, which is the expansion of desert land.
What is desertification?
400
This nation had excellent harbors that encouraged seafaring trade
What is Greece?
400
The Columbian Exchange was the exchange of goods between these two nations
What is Europe and the Americas?
500
Mountains can hinder this..which can help expose different cultures to each other.
What is cultural diffusion?
500
The Fertile Crescent lies between these two rivers
What are the Tigris and Euphrates?
500
This is the desert that contributed to isolating China
What is the Gobi Desert?
500
Explain how Islands affect cultural diffusion
By allowing civilizations to trade with others.
500
This defines a diaspora.
What is the forced movement of people?
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