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What is the main religion in Central Asia?
Islam
community of plants and animals
Ecosystem
All romance languages are based on
Latin
The longest day and the shortest day of the year
Solstice
Colonized Mexico in 1519
Spain
government where the people decide who will govern
Democracy
Title of a religious leader of the highest authority, who is a Shia Muslim in Iran.
Ayatollah Khameni
process where the Earth's atmosphere traps heat energy
greenhouse effect
Common currency in Europe
euro
Time zones are based on various degrees of
Longitude
Ottawa
Secular
Non-religious
2 most important resources in all the Middle East
Oil and Water or Sand
An area of grassland with scattered trees and shurbs
Savanna
Having many foreign influences
Cosmopolitan
The two days of the year on which neither hemisphere is tilted toward or away from the sun
Equinox
US state is the least populated
Alaska
People who are forced to migrate from their home country and cannot return
Refugees
2 problems that limit the freshwater supply in places like Israel.
Droughts and Pollution.
Lowest point in the US at 282ft. below sea level
Death Valley
90% of France's population are
Catholic
What lines on a globe drawn in an east-west direction but measure distances north and south?
Latitude
air pollution resulting partly from car and industrial exhaust
Smog
System of roads, ports, and other facilities needed by a modern economy
infrastructure
Area between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. Modern day Iraq
Mesopotamia
Narrow deep inlets of the sea set between high rocky cliffs
Fjords
South America's greatest early Indian Civilzation
Inca
Since Puerto Rico is associated with the US, what is it considered to be
Commonwealth
system where food is produced by a family for its own needs
subsistence agriculture
a small country between two larger, more powerful countries
Buffer states
radical group that came to power in Afghanistan in the 1900s
Taliban
Bolivia's border does not touch the ocean, thus Bolivia's is now considered to be what?
Landlock
Non-spanish colony in Central America
people of Native American and European descent
Mestizo
the statistical study of human populations
Demography
A type of government with a king or queen as head of state and a parliament as the lawmaking branch
Constitutional Monarchy