Unit 1
The most popular sweet treat in the world.
Chocolate
Toxic rain which results when noxious gases are released into the atmosphere and mix with water molecules
Acid Rain
The Jewish Holy Book is
The Torah
The defeated alliance of nations in WWI
Central Powers
The ____________ ___________ is the second longest river in the world, flowing primarily through Brazil in South America. It carries the greatest volume of water of any river in the world.
Amazon River
The Incas cut ____ into the Andes Mountains to create Farmland.
terraces
When humans, their society, and the environment affect each other.
Human Envrionment Interaction
Estimated total value of all the final goods and services produced in a nation in a year's time.
Gross Domestic Product ( GDP )
Most Europeans learn _________ as a second language.
English
the systematic, state-sponsored killing of 11 million innocent people (6 million of whom were Jewish).
Holocaust
The Amazon rainforest produces one-third of the earth’s ______.
oxygen
The Aztecs, Incas, and Mayans all believed in many gods making them ____________.
Polytheistic
The Lorax was about the fear of ____________ affecting the environment.
Pollution
A productive resource that can also be sold of income when sold to other countries.
Natural Resources
The fastest growing religion in Europe is _____________.
Islam
On January 22nd, thousands of people marched on the Winter Palace to ask Tsar Nicholas for reforms. Palace troops shot people in the crowd; this became known as _____________.
Bloody Sunday
The Deforestation of the Amazon Rainforest is leading to the global issues of _______________ and _______________.
Global warming and climate change
Christopher Columbus's voyage was sponsored by which European country?
Spain
An immediate, first-hand accounts of a topic, from people who had a direct connection with it.
Primary Source
Focusing on a narrow range of products/services that can be produced most efficiently and cost-effectively
Specialization
Writing system developed by the Slavic people.
Cyrillic alphabet
"Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely." Based on this quotation, what type of government would Lord Acton most likely support?
Democracy
The loss of trees has also increased ___________, which is a gas that contributes to climate change and global warming.
carbon dioxide
King of the Inca.
Atahualpa
The product of the religion, beliefs, customs, traditions, and government of that society.
Culture
Trade in which both parties voluntarily agree to and benefit from trade.
Voluntary Trade
What are the three dominant language families Europe.
Romance, Germanic, and Slavic
What did Winston Churchill mean when he used the term "Iron Curtain?" to describe western Europe.
That their is now a divide between democratic Western Europe and communist Eastern Europe.
Latin America is ethnically diverse because of a blending of which three groups?
Europeans, Indigenous Americans, and Africans
Named the governor of Peru for his success as a conquistador.
Francisco Pizarro