Geography Skills
This is the 0° line of longitude.
What is the Prime Meridian?
This is the oldest religion in the world.
What is Hinduism?
This Latin American country is also a U.S. Territory.
What is Puerto Rico?
Greece is an example of this type of landform.
What is an archipelago or a peninsula?
Provide an example of a push factor and a pull factor.
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This is the range of latitude.
What is 90° N to 90° S?
These were the first Buddhist Shrines.
This group of people believed that death was dark and should be feared.
Who are the Spanish/Christians?
This is one of the possible solutions to water scarcity in the Middle East.
What is using aquifers, rationing water, dams, or desalination?
This is the capital city of North Dakota.
What is Bismarck?
These are the Five Themes of Geography.
What are Movement, Regions, Human-Environment Interaction, Location, and Place?
Christians consider themselves to be the descendants of...
Who is Isaac (Abraham's son)?
This mountain range separates France and Spain.
What are the Pyrenees?
This is where Christianity originated.
What is Canaan, Palestine, the Holy Land, or the Promised Land?
This is why Latin America is called Latin America.
What is because the modern languages spoken there are based on Latin?
This type of map shows a small area with lots of detail.
What is a large scale map?
Describe the Israel Palestine conflict.
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Define interdependence.
What is when nations or areas of the world depend upon each other?
This was the main character in the short story “Santa Claus in Baghdad”.
Who is Amal?
This is considered the most popular image/art related to Day of the Dead.
What are skulls/calaveras?
This map projection is commonly used for maps of places near the equator.
What is a cylindrical projection?
This Hindu celebration is devoted to the goddess Shakti and the triumph of good over evil.
What is Navaratri?
This is where the Europeans went to gain more natural resources. (3 places)
What are North America, South America, and Africa?
These are the four major problems Latin America faced after gaining independence and democracy.
What are widespread poverty, poor schools, unstable governments, and low standard of living conditions?
FINAL JEOPARDY:
Why is it important to understand other countries/cultures other than your own?
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