War, Famine, Disease, Oppressive Governments, Natural Disasters are all example of this.
What are push factors?
100
This organization seeks to control the price of oil by controlling much of the worlds supply.
What is OPEC? (Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries.)
100
Native to an area.
What is Indigenous?
200
This has the greatest effect on a places climate.
What is Latitude?
200
This level of economic activity involves direct extraction of natural resources.
What is primary economic activity?
200
Through this interaction, the Americas received language religion, government types and diseases while western Europe received many raw materials and resources.
What is the Colombian Exchange?
200
A group of places with at least 1 common characteristic
What is a region?
200
This overland trade route from China to the Mediterranean Sea from 100 B.C. to the 15th century allowed for the diffusion of both disease and technology.
What is The Silk Road?
300
This area is characterized by having frequent volcanic activity, and surrounds the pacific ocean.
What is the ring of fire?
300
This economic system allows citizens to own, operate and profit from their own business.
What is a free enterprise economy?
300
This system, though outlawed in India today, determined ones place in Indian society for many years.
What is The Caste System?
300
This system found in South Africa segregated blacks and whites, allowing the white minority to control the region for many years.
What is apartheid?
300
This area in modern day Iraq is thought to be home to one of the earliest world civilizations. It is also the area between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers.
What is Mesopotamia or The Fertile Crescent?
400
This process is responsible for creating the grand canyon.
What is erosion?
400
This system has many social service provided by the government and most important industry controlled by the government.
What is Socialism?
400
Each of these religions began here: Christianity, Islam, Judaism.
What is Southwest Asia or The Middle East?
400
This describes a religion that has one God.
What is monotheistic?
400
A computer program used to place multiple layers of data across earths space in order to answer geographic questions.
What is GIS? Geographic Information Systems
500
This describes why there are colder winters and warmer summers in the middle of Nebraska than on the coast of Delaware despite them being at similar latitudes
What is continentality?
500
This economic system in found in North Korea and Cuba.
What is Communism or a Command Economy?
500
The government of Iran could be characterized as this.
What is a Theocracy?
500
This describes where major civilizations began. Examples of these might be in the Middle East, East Africa, India, China, and Central America.
What are Cultural Hearths?
500
The impacts of this are both positive and negative including greater interdependence, increased standard of living, diffusion of technology, but also rapid diffusion of disease and a loss of local cultural identity.