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Area most North Africans live
Along the Mediterranean Coast
A dry stream bed that fills with water after a rainstorm
wadi
An unforested grassland
steppe
Official language of China
Mandarin
Largest coral formation in the world
The Great Barrier Reef
Nomads that live in the desert and travel from place to place with their herds.
Bedouins
2 oceans that surround South Africa
Indian and Atlantic
The meaning of the suffix "stan"
The land of
Called the "roof of the world"
Tibetan Plateau
Flattest area on earth that makes up half of the ocean floor.
Abyssal plains
Name of the Asian part of Egypt
Sinai Peninsula
Term used when Europeans grabbed up pieces of Africa in the late 1800's
The Scramble for Africa
Landform that separates South Asia from the rest of Asia
The Himalayas
Island that contains the highest mountain in South Korea
Jeju
Only country in Southeast Asia not colonized by Europeans
Thailand
A grassy plain in tropical and subtropical regions
Savannah
Year that the UN recognized Israel as an independent nation.
1948
The British set up this country as a homeland for the Muslims in India.
Pakistan
Last dynasty of China
Manchu Dynasty
Organization founded in 1967 to promote political and economic cooperation
ASEAN
Ancient empire that controlled the gold trade in the Sahel region.
Ghana
Nelson Mandela and FW DeClerk worked together to help end this oppressive policy of ethnic separation in South Africa.
Apartheid
The Ganges river flows through these 2 countries
India and Bangladesh
Country that contains the Gobi desert to the south
Mongolia
The 3 regions of the Pacific Islands
Melanesia, Polynesia, Micronesia
2 countries in North Africa with highest % of Muslims
Morocco and Mauritania
Lake Victoria is surrounded by what 3 countries
Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania
A country or portion of a country surrounded by another country
enclave
Climate of southern Japan and Korea
humid subtropical
3 agreements in the Antarctic Treaty signed in 1959
banned all military bases, banned all weapons testing, sharing all information freely, open all camps for inspection