MOUNTAINS
The Amazon region covers this percentage of Brazil
What is 60%?
The term for the influence of geography on political activities
What is geopolitics?
The two great powers in the post-World War II world
What are the United States and the Soviet Union?
The number of Ernest Shackleton’s crew that died during the expedition he led to reach the South Pole
What is none?
The most important feature of the Korean peninsula
What is the 38th parallel?
The longest mountain range in the world
What are the Andes mountains?
The policy of the communist government in China to slow population growth
What is the One Child Policy?
The vast heartland of Australia is called this…
What is the Outback?
The first person to climb Mt. Everest
Who is Edmund Hillary?
The difference in the governments of South Korea and North Korea
What is South Korea is a democracy and North Korea is a Communist dictatorship?
The chain of mountains that stretches from the top of North America to the bottom of South America
What is the American Cordillera?
China’s plan to build roads, ports, and other infrastructure around the world
What is the Belt and Road Initiative?
This country claims control of the Northern Sea Route through the Arctic Ocean
What is Russia?
The first known inhabitants of New Zealand
Who were the Maori?
The reason Vietnam is more than just a place and has an emotional impact for many Americans is because of this…
What is the U.S. fought a costly and divisive war there?
The main access route through the mountains between Afghanistan and Pakistan
What is the Khyber Pass?
The idea that if Vietnam fell to the Communists, other countries in Indochina would also fall is called this…
What is the domino theory?
Nepal lies between these two powerful countries
What are China and India?
These were the first people develop a compass
Who are the Chinese?
The long term leaders of the two opposing parties in China during the early 1900s
Who were Mao Zedong and Chiang Kai-Shek?
Tulips originated in these 2 mountain ranges
What are the Tien Shan mountains of China and the Pamir Mountains of Russia
The term meaning the study of the earth’s human population
What is demography?
This is the only country in Central America without a Pacific coast
What is Belize?
The largest single ethnic group in Afghanistan
What are the Pashtuns?
After one party won the civil war in China following WWII, the supporters of the other party did this
What is withdrew to Taiwan?