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Religion
Around the World
Geography Basics
The Holy Land and surrounding areas
100
The ________________ of North Africa is hot all year long so North Africans wear clothes that are long and loose?
What is climate?
100
The Hajj is the Islamic pilgrimage to this city where Muhammad was born in Saudi Arabia.
What is Mecca?
100
Dubai and this country have very high standards of living in the Middle East.
What is Qatar?
100
Meridian is another word for this.
What is longitude?
100
The Egyptians developed this system of writing.
What is hieroglyphics?
200
This is the drier side of a mountain.
What is rain shadow?
200
Traditional Jews and Muslims are forbidden to eat this meat.
What is pork?
200
Most spoken language in the world.
What is Mandarin Chinese?
200
This is how one would measure population density.
What is people per square mile? (will accept ppsm)
200
Zionism is the movement for this religious group to have control over Palestine.
What is Jews?
300
A cyclone is an area of this type of pressure.
What is low?
300
This is the Harvest Festival in India.
What is Pongal?
300
List two examples of pull factors.
What are better jobs, better weather, better economy, better schools?
300
An aquifer is a layer of rock where this is stored.
What is water?
300
The Golan Heights, The West Bank and ___________ are areas of conflict in Israel.
What is The Gaza Strip?
400
When this mixes with chemicals in the air, it can cause acid rain.
What is air pollution?
400
Traditionally, how often are Muslims supposed to pray?
What is five times a day?
400
Gross National Product (GNP), Industrialization, and this are the three factors that measure development.
What is Gross Domestic Product (GDP)?
400
This is the most basic type of economy.
What is subsistence economy?
400
After WWI Palestine became a mandate for this country.
What is Great Britain?
500
This is the process of trapping heat in the earth's atmosphere.
What is Greenhouse Effect?
500
A movement in which people believe in strictly following certain established principles or teachings. Religiously this has been a reaction to the spread of modern culture.
What is fundamentalism?
500
Turkey is found in these two continents.
What is Europe and Asia?
500
List an example of a secondary activity.
What is processing wheat into flour or manufacturing steel?
500
Iran is ruled by this religious leader.
What is an ayatollah?
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