World Regions
Europe
The Russian Federation, Central Asia, and the Transcaucasus
Middle East and North Africa
Thinking like a Geographer
100
The approximate global population.
What is 7 billion people?
100
This process in Europe that began in the late 1700s and is often described in "three waves" was dependent on raw materials from overseas expansion.
What is European industrialization?
100
permanently frozen subsurface material.
What is permafrost?
100
A group of oil-exporting nations   
What is OPEC? (Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries)
100
The study of how the Earth's physical features are formed
What is geomorphology?
200
World Trade Organization, North American Free Trade Agreement, & the European Union
What are examples of supranational organizations?
200
The expected ratio of workers to retirees in Europe by 2050.
What is 2:1?
200
Russia's "command economy" was established by this Soviet leader.
Who is Joseph Stalin?
200
The world's longest river, found in the Middle East/North Africa region
What is the Nile?
200
Water harvesting, local food varieties, & biodiversity protection.
What are some examples of policies in sustainable cities?
300
“a system of elements—political-economic, sociocultural, environmental—linked together so that changes in one element often result in changes in another”
What is Globalization?
300
“a political and economic system in which regions and societies are legally, economically, and politically dominated by an external society”
What is Colonialism?
300
“a form of economic and social organization characterized by the common ownership of industry, transportation, agricultural land, and other key economic and social resources”
What is Communism?
300
“a way of seeing that imagines, emphasizes, exaggerates and distorts differences of Arab peoples and cultures as compared to that of Europe and the U.S.”
What is Orientalism?
300
“a form of social and economic organization characterized by the profit motive and individual and corporate ownership of productive goods and resources”
What is Capitalism?
400
Snow cover is down 7%, Spring comes earlier, Air temperature has increased an average of .85 degrees Celsius, Sea levels have increased 19 cm, and sea ice is down by 5 million square kilometers.
What are 5 scientific indicators of global climate change? (Review figure 1.10 on p. 11)
400
The term used to describe the United Kingdom leaving the European Union.
What is Brexit?
400

This region is considered an "emerging world region" and has geopolitical significance for the US, Canada, Greenland (Denmark), Norway, and the Russian Federation.

What is the Arctic?

400

A term that revers to the numerous recent protests against dictatorships across the Middle East region in which people motivated by economic inequalities and lack of access to basic resources have taken to the streets to voice their concerns.

What is the Arab Spring?

400
The period of Earth's history where human activity dominates the earth system.
What is the Anthropocene?
500
These are the two primary countries that were involved in the "Cold War."
What are the United States (US) and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR)?
500

Of France, Germany, and Norway, the one that was not an original member of the EU.

What is Norway?

500
The two countries that are currently contesting control of Crimea.
What are the Ukraine and Russia?
500
Two ways that people living in North Africa and the Middle East have found ways to provide water in this environment.
What is water mining (such as the Qanat system in Iran) and desalinization?
500

Plants or animals from one place that have "hitchhiked" to a new locations on human transport, or are deliberately introduced and thrive at their destination.

What are invasive species?

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