Vocabulary
This means the spread of ideas, goods, and culture around the world.
What is globalization?
This is the largest ocean on Earth.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
In 1947, this event split British India into two separate countries, India and Pakistan.
What is the Partition (of India)?
This organization includes nearly all countries and works to promote peace.
What is the United Nations?
This is the term for money used in a specific country.
What is currency?
A system where people vote for their leaders.
What is democracy?
This imaginary line divides the Earth into Northern and Southern Hemispheres.
What is the equator?
Conflict in the Middle East began in 1948 when this country was created, leading to disputes over land.
What is Israel?
This global issue involves rising temperatures and extreme weather on Earth.
What is climate change?
This is the term for a good sold from one country to another country.
What is an export/import?
When people leave their country to live somewhere else permanently.
What is emigration?
This continent is home to the Congo, Zambezi, and Niger rivers.
What is Africa?
This natural feature in South America is important for the global climate. Many groups have different interests in it.
What is the Amazon Rainforest?
This form of communication spreads news, images, memes, and messages quickly online but can sometimes include false information.
What is social media?
This is the total value of goods and services a country produces in a year. (Oftentimes, it is divided by the total population)
What is GDP (Gross Domestic Product)?
An economic system where the government controls most businesses.
What is a command economy? (Also accepted: communism)
This mountain range separates Europe and Asia.
What are the Ural Mountains?
This system of racial segregation in South Africa ended in the early 1990s.
What is Apartheid?
This group of people, native to Nepal, are expert climbers but lead the world in deaths of Everest.
Who are the Sherpa?
This is when countries trade without many restrictions or taxes.
What is free trade?
A graph/chart that displays the age and gender divisions of a country.
What is a population pyramid?
As of 2023, this country has the largest population.
What is India?
This movement in China, started by Mao Zedong in 1966, aimed to remove capitalist and traditional elements from society.
What is the Cultural Revolution?
This water feature was blockaded in 2026 by the nation of Iran and the United States.
What is the Strait of Hormuz?
This is a tax on imports and exports.
What is a tariff?