Map Perspectives
Which continent would be more accurately depicted during Columbus' time?
What is Europe
Areas of the Earth's surface that share unifying characteristics?
What regions?
Located in Jerusalem and is believed to be the spot where Muhammad rose to heaven.
What is Dome of the Rock?
A major Latin American country that does not use Spanish as its primary language.
What is Brazil?
Physical feature that determines the flow of rivers either east or west.
What is the Continental Divide?
The body of water located between mainland Asia and Japan is known by these two names.
What are the Sea of Japan and the East Sea?
Regions are defined by either physical or _________ characteristics.
What is cultural?
First introduced in the late 19th century and located in Paris, France.
What is the Eiffel Tower?
Ethnic conflict in Africa was between these two groups.
Who are the Hutus and the Tutsis?
Land feature located between the Appalachian Mountains and the Great Plains.
What is the Interior Lowlands?
Formosa, ____________, Republic of China.
What is Taiwan?
Examples of "cultural" regions defined by language.
What are Latin America and the Francophone World?
Built by the Shah Jahan as a memorial to his favorite wife.
What is the Taj Mahal?
While the United States, Switzerland, and Canada have multiple ethnicities, these two east Asian countries are predominately one ethnicity.
Who are Japan and Korea?
Interior land feature and water feature shared by both Canada and the United States.
What are the Great Plains and the Great Lakes?
North Africa and Southwest Asia
What is the Middle East?
Chinatown and Kurdistan are both this type of "cultural" region.
What is Ethnic?
Was once used to worship the many gods of their polytheistic faith and is located in Saudi, Arabia.
What is Kaaba?
This religion serves as a unifying force for most of the people in the Middle East.
What is Islam?
Economic alliance that has both Canada and the United States as members.
What is the North America Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)?
Disputed territory located between India and Pakistan.
What is Kashmir?
North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the African Union both have this in common?
What is they are both political "cultural" regions?
Located in Moscow, this is known as the seat of the Russian government.
What is the Kremlin?
Predominate ethnic groups of the former Yugoslavia.
Who are Albanians, Bosnians, Croats, and Serbs?
Both the United States and Canada are members of this political alliance that also includes members from Europe.
What is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)?