Vocabulary
What is caste system?
Term that describes the movement of people from rural areas to cities.
What is urbanization?
Positive results of building a dam.
What is hydroelectricity, controlled flooding, storage of water and recreational facility?
The Suez Canal and Singapore (Strait of Malacca) are examples of this..
What are choke points?
Method of usually subsistence farming done in rain forest areas. It contributes to the destruction of the rain forest when it is done on a large scale, but can also be beneficial if done on a small scale.
What is slash and burn farming?
Dry grassland found across Kazakhstan and southern Russia.
steppe
The Sahel in Africa is experiencing this phenomena through over-farming and over-grazing practices.
What is desertification?
Negative consequences of building a dam.
What is changed ecosystem, costly maintenance, relocation of people, loss of arable farmland.
Region of the world with a fresh water scarcity problem.
What is Southwest Asia?
Area in dispute between India and Pakistan creating concern over the possible use of nuclear weapons.
What is Kashmir?
Region in the Pacific where plates meet and create volcanoes and earthquakes.
What is the Ring of Fire?
Agriculture advances that included genetically modified seeds, use of pesticides and fertilizers, double cropping and irrigation. These practices greatly increased food production but were also harmful to the environment and expensive for small farmers.
What is the Green Revolution?
Helped create the isolation of India.
What are the Himalayas?
Frozen, treeless plain.
What is tundra?
Another name for the region of South Asia.
What is subcontinent?
Government policy separating blacks, whites and coloreds in South Africa.
Apartheid
Economic system with some private and some government ownership and control.
What is socialism or mixed economy?
The results of WWI, Sykes Picot Agreement, the Balfour Declaration, Zionism all played a role in this ongoing conflict since 1948.
What is the Palestinian-Israeli conflict?
Saudi Arabia is the center of this supranational organization centered around a major world resource.
What is OPEC?
Has contributed to low life expectancy in Africa South of the Sahara.
What is AIDS?
Dry, desolate, sparsely populated region of Australia west of the Great Dividing Range.
Purpose of art (including movies, books, and billboards as well as paintings) in totalitarian systems.
What is propaganda?
Ability to grow rice as well as flooding.
What are effects of monsoon winds in Asia?
Located in Eastern Africa, caused by tectonic plates pulling apart.
What is the Great Rift Valley?
Because of its weak government and lawlessness, Somalia has been known for this...
What is piracy (off of its coast)?