Latin America
Europe
Africa
Potpourri
Vocab
100
Identify the agreement that reduces trade barriers and lowers prices which stimulates economies in North America.
NAFTA- North America Free Trade Agreement
100
Identify the mountains that divide Europe from Russia.
What are the Ural Mountains?
100
What term means "separateness" and kept the whites and nonwhites apart in South Africa?
What is Apartheid?
100
Fact or Fiction? Russia has a very ethnically diverse population.
What is FACT!
100
Identify the term that can be defined as roads, bridges, buildings, electrical systems, sewer systems- are all the things that make a city or country work.
What is Infrastructure?
200
Identify at least 2 pull factors that that cause immigration.
What is Freedoms, jobs, family, education, and a better life?
200
This organization was created to prevent future wars, and increase economic influence by creating a common currency and opening borders.
What is the European Union?
200
Identify the the major religion and language in north Africa.
What is Islam and Arabic?
200
Identify the major religion that spread throughout Latin America due to European colonization.
What is Catholic/Christianity.
200
Identify the term in which people are forced to leave their country due to war, natural disaster, or political violence.
What is a refugee?
300
Please identify the 3 groups that cause DEFORESTATION in the rainforest.
What is Loggers, Cattle Ranchers and Settlers-- cut down the forest to make money.
300
Describe why it is a disadvantage for a country to be landlocked.
What is because it will be limited in trade with the rest of the world?
300
Identify the major disease affecting Africa AND the reason for the declining life expectancy in Africa.
What is HIV/AIDS? Many countries in Africa lack the funds for educational programs to teach people about the disease.
300
Identify the communist country in Latin America that has a dictator-can you name him??
What is Cuba and Raul Castro?
300
Identify the term that is defined as world wide trade of ideas and goods that usually makes products better and cheaper.
What is globalization?
400
Demand for drugs in the USA fuels the drug cartels (business) that originated in Columbia, but has now spread to this country.
What is Mexico?
400
Although Europe's population is very dense. Describe what is happening to some European countries populations.
What is some population are becoming older and they are shrinking?
400
Describe how micro-entrepreneurs have impacted the quality of in Africa.
What is they have helped women start their own businesses, which helps them provide food and education to their children.
400
Contrast the lives of the wealthy and poor citizens of Mexico.
What is- Wealthy=higher standard of living, access to education, homes built with good materials, vacations Poor-work long hours for little pay, leave school to help family, homes without electricity or plumbing
400
A country with low GDP, low literacy rates, high birth rates and low life expectancy would be considered a developed, middle income, or developing country?
What is a developing country?
500
Identify the two countries that colonized most of the land in Latin America.
What is Spain and Portugal?
500
Describe why is the Chunnel important in Europe?
What is because people can move back and forth to the mainland and the UK?
500
Describe colonialism and why much of Africa is bilingual.
What is a foreign country taking control over another area and influencing their culture. Much of Africa was colonized by European nations causing people to speak European languages.
500
Describe Russia's natural resources and which natural resource is moved through the world's largest network pipeline.
What is-oil and natural gas, and minerals Russia is major supplier of hydroelectric power + has an extensive oil and natural gas pipeline system
500
Identify the term that is defined as using the environment or resources to make money without harming it.
What is sustainable development?
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