Ecology & Environmentalism
This term refers to the process of evaporation, condensation, and precipitation.
What is the water cycle?
The line separating two areas, such as countries, states, or properties
What is a political border?
A long, narrow valley with very steep sides.
Where is a canyon?
This is a system in which one country rules over one or more colonies, controlling trade with those colonies for their own economic benefit.
What is colonialism?
The seven continents.
What are North America, South America, Africa, Europe, Asia, Antarctica, and Australia?
This is the gradual wearing away of Earth’s surface by the action of wind, water, ice, and gravity.
What is erosion?
This is a political unit that controls a particular territory. It has a defined territory, a permanent population, a sovereign government, and is recognized by other states.
What is a state?
A piece of land that is almost entirely surrounded by water but is connected to the mainland on one side.
What is a peninsula?
This is the second phase of European colonialism in which states sought colonies for resources necessary for industrialization, outlets for overpopulation, and markets for their goods.
What is imperialism?
A region with a wide range of plant and animal species living in it is said to have this.
What is biodiversity?
This is a a sovereign state, or country, whose people mostly share a common identity.
What is a nation-state?
A flat, elevated landform that rises sharply above the surrounding area on at least one side.
What is a plateau?
This term refers to the rapid colonization of Africa by European powers after the Berlin Conference in 1884-85.
What is The Scramble for Africa?
Generating electricity and controlling the flow of water on a river in order to prevent flooding are the two main reasons these are built. There is a large one found in Egypt!
What is a dam?
This term means possessing supreme or independent political power.
What is sovereignty?
A portion of the ocean that is partly surrounded by land.
What is a sea?
This is the action or process of a state withdrawing from a former colony, leaving it independent.
What is decolonization?
This physical feature provides water for drinking and agriculture, and has been used for transportation and trade routes since the beginning of human settlements.
What are rivers?
The prevalence of Spanish and Portuguese in Latin America due to colonization is an example of this.
What is cultural diffusion?
A human-made waterway that allows boats and ships to pass from one body of water to another.
What is a canal?
This was a policy or system of segregation or discrimination on grounds of race in South Africa.
What was Apartheid?