Geographic Terms
This type of map shows mountains, rivers and elevations.
What is a physical map?
More than 90% of the people in this country live near the Nile River
What is Egypt?
The largest hot desert in the world
What is the Sahara Desert?
This people group use reindeer sleds and snowmobiles for transportation
Who are the Sami people?
This trade route connected East Asia with southwest Asia, Europe and Africa.
What is the Silk Road?
A piece of land almost entirely surrounded by water but connected to the mainland on one side
What is a peninsula?
What are Greece and Turkey? (Greece and Troy)
These two rivers are vital to the Middle East.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates?
Who are the Kurds?
This city is considered holy in Islam, Judaism and Christianity
What is Jerusalem?
A long, deep, narrow body of water that reaches far inland
What is a fjord?
These two countries are located on the Iberian peninsula
What are Spain and Portugal?
This mountain range stretches across most of Central Europe.
What are the Alps?
The largest populations of this people group are found in Algeria and Morocco. An example are the Taureg.
Who are the Berbers?
The region where Asia, Europe and Africa meet
What is the Middle East?
What is a region?
This African country has a flag very similar to the United States and named their capital after a U.S. president
What is Liberia? (Monrovia after James Monroe)
Dr. Ferdinand de Lessop created this "shortcut" that runs between Africa and Asia.
Who are the Berber people?
This is considered the natural boundary between Europe and Asia
What are the Ural Mountains?
A ring-shaped island, coral reef or series of islets that encircles a lagoon
What is an atoll?
These are the only two countries that span both Europe and Asia.
What are Russia and Turkey?
The invisible division between the Koreas
What is the 38th parallel line of latitude?
This people group lives at the foot of the Bandiagara Escarpment in West Africa.
Who are the Dogon people?
This is becoming more important because melting ice is creating more shipping route options
What is the Arctic?