Location
The exact location.
What is absolute location?
A form of communication, written or spoken.
What is language?
A __________ region is united by characteristics like mountain ranges, proximity to bodies of water, climates, etc.
What is physical region?
Africa possesses a number of ____________________. They helped develop early kingdoms and attracted the attention of colonizing countries.
What are natural resources?
A valuable resource extracted in Asia, particularly in western Asia and Russia.
What is oil?
What is relative location?
Mountains, rivers, and deserts are all examples of __________________________.
Physical Features
The Middle East is both a physical and ___________ region.
What is cultural?
The a major diasporic movement of people from Africa was due to this event.
What is the Transatlantic Slave Trade?
This practice allowed human beings to stay in one place and develop settlements.
What is farming?
North America is located in these two hemispheres.
What is northern and western?
A type of cultural feature that refers to a belief system.
What is religion?
This enormous physical feature unites Northern Africa.
What is the Sahara Desert?
These two African kingdoms had significant contact and cultural exchange; however, one has become much more famous than the other.
What is Egypt and Kush?
This animal is domesticated near the Himalayas to assist with transport of goods over tough terrain.
What is a yak?
A line of latitude at 0 degrees; runs through South America.
What is the equator?
This vocabulary word refers to where a person was born.
What is nationality?
What is tropical wet/dry climate?
What is colonialism or colonization?
We see higher populations next to this type of physical feature.
What is water or bodies of water?
When giving the absolute location, this coordinate comes first.
What is latitude?
Through this process, people leave their homelands (typically by force) and bring their cultural traditions with them to a new country.
What is diaspora?
A cultural feature that might unite Russia with Europe rather than Asia.
What is Christianity?
The Atlantic Slave Trade brought Africans to the Americas. Name two cultural features in North or South America that can be traced back to Africa.
Possible answers - Seafood, rice, sprituals that formed the basis for jazz/rhythm and blues, arts/handicrafts like sweetgrass basket weaving, capoeira
The tropical climate of southeastern Asia is great for growing...
What is rice, pineapples, or mangos?