Geography
Latitude and Longitude
Europe
Africa
Latin America
100
Plains, plateaus, and mountains are examples of these.
What are landforms?
100
The center line of latitude, measures 0 degrees latitude
What is the equator?
100
An independent city with its own laws and government
What is a city-state?
100
A desert that covers most of northern Africa
What is the Sahara Desert?
100
A type of dance native to Brazil
What is Samba?
200
A large, raised area of land that is mostly flat on top.
What is a plateau?
200
A set of imaginary lines running an horizontal along the earth’s surface measuring north and south of the equator
What is latitude?
200
Time period in Europe between the fall of Rome and the Renaissance
What are the Middle Ages?
200
The world’s longest river located in Africa
What is the Nile River?
200
These were the first 3 major civilizations in the Americas.
Who were the Maya, Aztec, and Inca?
300
Half of the earth
What is a hemisphere?
300
The point that is at this coordinate: 60 degrees North Latitude and 60 degrees East Longitude
What is Point C?
300
Time period in Europe at the end of the Middle Ages where there was a rebirth, or renewed interest in knowledge, trade, and art
What is the Renaissance?
300
A Black South African who was arrested and imprisoned for resisting apartheid. He was also the first Black president of South Africa
Who is Nelson Mandela?
300
When a parent country creates settlements or territories in other countries
What is colonization?
400
Land surrounded by water on 3 sides
What is a peninsula?
400
The coordinates for Point B.
What is 60 degrees North Latitude and 120 degrees West Longitude?
400
The process in which people, diseases, ideas, and trade were distributed around the world from the Americas and Europe
What is the Columbian Exchange?
400
The widespread cutting of forests
What is deforestation?
400
He was known as the “Liberator” because he helped free South America from Spanish rule
Who is Simon Bolivar?
500
These are the 5 Themes of Geography.
What is Movement, Region, Human Environment Interaction, Location, and Place?
500
The coordinates for Point D.
What is 15 degrees North Latitude and 45 degrees West Longitude?
500
This treaty officially ended World War 1 and stated Germany had to pay back thousands of dollars from war damages.
What is the 1919 Treaty of Versailles?
500
A system of laws that separated racial and ethnic groups and limited the rights of Blacks in South Africa
What is apartheid?
500
This country tried unsuccessfully to build the Panama Canal
Who is France?
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