Geography Essentials
In what hemisphere would you find most of Africa?
What is the Southern Hemisphere?
The condition of the atmosphere at a particular time is known as what?
What is weather?
Why did North America’s major cities develop along rivers?
What is rivers were important for transportation and as a water source?
Who became leader of Cuba in the 1960s?
Who is Fidel Castro?
In what type of farming do people grow only enough food to feed their own families?
What is subsistence farming?
Who were Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci?
Who were artists?
What human activity caused the Aral Sea to shrink?
What is irrigation?
What does the work Zimbabwe mean in the Shona language?
What is "stone houses"?
What are the two important rivers of Mesopotamia?
What are the Tigris & Euphrates?
What mostly Muslim country was known as East Pakistan between 1947 and 1971?
What is Bangladesh?
What does the word Samurai mean?
What is "one who serves"?
What country controlled the Philippines from 1521 - 1898?
What is Spain?
What continent is higher and colder than any other continent?
What is Antarctica?
What divides the Western Hemisphere from the Eastern Hemisphere?
What is the Prime Meridian?
What is a type of command economy in which the government owns all property?
What is Communism?
Which Mexican civilization studied the stars, developed a calendar, and had a system of writing?
Who are the Mayan?
What was the trade pattern among the Americas, Europe, and Africa called?
What is triangular trade?
Smaller rivers that drain into a larger river are called what?
What are tributaries?
What was an imaginary border that divided Europe during the Cold War?
What was the Iron Curtain?
What greenhouse gas do scientists suspect is being released from Siberian lakes?
What is methane?
What is the major river in Central Africa?
What is the Congo River?
About how much rain does the Sahara Desert receive per year?
What is less than four inches?
How did Gandhi promote Indian independence?
What is through civil disobedience?
What is a major cause of desertification in Mongolia?
What is livestock grazing?
Part of what country was known to Europeans as the Spice Islands?
What is Indonesia?
What problem do dingoes cause?
What is they attack native animals and livestock?
The exact point where a place is located is called the what?
What is absolute location?
What type of human rights gives people the right to work?
What are economic rights?
What increased the speed of transportation in the 1800s?
What is canals and railroads?
In the triangular trade, what came from the Americas?
What is raw materials?
What empire was located along the western coast of South America from 1438 until the 1530s?
What is Inca?
What industry in Great Britain started the Industrial Revolution?
What is textile?
What tactic did the Russians adopt when Napoleon invaded?
What is scorched earth policy?
What are the four regions of Sub-Saharan Africa?
What is West Africa, East Africa, Central Africa, and Southern Africa?
What allowed agriculture to flourish along the Nile River?
What is predictable flooding?
On which river was Harappan civilization based?
What is the Indus River?
From which dynasty does the name China probably come?
What is the Qin?
Original built as a Hindu temple, this complex of interconnected buildings is located in Cambodia.
What is Angkor Wat?
What three things threaten the corals that make up reefs?
What is warmer water temperatures, pollution, and overfishing?
Fish and plants for people's diets accurately lists what type of resources?
What are biological resources?
What is a group of a few people who rule society called?
What is an oligarchy?
Why was Britain able to conquer New France?
What is the British had a stronger army and more money than the French?
What natural disaster destroyed much of Haiti’s capital in 2010?
What is an earthquake?
The slash-and-burn technique is a way of doing what?
What is clearing land for farming?
What event helped Adolf Hitler gain power in Germany?
What is the Great Depression?
What term is used for the flat land found in arctic and subarctic regions?
What is tundra?
A common language between multiple groups of people is known as a ______________.
What is lingua franca?
What is the name for flat land located near a river that floods?
What is an alluvial plain?
Which empire practiced Hinduism and made important cultural contributions to India beginning in A.D. 320?
What is Gupta Empire?
What did Confucianism teach?
What is both rulers and subjects have to act properly?
What helped certain kingdoms in ancient Southeast Asia gain power?
What is control of trade?
How did the first people probably get to Australia?
What is traveled by sea or land bridge from Asia?
Subduction, divergence, convergence, and transform are terms that describe what?
What are the four ways tectonic plates move?
Which sector of economic activity involves using raw materials from the soil or water?
What is the primary sector?
What is the area between the Rockies and the Sierra Nevada Mountains called?
What is the Great Basin?
What history do Puerto Rico and Cuba share?
What is they were once both Spanish colonies?
Enslaved Africans were used to harvest which two major plantation crops?
What was sugar and coffee?
What was Martin Luther trying to reform?
What is the Roman Catholic Church?
What separates the Northern European Plain from the West Siberian Plain?
What are the Ural Mountains?
To promote unity among all Africans was the goal of what?
What is Pan-Africanism?
Which Babylonian leader rebuilt the port of Ur on the Persian Gulf?
Who was Nebuchadnezzar?
What river flows through New Delhi?
What is the Yamuna River?
What role did China and Korea play in Japan's industrialization?
What is they were sources of raw materials?
What are the 5 largest islands of Indonesia?
What are Sumatra, Java, Borneo, Sulawesi, and New Guinea?
What three main groups of British people settled in Australia?
What are convicts, migrants, and gold seekers?