Vocabulary
Narrow strip of land that connects two larger pieces of land
What is an isthmus?
Giving location using terms like "next to" or "off the coast of"
What is a relative location?
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the emigration of highly trained or intelligent people from a particular country.
What is the Brain Drain?
Way to create revenue without harming the environment with use of things like energy efficient hotels
What is ecotourism?
a periodic reversal of the pattern of ocean currents and water temperatures in the mid-Pacific region
What is El Nino?
Sphere of earth where Mountains, volcanoes and plains exist
What is the geosphere (lithosphere)?
tectonic activity around the Pacific Ocean, causes earthquakes, mountains, volcanoes, and tsunamis.
What is the Ring of Fire?
a system of society or government ruled by a woman or women.
What is matriarchy?
Precipitation caused by the industrial burning of coal and other fossil fuels
What is Acid Rain?
Location where culture develops and spreads elsewhere (example: Mesopotamia)
What is a culture Hearth?
birth rate and death rate are equal
River that flows from Minnesota and empties into the gulf of Mexico
What is the Mississippi River?
International organization to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic law, social progress, human rights, and world peace
What is the United Nations?
Low lying islands only 6 feet above sea level who held an underwater cabinet meeting about climate change
What are the Maldives?
Financial incentive behind Kyoto Protocol. Companies receive credits that they can trade for keeping their greenhouse gas emissions low
What is Cap and Trade?
Boundary that uses straight lines and ignores ethnic differences
What is a geometric boundary?
a long, narrow, deep inlet of the sea between high cliffs, as in Norway and Iceland, typically formed by submergence of a glaciated valley.
What is a fjord?
This organization controls 61% of the world's oil resources and keeps prices high
What is OPEC?
Controlled Eastern Europe and placed heavy emphasis on industrialization thus hurting the environment
Who are the Soviets?
This uses birthrates and death rates and show how population changes over time
Only supports limited plant life due to the lack of direct sunlight
What are high latitude zone climates?
Power generated and stored in the Earth
What is geothermal energy?
Religion practiced in most of Latin America
What is Catholicism?
Reason Japan experiences radiation in their water and food supply
Earthquake/ tsunami that destroyed the nuclear reactor