History
The movement that was based on a desire to establish a Jewish homeland
What is the Zionist Movement?
At the time of World War 1, this was called the “sick man of Europe”.
What is the Ottoman Empire?
The study of how physical geography impacts human activity and how human activity impacts physical geography is called:
What is Human Geography?
The English name for the largest contiguous sand desert in the world, located on the Arabian Peninsula
What is the Empty Quarter?
GPS stands for this:
What is Global Positioning System?
Soldiers from this empire forced many Armenians from their homes during World War 1, which led to a huge genocide of Armenians.
What is the Ottoman Empire?
The term for the impact that every astronaut has reported of being deeply affected by looking back at the earth beneath them.
What is the Overview effect?
In the last 50 years, Côte d’Ivoire has lost 80% of this geographic feature.
What are rainforests?
The three cultures that intersect in Tunisia.
What are African, European, and Islamic?
The military of this country had the goal of mapping the entire world during the Cold War.
What is the Soviet Union?
Person who was put on display at the St. Louis World’s Fair and the Bronx Zoo.
Who is Ota Benga?
The common term for the ethnic group the largest tribe of which is the Mbuti is:
Who are the Pygmies?
This industry is part of a movement of national renewal and economic revival in Rwanda.
What is the clothing industry?
The western limit of the Mediterranean Sea
What is the Strait of Gibraltar?
These two continents meet in Turkey.
What is Europe and Asia?
In 1990 F.W. De Klerk Began the process of ending the practice of segregation on the basis of race known as this:
The phrase used to describe the competition among European countries to establish colonies in sub Saharan Africa?
What is the Scramble for Africa?
The group that moved out of the Cape of Good Hope area because of British encroachment.
Who are the Boers?
About 300 small villages of the Dogon people in Mali lie on or near this geographic feature.
What is the Bandiagara Escarpment?
Another name for the zero degree meridian that runs through Greenwich, England.
What is the Prime Meridian?
The part of the world where Basque cod fishers and whalers were working around the time Columbus sailed to the New World.
What is the eastern coast of Canada?
EVD stands for this: It is named for this:
What is Ebola Virus Disease? & What is the Ebola River?
This is important to remember about the identity of the people brought to America as slaves.
What is they are not simply “Africans” but were members of many different ethnic groups and cultures?
Kenya is on the coast of this ocean.
What is the Indian Ocean?
The two greatest physical safeguards for the United States are:
What are the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans?