Cultural Regions
This region includes countries such as Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and Iran.
What is the Middle East (SW Asia)?
This type of map shows natural features like mountains, rivers, and deserts.
What is a physical map?
This economic union, originally known as the European Economic Community (EEC), now includes 27 European countries and aims to promote economic cooperation and free trade across the continent.
What is the European Union (EU)?
This mountain range forms a natural border between the countries of the United States and Canada, stretching from Alaska down to Mexico.
This major mountain range, and the largest mountain system in North America, stretches from Alaska to Mexico.
What are the Rocky Mountains?
This agricultural practice in Southeast Asia involves the use of "stairs" built into hillsides to prevent soil erosion and maximize arable land in areas with steep terrain and heavy rainfall.
What is terracing (terrace agriculture)?
This region is known for its Spanish speaking population, the Amazon River Basin, and the Andes Mountains.
What is Latin America?
A group or chain of islands.
What is an archipelago?
This military alliance includes 30 countries from North America and Europe, formed to provide collective defense against aggression and ensure security in the region.
What is the NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)?
A sacred river in Hinduism, and a vital source of water and life for millions in India and Bangladesh.
What is the Ganges River?
The clearing or destruction of forests, often for other land uses like agriculture or development.
What is deforestation?
This region includes the countries of Japan, South Korea, and China.
What is East Asia?
This term refers to the line of latitude located at 0° that divides the Earth into the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.
What is the Equator?
This group of 13 oil-producing countries works together to regulate oil production and maintain stable oil prices worldwide.
What is OPEC (Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries)?
This desert, the largest hot desert in the world, stretches across North Africa, and is experiencing desertification.
What is Sahara Desert?
These man-made water routes, such as the ones in Panama and Egypt, help connect bodies of water.
What are canals?
The Sahel is a transitional region located between the Sahara Desert and this region.
What is Sub-Saharan Africa?
A narrow strip of water connecting two larger bodies of water.
What is a strait?
Formerly known as NAFTA, this trade agreement includes the United States, Mexico, and Canada and aims to reduce barriers to trade between these nations.
What is USMCA (United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement)?
This large mountain range stretches across South America, running along the western edge of the continent and home to some of the highest peaks on Earth, including Mount Aconcagua.
What are the Andes Mountains?
What are polders?
This region includes Australia, New Zealand, and many Pacific Islands.
What is Oceania?
This term refers to the process by which people, goods, and ideas move from one place to another.
What is diffusion?
This regional intergovernmental organization in Southeast Asia promotes political and economic cooperation and regional stability among its 10 member countries.
What is ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations)?
A subarctic forest dominated by conifers (such as spruce and fir) found at high latitudes between the tundra and steppes of Siberia and North America.
What is the taiga?
In the Mediterranean region, these types of roofs are commonly used due to their ability to keep homes cool in the summer and provide protection from rainfall, a result of the region’s hot, dry summers and mild, wet winters.
What are tiled roofs?