Physical Features of Africa and Asia
Fertile area in the desert where there is water and vegetation.
What is oasis?
The system of racial segregation and oppression.
What is apartheid?
It is threatening rainforest in Africa.
What is deforestation?
A government controlled by one person who has not won a free election.
What is autocracy?
Lack of infrastructure, and work force that is frequently ill and poorly educated.
What economic challenges does Africa face?
The largest desert in the world found in Africa.
What is the Sahara desert?
A system in which government owns all property and makes all economic decisions.
What is Communism?
A thick haze caused by smoke and automobile exhaust fumes.
What is smog?
These economies are common in East Asia. It blends market economics with some government involvement is most common.
What is a mixed market economy?
He fought to end apartheid and was later the president.
Who was Nelson Mandela?
It is the longest river in Africa.
What is Nile River?
It measures the monetary value of all the goods and services produced in a country.
What is gross domestic product?
Devastating storms that can cause massive destruction if they get close to land.
What are typhoons and hurricanes?
This threat has spread across North Africa.
What is Islamic terrorism?
He was a Chinese Communist leader.
Who was Mao Zedong?
A very important series of trade routes.
What was the Silk Road?
A political and social movement to strengthen bonds between people of African descent.
What is Pan-Africanism?
Causes places to be very crowded.
What is urbanization?
A philosophy of following the Dao, that is, the natural way of the universe.
What is Daoism?
A lack of nutrients from food.
What is malnutrition?
Longest river in Asia.
What is the Yangtze River?
Each of these is a system of beliefs about the world and how to live.
What is Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism?
AIDS, Ebola, and malaria.
What are the deadly diseases in Africa?
A strong feeling of pride and devotion to one's country.
What is nationalism?
They are a mixture of over 400 different ethnic groups.
Who are the Bantu?