Geographer's Toolkit
Language, Food, Shelter, Clothing, Education, Religion, Entertainment, Traditions
What are the eight elements of culture?
The location of the Rocky Mountains
What is the western half of North America?
A mountain range in the south of Europe
What are the Alps?
A mountain range separating the European and Asian halves of the contintent
The interior of Australia's environment
What is a desert/the Outback?
A government WITH limits on their powers
What is a limited government?
The longest river in the world is located here
What is the Amazon Rainforest?
The most popular religion in Europe
Daily Double! What is the religion that briefly took over half of Spain?
What is Christianity?
Islam
The ground is permanently frozen.
Daily Double! What is the region it exists in?
What is permafrost?
Where is Siberia?
Why Australia failed to trade successfully until 1980s
What is isolation?
What ESPeN stands for
Economy, Social, Political, Environment
A period of distrust between the Soviet Union and much of Western Europe and the United States
What is the Cold War?
Refugees
What are individuals fleeing war, violence, or persecution?
Longest railroad, spans about 6,000 miles.
What is the Trans Siberian Railroad?
The kind of colony Australia started as
What is a Prison/Penal/Jail Colony
The four types of economy
Extra 100: Give me a real example of two for double the points!
Traditional, Command, Market, Mixed
A crisis during the Cold War in this region of the world
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Two rivers are major waterways in Europe crucial for transport?
The Danube and Rhine
Single party controls government and economy.
What is Communism?
The name of the first human civilization to live in Australia
What are Aborigines?
When an idea or innovation moves form one group to another group across the world
What is cultural diffusion?
Grasslands (plains with grass) used for cattle grazing and growing crops in the NORTH
The incident that started World War I
Extra 100 points: What country did it happen in?
What is the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
Serbia
1917 revolution replacing monarchy with communism.
What is the Bolshevik Revolution?
The name/acronym of the organization helping Australia trade
What is APEC?