Global Geography
This mountain range runs north and south through Russia, acting as the boundary between Europe and Asia.
What are the Ural Mountains?
This is what the abbreviation "EU" stands for.
What is the European Union?
This was the main pollutant released during the 1986 Chernobyl power plant explosion.
What is nuclear radiation?
This three-letter acronym stands for the total value of goods and services produced in a country.
What is GDP (Gross Domestic Product)?
This is the primary natural resource found in Southwest Asia.
What is petroleum (or oil)?
This island country lies off the eastern coast of mainland Africa.
What is Madagascar?
When countries give up some individual control to work together on shared goals, it is called this type of cooperation.
What is Supranational Cooperation?
This was the primary cause of the catastrophic explosion at the Chernobyl plant.
What is human error?
Farming that is carried out mainly to provide food for a person's own family is known as this.
What is subsistence farming?
This specific part of China is the most heavily populated region of the country.
What is Eastern China?
This term describes a group or chain of islands, such as those found in Monsoon Asia.
What is an archipelago?
This body of water is located directly south of the European continent.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
This specific event is the leading cause for the drop in life expectancy in Belarus since 1990.
What is the Chernobyl explosion?
This ranking uses a number scale to rate how much liberty the citizens of a country have.
What is the Freedom Index?
This massive mountain range is located in Monsoon Asia.
What are the Himalayas?
This is the longest river in the entire continent of Africa.
What is the Nile River?
Of these three countries—Finland, Greece, or Italy—this one is located farthest to the north.
What is Finland?
This is how the accidental cyanide spill in Romania was able to spread so quickly to neighboring countries.
What is through rivers?
Life expectancy and infant mortality rates are both used as indicators of this.
What is the quality of life?
This mountain range runs along the western coast of South America.
What are the Andes Mountains?
This region is unique because it has land located in all four of Earth's hemispheres.
What is Africa?
If a member country disagrees with a decision made by the EU government, this happens to that decision.
What is "it does not go into effect"?
This is the term for pollution that starts in one country but is carried by wind or water across borders to others.
What is transboundary pollution?
This term refers to an independent country where the people share a common cultural identity.
What is a nation-state?
A traditional culture is based primarily on this way of life.
What is an ancestor’s way of life?