US and Canada
Growing urbanization has lead to negative impacts on this
These are the two continents we covered in this unit
What are North and South America?
This country is split between Europe and Asia by the Ural mountains
What is Russia?
Australia is home to many of these types of species
What are endemic species?
This is the name of the desert that stretches across the top of Africa
This terminal lake is now saltier than the ocean
What is the Aral Sea?
This is the term for when someone is moving out of a country
What is emigrating?
This is the name of the area with lots of islands, including the Antilles and the Lucayan archipelago
What is the Caribbean or West Indies?
This is the type of economy they had in the USSR during the Cold War
What is communism?
This is a bird found on the southernmost continent on Earth
What are penguins?
These are the names for the two branches of the longest river in Africa
What are the White Nile and the Blue Nile?
This is the thing that we drill out of the ground to make gasoline and other petroleum products with
What is Crude Oil?
This is the term for something that drives someone from their original country to somewhere new
This is the name of the river and the rainforest we had a debate about in class
What is the Amazon?
This is the type of graph we use to show whether the population of an area is growing, staying the same, or declining
What is a population pyramid?
This region stretches from Hawaii to the Easter Islands and New Zealand
What is Polynesia?
This was the term for the women who lead small business across Africa
What are Microentrepreneurs?
These two groups of people have been in conflict over the same land for over 100 years
Who are Israel and Palestine?
This is the term for the downtown or central buisness district of a city
We learned about income inequality in this city
What is Mexico City?
This nuclear catastrophe is one of the largest examples of transboundary pollution of all time
What is Cherynoble?
This movie triology was filmed in New Zealand
What is The Lord of the Rings?
This is the belief that Europeans had that suggest they were genetically superior to the people of Africa
What is Eugenics?
This country has some of the fastest trains in the world to deal with its high population density
What is Japan?
This is how many territories and provinces there are in Canada
What is thirteen?
This is the main economic activity on the Galapagos Islands
What is eco tourism?
This devastating outbreak from the 1300s killed a third of Europe’s population
What is the Black Death?
This si the name of the dance that is part of Maori culture
What is the Haka?
This place was a good example of how many different cultures can exist in the different regions of one country
What is Nigeria?
These are the two branches of the most popular religion in Asia
What are Shia and Sunni Islam?
This is the deepest of the Great Lakes
What is Lake Superior?
This is the main crop grown in the Caribbean by enslaved people in the 1700s
What is Sugarcane?
The Kamchatka Peninsula is an active area for tectonic activity and is part of this area in the Pacific
What is the Ring of Fire?
What is the Great Emu War?
This is the shape they use for planting to help regreening in the Sahel
What is a half circle?
This is the name of the tool used to measure how differently men and women are treated in different countries
What is the Gender Inequality Index?
This is the term for when a rundown area of a city experiences refurbishment, often times pushing out the current residents
What is gentrificiation?
What is a Category 4 hurricane?
The assassination of this man was the spark that ignited WWI
Who is Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
Micronesia is known for having many of this type of island
What is coral atolls?
This man was imprisoned in South Africa during Apartheid but then later became president
Who is Nelson Mandela?
This is the largest ethnic group in the world without its own country
Who are the Kurds?
This is the term for the total value of goods and services produced in a country in a year per person
This is the highest altitude zone in the Andes
What is Tierra Helada?
The European Union is an example of one of these, which helps different countries cooperate on a global scale
What is an Intergovernmental Organization?
This region is known for having some of the highest linguistic diveristy anywhere on Earth
What is Melanesia?
This man was a politician and colonialist in the British Cape Colony during the 1880s
Who is Cecil Rhodes?
This is the third step of making a globalized product
What is Manufacturing?
We heard from Ms. Fichtinger's Aunt Katie, who is a fire captain in this National Park
What is Yosemite National Park?
This is the region of Mexico where QP has it's sister parish
This is the name of the micro-state where Lady Fichtinger got her title from
What is Sealand?
This is the name of the research station on the South Pole
What is the Amundson-Scott Research Station
This is the name for raised, rocky areas found in the Sahara
What is a Hamada?
This is the name of the coastal area Anthony Bourdain visited in our documentary
What is Halong Bay in Vietnam?