U4-Conflicts
This is an example of a Choke Point?
What are the Strait of Hormuz (oil transit), Suez Canal, Strait of Malacca, Bab-el-Mandeb, and Panama Canal.
Our earliest ancestors used these for protection against wild animals and invaders.
What are walls?
The manmade destruction of arable land?
What is desertification and/or deforestation
This is the main crop grown in Broneo?
Palm Oil.
This European city has a higher population density that NYC?
Paris, Athens, Barcelona, Monoco, Lyon
1-A stateless people
2-Give an example
Kurds, Taiwan, Cherokee (Native Americans), Palestinians, Catalonians,
A tightly knit group of people sharing a common language, ethnicity, religion, and other cultural attributes.
nation, nationality or nationalism will also accept patriotism
This revolution allowed people to settle in one area.
What is the Neolithic or First Farming Revolution?
Scientists now believe that humans settled in one place to do this ______ then they developed farming to feed the growing population. Hint: It was located in the center of their village/city.
What is worship/pray/build religious buildings/.
According to the Home Owners Loan Corporation (HOLC) this is the color given to a very desired district or neighborhood. Upper Westside of Manhattan.
What is Green?
This is a supranational organization that is headquartered in NYC, where countries around the world work diplomatically to promote peace.
1-What is the United Nations (UN)?
This centripetal force unifies a state.
Culture (language, religion, celebrations, shared history, foods, music, etc...)
These are the three main agricultural revolutions?
(Must name all three)
What are the Neolithic revolution, the Second agricultural revolution and the Green revolution?
What are GMO's?
Genetically Modified Organisms
These are two characteristics of a Red lined district.
working class; minority; immigrant; high crime; abandoned property; unreliable city services
These nation states are occupied almost entirely by a particular ethnicity.
Give example
Japan, Korea, Iceland, Egypt, China, Pakistan,
1-The process whereby regions within a state demand and gain political strength and growing autonomy at the expense of the central government.
2-Give an example.
1-Devolution
2-Basque and Catalonia in Spain, Chechnya and Ukraine in Russia, Kurdistan in Turkey/Iraq, Hong Kong and Taiwan in China.
This type of agriculture uses nutrient rich water instead of soil and can be grown vertically indoors.
What is hydroponics?
This is the reason why the US has half the number of farms today than it did 20 years ago.
What is the move from small mom and pop farms to much larger Agri-business ; the industrialization and mechanization of agriculture?
This is a legacy of Redlining neighborhoods? Hint: Video clip we watched
-property value remains low; difficult for people of color to buy or sell a home; stigma attached to neighborhood;
This is the most resent country (#193) to be formed? Hint: In Africa; broke up into two countries; currently in the news because of a continued conflict
South Sudan
Formed in the 1940s with 14 European members, the U.S., and Canada. Was designed to balance the power in Europe. Also effects trade.
What is NATO?
This method of farming occurs in developing countries and is usually only for personal use.
subsistance farming
Leaving part of the farm land fallow, using animal waste as fertilizer, starts in England, were all part of this revolution.
Green Revolution
These are two reasons why NYC is not as dense as it once was?
Expansion out from the city to the suburbs; too expensive to live;