U4-Boundaries/Wars
This is the most resent country (#193) to be formed? Hint: In Africa; broke up into two countries
South Sudan
Our earliest ancestors used these for protection against wild animals and invaders.
What are walls?
This is the term used to describe bridges, roads, hospitals, schools, and other structures used to support society
What is infrastructure?
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, Monoco
1-A stateless people
2-Give an example
Kurds, Taiwan, Cherokee (Native Americans), Palestinians, Catalonians,
This is another name for a cold war
Indirect or proxy war.
This method of farming occurs in developing countries and is usually mostly for personal use.
subsistance farming
This is the name of a practice where you only grow one type of crop
What is monoculture?
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;
These people were forced (wars/natural disasters) to relocate to a different country.
What is a refugee?
This force unifies a state.
HINT: (Please be careful with spelling)
centripetal force
The manmade destruction of arable land?
What is deforestation
This is a type of farming done with enhanced mineral water instead of the traditional method involving soil
What is hydroponics?
This is the real reason why there is a giant gap in the manhattan skyline (hint: not involving bedrock)
What is economics? (e.g. easy access to businesses)
1-193 members by 2012 and has lasted for more than 65 years.
2-Where (city) is it's headquarters (main building) located?
1-United Nations (UN)
2-NYC
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.
Once rainforest are cleared, this form of agriculture is most frequently introduced?
cattle farming; ranching; raising animals
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?
These are the differences between how American cities and European cities are designed
What is:
Higher density, greater walkability, lack of suburbs, wealthy near center, greater value on ground floors (reverse for American cities)
Give example of a nation state. You must explain your reasonings
Japan, Korea, Iceland, Egypt, China, Pakistan,
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?
These are two characteristics of the second agricultural revolution
What are:
Starting in England, land being unused, redistribution of ownership, improved farming techniques, technological advances, increased productivity and crop yields, moving away from subsistence farming
What are GMO's?
Genetically Modified Organisms
What are the criteria for a megacity, and what is an example of one?
What is a population greater than 10 million and central importance to the country?
E.g. Mexico City, Tokyo, etc we will know