Unit 1(Basics)
What tool utilizes a key and scale to understand and interpret the world?
Maps
What famous land form played a role in the U.S. being a global power in producing oil
Great Plains
What is a chain of islands called
Archipelago
a series of conflicts from 1618 to 1648, primarily fought in the Holy Roman Empire that began as a religious struggle between Catholic and Protestant states but evolved into a broader struggle for European political power
Thirty Year War
A lake in southern Russia that is the deepest lake in the world
Lake Baikal
How do physical processes reshape earth's landforms through?
Erosion
What area was a main target for settlement in North Americas early years
Coastlines
What country has the most resources in South America?
Brazil
Mountain range forming the natural border between Spain and France
The Pyrenes
Era that started with the creation of the USSR
Soviet Era
what is NOT a common government in the common world?
Market Economy
What was the reason for Westward Expansion
For more land and resources like gold and coal
What event was it called when large numbers of crops, animals, and diseases were switched between Europe, Africa, and the Americas
Columbian Exchange
Human made waterway through land for boats and ships
A Canal
Forms part of the geographical boundary between Europe and Asia
Ural Mt
Ethnocentrism is ___
Judging one's culture
What happens to precipitation as you go from east to west in the U.S.
Precipitation decreases and picks back up when you reach California
What event was it when Continents on either side of the Atlantic Ocean exchanged raw materials, goods, and people who had been captured and enslaved.
Triangular Trade
A major 16th-century European religious movement that challenged the authority and practices of the Roman Catholic Church, leading to the creation of various Protestant churches
Reformation
Many moved abroad or within the region due to conflicts and economic hardship. (ex. Turkmenistan & Uzbekistan)
Collapse of Soviet Union
What four things do maps distort?
Shapes, areas, distances, and directions
What three worlds met in the New World
Europeans, Africans, and Indigenous
This language blends Spanish, English, and West African languages
Patois (Pa-TWAH)
What is the major European river flowing from the Swiss Alps, through Germany and the Netherlands, to the North Sea.
Rhine River
the process of consolidating individual landholdings and labor into larger, collectively owned and state-controlled farms
Collectivization