The Prison (Physical Geography & Barriers)
This massive physical feature protects India from China but also isolates it.
What are The Himalayas?
The continent that holds the majority of the world's Cobalt.
What is Africa?
The world's most critical oil "choke point" located between Iran and Oman.
What is the Strait of Hormuz?
The metal nicknamed "Green Gold," essential for EV batteries.
What is Lithium?
Marshall says this is the driest continent on Earth (Hint: It’s not Australia).
What is Antarctica? (Common trap: people think it's Australia).
Because these flow over waterfalls, Africa struggles to transport goods cheaply.
What are Rivers (or Unnavigable Rivers)?
Russia uses this resource as a "political weapon" against Europe.
What is Natural Gas?
This man-made waterway connects the Mediterranean to the Red Sea.
What is the Suez Canal?
Australia is a superpower in this resource, used to make steel and wind turbines.
What is Iron Ore?
Solve this anagram for a European zone: CHASE NEAR GEN.
What is the Schengen Area?
Russia lacks these types of ports, forcing its navy to travel long distances.
What are Warm-Water Ports? (Essential Marshall concept!)
This region is home to the "Lithium Triangle" (Chile, Bolivia, Argentina).
What is South America?
China is building a navy to secure this sea, which it claims almost entirely.
What is the South China Sea?
The "Great Green Wall" is a project to stop desertification in this African region.
What is The Sahel?
The number of time zones at the North Pole.
What is 24? (All lines of longitude meet there).
This South American physical feature prevents Brazil from easily trading with Peru.
What are The Andes Mountains?
The extraction of this resource in the Arctic is melting the ice that protects it.
What is Oil (or Fossil Fuels)?
The "Malacca Dilemma" refers to China's fear of a blockade in this country's strait.
What is Singapore (or Malaysia/Indonesia)?
The UK wants to become the "Saudi Arabia" of this renewable energy source.
What is Wind Power?
Marshall says this country is the "Land of the Eternal Blue Sky" but is trapped between Russia and China.
What is Mongolia?
This US river system is the "greatest geopolitical advantage" in history.
What is The Mississippi River?
This "Rare Earth" mineral is controlled 80% by China.
What are Rare Earth Elements?
Turkey controls access to the Black Sea through this specific strait.
What is the Bosphorus Strait?
Why solar power in the Sahara is difficult to "Extract" to Europe.
What is Distance/Cables? (The technology to transmit electricity that far doesn't exist efficiently yet).
The only two African nations never colonized by European powers.
What are Ethiopia and Liberia?