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Geography
Greenhouse Gas Effect
"New World"
European Exploration
Mixed Review
100

What kind of map shows the geographical features of a specific area? 

What is a physical map? 
100

What is the Greenhouse Gas Effect? 


Gases in Earth's atmposhere that trap heat from the sun.

100

What areas are considered the "New World"? 

The Americas or land that European countries explored

100

What happened in the middle of the 1300s? Before this European nations were successful in isolation. 

European exploration began. 

100

What kind of map represents national boundaries such as states and countries? 

What is a political map? 

200

What is a hemisphere?

What is half the earth?

200

What are two possible causes of the Greenhouse Gas Effect? 

1. Burning fossil fuels 

2. Farming 

3. Deforestation 

200
True or False: France was the FIRST country to explore the "New World". 

False

200

What was the overall motivation for exploration amongst the European countries? 

What is riches, knowledge, money, and power? 

200

What geographical region contains the states Hawaii and Alaska? 

The Non-contiguous states region
300
How many hemispheres are there? 
What is 4?
300

What is an example of a human-made change? 

1. Bridges

2. Buildings 

3. Sidewalks 

4. Roads 

(NYC)

300

What are two types of inventions that helped make travel safer and more affordable? 

What are: 

1. Compass

2. Maps 

3. Better sails

4. Hourglass

5. Astrolabe

300

What two countries were apart of the Treaty of Tordesillas? 

Who is Spain and Portugal? 
300

Why did European countries need to seek new trade routes? 

What is to make travel safer and more affordable? 

400

What is an example of a peninsula? 

What is Florida? 

400

What does an increase of the Greenhouse Effect cause? 

What is Global Warming? 

400

Name one country that explored the "New World". 

1. Spain 

2. Portugal

3. France 

4. England

400

What is the Line of Demarcation? 

A line that divided the world into ½ for Spain and Portugal to claim. 

400

What is the Prime Meridian? 

An imaginary line that splits the Earth into the Western and Eastern hemisphere. 
500

What is the Equator? 

An imaginary line on the Earth that splits the world into the Northern and Southern hemisphere. 

500

What is an example of a Greenhouse gas? 

1. Carbon Dioxide 

2. Methane 

500

What is the Northwest Passage? 

What is a potential shortcut through the newly found continent of Northwest America to Asia?

500

What is the Treaty of Tordesillas? 

What is it moved the line of demarcation west a little bit.

500

Name one European explorer. 

1. John Cabot

2. Sir Frances Drake 

3. Peter Stuyvesant

4. Giovanni da Verrazzano

5. Samuel de Champlain

6. Jacques Cartier