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Rivers
Mountains
Seas
Deserts
Misc.
100
The Tigris and Euphrates helped to sustain this first civilization.
What is Mesopotamia
100
Mountains offer this, when enemies are out to get a country
What is protection
100
The difference between an ocean and sea is
What is an ocean is larger.
100
The land of deserts is
What is arid/dry
100
This geographic feature is surrounded on three sides by water.
What is peninsula
200
China's early civilizations were sustained by these two rivers.
What is Huang/Yellow and the Yangtze
200
Mountains lack this because of the rocky soil
What is arable/fertile land
200
The Mediterrnean Sea promoted ________ for the regions around it.
What is cultural diffusion
200
The Sahara desert often acted as a ________ to civilizations as crossing the desert is often difficult.
What is barrier
200
This geographic feature has low elevation and is great for farming and travel.
What is a plain
300
Early civilizations formed in river valleys because they provided three sources. Name them.
What is water source, farmland, and trade
300
Mountains create barriers which limits
What is cultural diffusion
300
Most nations who live near a sea often have powerful
What is navies
300
This desert contributed to the very ethnocentric and isolated China.
What is Gobi Desert
300
This feature has a high elevation with an area of flat surface at the top.
What is plateau
400
Daily Double! The use of terracing is an example of a society's reaction to __________
What is geographic conditions/mountains.
400
Which sea located south of Europe and North of Africa?
What is Mediteranean
400
The Gobi Desert is ________ of China
What is north
400
Panama is this type of geographic feature? Why?
What is isthmus because its a narrow strip of land
500
Daily double! Which geographic feature did the earliest civilizations in Egypt, India and China have in common?
What is a) mountains that provided protection b)rivers that increased the fertility of the land by flooding c) tropical climates that included monsoons
500
Mountains have affected the history of many regions by ___________
What is isolating people and cultures
500
Which sea is north of South America and south of North America?
What is Carribean Sea
500
Daily Double what is the cause of the constant growth of the Sahara Desert?
What is overgrazing or over feeding of animals
500
Antartica is known for being a ________ because of its frozen, unthawed land
What is tundra