a natural hot spring that occasionally sprays water and steam above the ground.
What is a geyser?
100
Author of the Communist Manifesto
Who is Karl Marx?
100
the time or date (twice each year) at which the sun crosses the celestial equator, when day and night are of equal length (about September 22 and March 20).
What is equinox?
100
The workers and wage-earners; the have-nots
What are the proletariats?
100
a powerful, warm, and swift Atlantic ocean current that originates at the tip of Florida, and follows the eastern coastlines of the United States and Newfoundland before crossing the Atlantic Ocean.
What is the Gulf Stream?
200
a large, flat area of land that is higher than the surrounding land
What is a plateau?
200
Soviet leader during the beginning of the Cold War who greatly oppressed his people and brought much of Europe under his influence.
Who is Josef Stalin?
200
The central religious text of Islam
What is the Qur’an?
200
The factory owners; the "haves"
What is the bourgeoisie?
200
The belieft that if one state in a region came under the influence of communism, then the surrounding countries would follow
What is domino theory?
300
a narrow body of water that connects two larger bodies of water.
What is a strait?
300
Leader of the Haitian Revolution
Who is Toussaint L'Ouverture?
300
Sudden overthrow of a government by a small group of people
What is a coup?
300
A term coined by Winston Churchill to describe the dividing line between nations under the Soviet sphere and those that were free or under the US sphere.
What is the Iron Curtain?
300
Mexico's first president of Indian heritage
Who is Benito Juarez?
400
a type of freshwater, brackish water or saltwater wetland that is found along rivers, pond, lakes and coasts.
What is a marsh?
400
Charismatic Communist leader who held different religious and ethnic groups together under one country until his death in 1980.
Who is Josip Tito?
400
a political situation that can occur when a government has no identifiable central authority
What is a power vacuum?
400
A huge slum
What is a favela?
400
Giant urban area that includes surrounding cities and suburbs
What is a megacity?
500
a group or chain of islands clustered together in a sea or ocean.
What is an archipelago?
500
Mexican priest and leader of the Mexican war for Independence
Who is Miguel Hidalgo?
500
a group of approximately 35,000 indigenous people who live in some 200–250 villages in the Amazon rainforest on the border between Venezuela and Brazil.
Who are the Yanomami?
500
A group of people who share a common culture and ancestry.
What is an ethnic group?
500
Refers to dispersed populations that moved or scattered away from their homelands, but all the while maintaining cultural ties