Major Landforms
This is the world’s longest river.
What is the Nile?
This climate is hot and humid year-round near the Equator.
What is tropical?
Most big cities are built near these features for trade and water.
What are rivers or coastlines?
Oil, coal, and natural gas are examples of this type of resource.
What are nonrenewable resources?
This natural event often destroyed crops in Mesopotamia.
What is flooding?
The study of Earth’s land, water, and how humans interact with them.
What is geography?
This massive mountain range separates India from China.
What are the Himalayas?
Winters are very cold and summers are warm in this climate zone.
What is continental?
This physical feature can protect civilizations but also isolate them.
What are mountains?
Sunlight, wind, and forests are examples of this type of resource.
What are renewable resources?
This desert in Africa is one of the largest in the world.
What is the Sahara?
The imaginary line dividing the Earth into Northern and Southern Hemispheres.
What is the Equator?
A dry, sandy region with little rain.
What is a desert?
This climate is known for dry summers and short rainy winters.
What is Mediterranean?
Ancient Egypt depended on the yearly flooding of this river
What is the Nile?
This country is known for huge oil reserves in the Middle East.
What is Saudi Arabia?
Harsh winters and isolation make farming difficult in this climate zone.
What is polar/tundra?
The Amazon rainforest is found on this continent.
What is South America?
This canyon in the United States is one of the deepest in the world.
What is the Grand Canyon?
This polar region has frozen ground called permafrost. (cold desert)
What is tundra?
We live in this climate zone.
What is the temperate climate zone?
this precious metal made South Africa wealthy but also caused conflict.
What is gold?
Japan faces this natural disaster often because it is on a tectonic boundary.
What are earthquakes/tsunamis?
The resource trading game (with beads) showed this important concept about global survival.
What is uneven distribution of resources?
The Andes Mountains are on this continent.
What is South America?
Seasonal winds that bring heavy rainfall in South Asia.
What is a monsoon?
Fertile soil created by rivers is called this.
What is silt?
When countries exchange goods they cannot produce themselves, it’s called this.
What is trade?
Lack of these can stop civilizations from thriving.
What are natural resources?
This is the long-term average of temperature and precipitation in a region.
What is climate?