Human Geography
The most important natural resource required to sustain civilizations.
What is Water?
Mountain range that contains the Mt Everest, the tallest mountain in the world.
What is the Himalayas?
Monsoons in East Asia occur during this season.
What is Summer?
This Country has the highest population.
What is China?
The level of wealth, goods, and necessities available
What is the Standard of Living
Industrial Revolution ushered in a new age of THIS in the world’s history. As the focus shifted from agricultural production to industrial production, people began moving to cities in large numbers.
What is Urbanization?
This is the longest river in the world.
What is the Nile River?
Similar to hurricanes, this tropical storm uses warm water and humid air to gain strength.
What is a Typhoon?
This Country has the second largest population.
What is India?
An economic system where the government tries to stay out of the way of businesses and there is a great variety of goods and services for consumers.
What is Capitalism?
The movement of people from place to place
What is Migration?
This is the second tallest mountain in the world.
What is K2?
This long, high sea wave is usually caused by tectonic plate activity.
What is a Tsunami?
Located in Northern Africa this country is home to the Nile River and is known as the cradle of civilization.
What is Egypt?
This term is used to describe countries having more technology and manufacturing, such as the United States and Canada.
What are Developed Countries?
The number of people living on a square mile or square kilometer of land.
What is Population Density?
Covering over 9,200,000 square kilometers (about the size of China or the US) this is the largest hot sand desert in the world.
What is the Sahara Desert?
Occurs when a patch of land becomes a desert by force because many mountain ranges prevent plants from growing.
What is the Rain Shadow effect?
This region in Africa separates countries in the North and countries below the Sahara Desert.
What is the Transition Zone?
Habit and custom determine the rules for all economic activity. Individuals are not free to make decisions based on what they would like to have. Instead, their behavior is defined by the customs of their elders and ancestors
What is a Traditional Economy
Member of a people having no permanent abode, and who travel from place to place to find fresh pasture for their livestock.
Who are Nomads?
This desert in Southwestern Xinjiang in Northwest China is bound by the Kunlun Mountains to the south, the Pamir Mountains to the west, the Tian Shan range to the north, and the Gobi Desert to the east.
What is the Taklamakan Desert?
Most of Sout East Asia has this type of climate.
What is Tropical?
This country in south east Asia is an archipelago made up of over 7,000 islands.
What is the Philippines?
Period of social and economic change that transforms a human group away from an agrarian society. A great indicator of a country's economic development.
What is Industrialization?