Get in the zone
These dry climate zones are found in Mexico and parts of South America
What are semi-arid and desert?
This early civilization settled mostly in Guatemala, but recent mapping technology has revealed that they also lived in Southern Mexico. They are also known for their calendar and the concept of "0."
Who were the Maya?
This continent could be called the "peninsula of peninsulas."
What is Europe?
While many people move to cities for the opportunities, this is one common problem faced in urban areas.
What are overpopulation, unemployment, crime, or environmental damage?
This industry is strong in Russia and the former Soviet Republics, but it has also lead to land disputes and wealth disparity.
What is the oil industry?
This climate extends from Southern Spain and France through Italy to Greece and other parts of the Balkan Peninsula.
What is Mediterranean?
What is agriculture?
This mountain range is West of the Mississippi and stretch into Canada.
What are the Rockies.
While industrialization has vastly improved the economic situation of many countries, this is it's devastating consequence.
What is pollution?
In a market economy, this is the name for the people who buy and use goods, versus those who produce them.
What is the consumer?
Whilemuch of the United States is in a more temperate zone like semiarid or humid continental, Hawaii and Southern Florida are in this major climate zone.
What is tropical?
Cortes landed and claimed New Spain, now Mexico, for the Spanish Crown. But Brazil was colonized by this much smaller European country.
What is Portugal?
This term refers to the basic systems needed to support life in populated areas. It includes things like roads, bridges, sewers, and the electrical grid.
What is infrastructure?
This is the term for when the spread of a city’s population over a wider geographical area leads to poorly planned development.
What is urban sprawl?
Timber, oil, silver, and coal are all examples of these.
What are natural resources?
This region of Russia is home to more than 30 million people and consists of mostly tundra, including permafrost.
What is Siberia?
These peoples lived and stewarded the land we call North America for centuries and while displaced by European settlers, continue to live and contribute ; bonus point if you know what THEY called North America.
Who are indigenous people/American Indiand/Native Americans? (any are correct)
This mountain range is sandwiched between the Black and Caspian Seas.
What are the Caucuses?
This is the name of the book on which the Bolsheviks based their form of government, with which they replaced the monarchy of the Tsars in Russia after the violent revolution of October 1917 (include title and author).
What is the Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx?
This region, being rich in coal, helped start the industrial revolution which changed the world economy forever.
What is Northern Europe (Specifically Great Britain)?
This half of the planet earth is home to the majority of its human population.
What is the Northern Hemisphere?
This is the name of the island, which is home to the modern nations of Haiti and the Dominican Republic, where Columbus landed in 1492.
What is Hispanola?
This mode of transporting goods connects Moscow with the far eastern coast of Russia.
What is the Trans-Siberian Railroad?
The fall of the "command economy" (communist government) in Russia led to this powerful group of people to take a lot of the control over the economy.
What is organized crime, or the mob?
This industry is built most on service workers, rather than on goods or stocks traded in a "marketplace." Parts of every region benefit from it.
What is tourism?