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Site and Situation
Geography
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Economy
Economic activities
100
New York City is this kind of site.
What is a harbor site?
100
This is a steep cliff between higher and lower land.
What is an escarpment?
100
Africa is a large level plateau with this on the edges.
What are escarpments?
100
Africa is the world's largest producer of this natural resource.
What are diamonds?
100
These activities involve extraction of raw materials from the earth.
What is primary activities.
200
Paris, Hong Kong and Singapore are this kind of site.
What is an island site.
200
This is when messages are transmitted orally from one generation to another.
What is oral tradition?
200
These countries have no natural outlets such as a coastline or river for trade and transportation routes.
What are landlocked countries.
200
This type of farming is when a family grows just enough food for their family to live on.
What is subsistence farming?
200
This economic activity involves supplying goods and services to consumers and businesses.
What is tertiary activity?
300
Rome, Athens and Jerusalem are this kind of site.
What is a hilltop site?
300
This is a fracture in the Earth's surface that widens over time.
What is a rift?
300
This is a large island country off the eastern coast of Africa.
What is Madagascar?
300
This is a method of farming used in the rain-forest is where trees are cut down and brush burned to clear the land for farming.
What is slash and burn farming?
300
This economic activity involves the transformation of raw materials into goods.
What are secondary activities?
400
Damascus, Syria and Wiwa, Egypt are this kind of site.
What is an oasis site?
400
This line of latitude divides Africa in half.
What is the Equator?
400
Most of Africa is in the _____________ latitudes.
What is low latitudes?
400
This is when someone doesn't have a permanent home and they have animals such as goats, sheep or cattle.
What is nomadic herding?
400
Examples of work force for this activity: farmers, coal miners and hunters
What is primary activities.
500
This is one of the two confluence sites we learned about in class.
What is Pittsburg, PA or Khartoum, Sudan
500
`This is the tallest mountain in Africa.
What is Mt. Kilimanjaro?
500
This is a type of grassland located in tropical wet and dry climates.
What is Savannah?
500
This is a form of commercial farming that employs many people where crops are grown for profit. (cash crops)
What is plantation farming?
500
Examples of work force for this activity: waitresses, nurses, accountants, pilots
What is tertiary activites.