Ecology & Environmentalism
This term refers to the process of evaporation, condensation, and precipitation.
What is the water cycle?
This term refers to having a strong sense of loyalty and pride towards one's country or nation.
What is nationalism?
25 of the 30 poorest countries in the world are located here.
Where is Africa?
This is a system in which one country rules over one or more colonies, controlling trade with those colonies for their own economic benefit.
What is colonialism?
In 1492, he "discovered" the New World, beginning the Age of Exploration and launching a new era of colonialism.
Who was Columbus.
This is the gradual wearing away of Earth’s surface by the action of wind, water, ice, and gravity.
What is erosion?
This is a political unit that controls a particular territory. It has a defined territory, a permanent population, a sovereign government, and is recognized by other states.
What is a state?
This term is used to describe a country with a less advanced economy.
What is a developing country?
This is the second phase of European colonialism in which states sought colonies for resources necessary for industrialization, outlets for overpopulation, and markets for their goods.
What is imperialism?
This was a conference held by European countries held in Germany from 1884 to 1885. It was at this conference that the major European powers divided up Africa between themselves.
What was the Berlin Conference?
Generating electricity and controlling the flow of water on a river in order to prevent flooding are the two main reasons these are built. There is a large one found in Egypt!
What is a dam?
This is a a sovereign state, or country, whose people mostly share a common identity.
What is a nation-state?
The exchange of goods and services without much government control is referred to as this.
What is an informal economy (market)?
This term refers to the rapid colonization of Africa by European powers after the Berlin Conference in 1884-85.
What is The Scramble for Africa?
This was the division of British controlled India into four independent countries: India, Pakistan, Ceylon, and Burma. Between 12 and 18 million people were displaced, and nearly one million people died as a result of this event.
What was the Partition of India?
A region with a wide range of plant and animal species living in it is said to have this.
What is biodiversity?
This term means possessing supreme or independent political power.
What is sovereignty?
Described by having a high level of economic growth, advanced technology, strong infrastructure (like roads and communication systems), and a high standard of living for its citizens.
What is developed country?
This is the action or process of a state withdrawing from a former colony, leaving it independent.
What is decolonization?
This was the secret agreement made by France and the British on how to divide up the lands controlled by the Ottomans when the First World War came to an end.
What was the Sykes-Picot Agreement?
This water source in Asia is shrinking due to diverting water for irrigation practices such as cotton growth.
What is the Aral Sea?
These political constructs are often created through agreements, conquests, or colonization to define territorial boundaries and sovereignty.
What is border?
A measure of a country's overall progress in three key areas: health (life expectancy), education (years of schooling), and Per Capita GDP.
What is the HDI (Human Development Index)?
This was a policy or system of segregation or discrimination on grounds of race in South Africa.
What was Apartheid?
A decades-long standoff between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, characterized by political tension, military rivalry, and the threat of nuclear war, but without direct large-scale combat between the two superpowers
What is the Cold War?