Environment and Landforms
Landforms and Waterways
Physical Geography
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Business and Economics
Mapping
100
This term refers to the process of evaporation, condensation, and precipitation.
What is the water cycle?
100
A fertile spot in the desert where water is found.
What is an oasis?
100
These are the seven continents.
What are North America, South America, Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia, and Antarctica?
100
This term refers to the organized elimination of a national, political, racial, or ethnic group.
What is genocide?
100
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?
100
(Country) 15°N and 16°W
What is Senegal?
200
The removing or clearing away the trees from a forest, often for the purpose of clearing the land for use in farming or ranching.
What is deforestation?
200
A narrow body of water that connects two larger bodies of water.
What is a strait?
200
This is the second largest and second most populous continent on Earth.
What is Africa?
200
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?
200
This term is used to describe a country with a less advanced economy.
What is a developing country?
200
This country borders Libya to the east and Sudan to the north.
What is Egypt?
300
A region with a wide range of plant and animal species living in it is said to have this.
What is biodiversity?
300
A group of islands.
What is an archipelago?
300
This is the tallest mountain in Africa and the tallest free standing mountain in the world.
What is Mount Kilimanjaro?
300
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?
300
The exchange of goods and services without much government control is referred to as this.
What is an informal economy (market)?
300
Areas that are not close to cities (countryside).
What is rural?
400
A large body of water surrounded by land.
What is a lake?
400
A narrow strip of land.
What is an isthmus?
400
This largest lake in Africa is also the source of the White Nile River.
What is Lake Victoria?
400
The Defiance Campaign was a peaceful campaign whose purpose was to protest this system in Africa. This word is of Dutch-Afrikaan origin and means apartness.
What is apartheid?
400
This machine is being provided to African women via a UN program. Among other things, it helps them grind 100 pounds of peanuts in just one hour, rather than three days!
What is a multifunctional platform machine?
400
According to the map, the ethnic group Azeri is primarily located in what country?
What is Azerbaijan?
500
A deep ravine between two cliffs or encasements.
What is a canyon?
500
An area that is high in elevation and basically flat.
What is a plateau?
500
A small, compact group of mountains that is usually separated from groups of mountains or mountain chain.
Massif
500
In 1994 Nelson Mandela was elected as the first black president of this country.
What is South Africa?
500
A person who starts their own business. In the case of a small business, the "micro" prefix is often added to this word.
What is an entrepreneur?
500
A map detailing the physical features of an area in terms of elevation and gradient, or steepness of incline.
What is a topographic map?