Map-O-Rama
Disputed Places
Cultural Characteristics
Landforms
Economics
100
The two maps on slide 10 illustrate the change that occurs if you change this element of a map.
What is scale?
100
The area circled on the map on slide 7 is this former country.
What is Yugoslavia?
100
This is a Francophone province in Canada.
What is Quebec?
100
Most of the world's active volcanoes are part of this Pacific area.
What is the Ring of Fire?
100
This highly-industrialized country has little coal and no oil; instead, it built its industry on conquest and the support of the United States.
What is Japan?
200
The map pictured on slide 11 is this type of map.
What is a thematic map?
200
A conflict between Catholics and Protestants has shaped the religious part of the dispute over this European place.
What is Northern Ireland?
200
Calypso, native to the Caribbean, is a form of this kind of art.
What is music?
200
This round-shaped lake is one of the largest in East Africa, and very different from rift lakes like Tanganyika.
What is Lake Victoria?
200
This country is the center of the world's banking industry.
What is Swtizerland?
300
This is the map projection that appears on slide 13.
What is a Mercator projection map?
300
The world's newest country broke away from this one, a country divided by the line between Muslims and non-Muslims in Africa.
What is Sudan?
300
You find floating markets, like this one pictured in slide 5, in a region colonized first by India, then by China, then by European powers.
What is southeast Asia?
300
This mountain range shown on slide 2.
What is the Great Dividing Range?
300
This major addition to the landscape enhanced shipping in the entire region shown in the blue box on the map in slide 9.
What is the Suez Canal?
400
The change to the name of the island on slide 15 occurred when this group arrived from the mainland.
Who were nationalists (anti-Communist) Chinese?
400
China has butted in to the dispute over this place on its border with South Asia.
What is Kashmir?
400
This is the name of the Russian cultural artifacts shown in slide 6.
What are matryoshka dolls?
400
This heavily-glaciated area is shown in slide 3.
What is the Canadian Shield?
400
Large coal deposits give the Western Heartland region of Europe a comparative advantage over this other European region, which must import almost all of its fossil fuels.
What is Mediterranean (Southern) Europe?
500
This big event took place between the periods shown in the two maps on slide 14, dramatically changing the map.
What is World War II?
500
The country pictured on slide 8 has been the subject of a dispute between Greece and THIS other state.
What is Turkey?
500
This is the term for a bazaar in an Arab country -- an open-air (or sometimes indoor) market in which you can buy ANYTHING.
What is a suq (or souk)?
500
This body of water, pictured on slide 4, was considerably bigger 100 years ago.
What is the Aral Sea?
500
This is the change in agricultural techniques that enabled much greater food production in much of Asia and parts of Africa.
What is the Green Revolution?