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100

This type of map shows mountains, rivers and elevations.

What is a physical map?

100

More than 90% of the people in this country live near the Nile River

What is Egypt?

100

The largest hot desert in the world

What is the Sahara Desert?

100

This people group use reindeer sleds and snowmobiles for transportation

Who are the Sami people?

100

This trade route connected East Asia with southwest Asia, Europe and Africa.

What is the Silk Road?

200

A piece of land almost entirely surrounded by water but connected to the mainland on one side

What is a peninsula?

200
These two countries in the Mediterranean have been in conflict for centuries.  (Hint: One of the many stories about this conflict contains a woman and a horse)

What are Greece and Turkey? (Greece and Troy)

200

These two rivers are vital to the Middle East.

What are the Tigris and Euphrates?

200
This people group does not have their own homeland

Who are the Kurds?

200

This city is considered holy in Islam, Judaism and Christianity

What is Jerusalem?

300

A long, deep, narrow body of water that reaches far inland

What is a fjord?

300

These two countries are located on the Iberian peninsula

What are Spain and Portugal?

300

This mountain range stretches across most of Central Europe.

What are the Alps?

300

The largest populations of this people group are found in Algeria and Morocco. An example are the Taureg.

Who are the Berbers?

300

The region where Asia, Europe and Africa meet

What is the Middle East?

400
An area of the Earth's surface with similar characteristics

What is a region?

400

This African country has a flag very similar to the United States and named their capital after a U.S. president

What is Liberia? (Monrovia after James Monroe)

400

Dr. Ferdinand de Lessop created this "shortcut" that runs between Africa and Asia.

What is the Suez Canal?
400
This people group used their access to Mediterranean shipping routes to engage in illegal activities.

Who are the Berber people?

400

This is considered the natural boundary between Europe and Asia

What are the Ural Mountains?

500

A ring-shaped island, coral reef or series of islets that encircles a lagoon

What is an atoll?

500

These are the only two countries that span both Europe and Asia.

What are Russia and Turkey?

500

The invisible division between the Koreas

What is the 38th parallel line of latitude?

500

This people group lives at the foot of the Bandiagara Escarpment in West Africa.

Who are the Dogon people?

500

This is becoming more important because melting ice is creating more shipping route options

What is the Arctic?