Objectives & Tools
The type of region exemplified by the EU.
What is Formal?
Top layer of the earth divided into tectonic plates.
What is the Lithosphere?
Areas of early civilization where culture traits originated from.
What are culture hearths?
The reason why most of Europe has relatively mild winters.
What is the Gulf Stream/ocean currents?
The country Russia invaded in 2014.
What is Ukraine?
The size of map scale which shows a zoomed out picture of a large area.
What is small scale?
The earth sphere that includes all the water.
What is the hydrosphere?
The revolution that brought about agriculture/farming.
What is the Neolithic Revolution?
The original Indo-European language branch from which English grew.
What is Germanic?
The Russian leader who relaxed policies and implemented Glasnost and Perestroika.
Who is Gorbachev?
The super-common map projection that depicts the earth along straight lines but sacrifices accuracy, especially at the poles.
What is Mercator?
The most important factors in the Koppen climate classification system.
What are precipitation and temperature?
The kind of birth rate commonly found in Less Developed Countries.
What is high birth rate?
Three main branches of the Indo-European Language family.
What are Romance, Germanic, & Slavic?
The Soviet agricultural policy that confiscated landholdings and resources.
What is collectivization?
The angular distance of the International Date Line from the Prime Meridian.
What is 180*?
The biome marked by permafrost and lack of trees.
What is Tundra?
The theory that argues that the rich-poor gap present today is a relic of the worldwide economic pattern established during the Industrial Revolution and by the forces of colonialism.
What is dependency theory?
The pattern of land use that sought to create "neo-Europes" in lands similar to those found in the old country.
What is settler colonization?
A major piece of leverage Russia holds over its neighbors.
What is control of natural gas availability and pricing?
The type of "location" you are providing when you describe something as "north of the park."
What is relative location?
The term that describes the total number of plant and animal species present in a place.
What is biodiversity?
The geologic event that coincided with the agricultural revolution.
What is the retreat of glacial ice?
The religious affiliation of the Moors.
What is Islam?
The post WWII alliance of the Soviet Union and its eastern European satellites.
What is the Warsaw Pact?