Basics of Geography
This is the word given to a chain of islands.
What is an archipelago.
This type of government system has a political leader who is also a religious leader.
What is a theocracy
This city in Israel is holy to all 3 major monotheistic religions.
What is Jerusalem
What is Apartheid.
This river in India is sacred to Hindus.
What is the Ganges
Subsistence agriculture is considered to be in this sector of the economy.
What is the primary sector.
A population pyramid with this shape indicates a country with a low level of development.
What is a triangle?
This is the largest hot desert in the world.
What is the Sahara.
This meeting took place in Europe in 1884 to divide Africa among European countries.
What is the Berlin Conference
Early civilizations tended to develop near this type of physical feature.
What are rivers.
In a constitutional monarchy, a leader's powers are limited by this type of document.
What is a constitution?
These two bodies of water are connected by the Suez canal.
What are the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea.
Long, thin valleys that formed in Africa as continental plates pulled apart.
What are rift valleys.
This mountain range contains Mt. Everest, the highest point on Earth.
What are the Himalayan Mountains.
This term describes the large variations in temperatures that occur on the interior regions of continents.
What is continentality.
This supranational organization is dedicated to international law, economic development, social progress, and human rights.
What is the United Nations.
Muslims must make a pilgrimage to this holy city at least once during their lifetimes.
What is Mecca.
The Nile River flows north through Sudan and empties into the Mediterranean Sea on the coast of this North African country.
What is Egypt?
The United States was involved in wars in both Korea and Vietnam to stop the spread of this.
What is communism.
The location of a place in relation to other places is known as
What is relative location.
The exchange of goods, culture, disease, and people from the old world to the new world was known as this.
What is The Columbian Exchange.
These two groups in Southwest Asia are considered by some to be stateless nations.
Who are the Kurds and Palestinians.
Overgrazing, over farming, drought, and erosion all lead to this problem in Sub-Saharan African.
What is desertification.
What type of resistance did Mahatma Gandhi teach?