What is the term for the latitude line at 0 degrees?
What is the Equator?
100
This is a resource that is so important that nations are willing to go to war to ensure its supply.
What is a strategic commodity?
100
This stands for Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. It is an incurable sexually transmitted disease.
What is AIDS?
100
The revolt in 1917 in which the Russian Communist Party, led by V.I. Lenin, took control of the government from the czars.
What is the Russian Revolution?
100
This is a term for a society in which people use lineages or families whose members are descended from a common ancestor to govern themselves.
What is a stateless society?
200
The earth’s revolution around the sun and its tilt account for the changing of the ________?
What are seasons?
200
This is another name for Europe due to its being a peninsula of Asia and having many peninsulas itself.
What is the "Peninsula of Peninsulas?"
200
This is the condition of the atmosphere at a particular time and location.
What is weather?
200
The Indian caste system came out from this ethnic group, which came into the subcontinent in 2000-500 BCE.
What are the Aryans?
200
Coalitions of countries joining together to reveal information and homeland security measures in airports are examples of responses to this modern problem.
What is terrorism?
300
This is the name for the central plateau of Spain.
What is Meseta?
300
This is the largest desert in the world.
What is the Sahara?
300
This extreme weather pattern occurs in South Asia.
What is a monsoon?
300
This dam is being built in China, and will likely increase trade and irrigation, but wipe out many villages.
What is the Three Gorges Dam?
300
This is the movement to create a homeland for the Jews.
What is Zionism?
400
This is a steep slope with a nearly flat plateau on top, found in South Africa.
What is an escarpment?
400
This is the region that consists of the republics of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia.
What is Transcaucasia?
400
Much of Russia and its Republics lies in this climate zone?
What is subarctic, or tundra?
400
This country in the Western Himalayas borders India and Pakistan and has been a source of dispute between the two countries.
What is Kashmir?
400
This is the largest cultural and religious influence in North Africa.
What is Islam?
500
This desert, whose name means “Empty Quarter,” is one of the most famous in Southwest Asia.
What is the Rub al Khali?
500
These are the three major rivers in South America.
What are the Orinoco, Parana and Amazon?
500
This is the grassland of Northern Tanzania called?
What is the Serengeti?
500
In Australia, this is the case in which Aboriginal people could claim land under a pastoral lease.
What is the Wik Case?
500
This is the most widely practiced religion in Europe.