Unit 1
GPS stands for this
What is Global Positioning System?
A common map for in the Middle Ages in Europe was this
What are the T and O?
Most ancient of Mesopotamia is in this modern country
What is Iraq?
This the term used to describe a journey with a religious purpose
What is a pilgrimage?
This is the longest canal in the world without locks
What is the the Suez Canal?
Strabo is known for saying this "defines the contours of the land and gives it its shape”
What is the sea?
This is another name for the zero degree meridian that runs through Greenwich, England.
What is the Prime Meridian?
This is the largest ethnic group in the world that does not have a recognized national homeland.
Who are the Kurds?
Saudi Arabia is the location of two cities that Muslims consider holy
What are Mecca and Medina?
This is the longest canal in the world
What is the Grand Canal of China?
The crew abourd this spacecraft captured the image of the earth that has come to be called the Blue Marble?
What is the Apollo?
This is the process for transferring locations on the earth to the surface of a map
What is Projection?
This geographic feature begins in Turkey and continues to Kenya
What is the Great Rift Valley?
These two continents meet in Turkey
What are Europe and Asia?
These 3 countries intersect in Tunisia?
What are Africa, Europe and Islamic?
71% of the earth is covered in this
What is water?
The development of this in the first quarter of the 1900s increased the demand for road maps
What is an automobile?
The name Palestine is based on the name of this group
Who are the Phillistines?
Armenia is located between these two seas
What are the Black and the Caspian?
This is the western limit of the Mediterranean Sea
What is the Strait of Gibraltar?
The study of how physical geography impacts human activity and how human activity affects physical geography is called?
What is human geography?
The military of this country had the goal of mapping the entire world during the Cold War.
What is the Soviet Union?
The gov’t of this country used chemical weapons against the Kurdish city of Halabja in 1988
What is Iraq?
On this peninsula did Winston Churchill propose and Allied assault during World War I or the Great War
What is the Gallipoli?
Winston Churchill called these two countries “the soft underbelly” of Europe
What are Sicily and Italy?