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Vocabulary
Asia
Rivers
Culture
Government
100
The theme that uses latitude and longitude.
What is location?
100
Saudi Arabia's economy depends on this.
What is oil?
100
This fertile soil is deposited near rivers.
What is silt?
100
The change in culture that is a result of getting ideas from other cultures.
What is diffusion?
100
A government ruled by a single person who controls the military and limits citizen power.
What is a dictatorship?
200
Overgrazing, planting crops on fragile land, and not replacing trees are all examples.
What is desertification?
200
Southeast Asia is located in a zone of volcanoes called this.
What is the Ring of Fire?
200
The two rivers that surround the Fertile Crescent.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
200
This type of religion worships Allah.
What is Islam?
200
A government in which a small people with wealth and power are in control.
What is an oligarchy
300
The expected weather conditions over time.
What is climate?
300
The peninsula that Turkey is located on.
What is Anatolian Peninsula?
300
The major water source for the Egyptians.
What is the Nile River?
300
An unresolved issue between Israel and the Palestinians today.
What is who should control Jerusalem?
300
The type of government in which people choose their leaders through voting.
What is a democracy?
400
An ancient Iranian water supply system that was dependent on ground water.
What is a qanat?
400
The world's highest peak, Mt. Everest is located in this mountain range.
What are the Himalayas?
400
By building dams along this river in South Asia the Chinese concern their neighbors that they will not have adequate resources.
What is the Mekong?
400
Turkey has not been accepted into the European Union because of this.
What is it's culture is too different from other European nations.
400
This type of government controls all economic resources.
What is Communist?
500
The two questions geographers use to study geography.
What is where is it located and why is it there?
500
Indonesia is an example of this, a chain of islands.
What is an archipelago?
500
This type of energy is generated from water sources.
What is hydroelectric?
500
The act of severely punishing someone because of their beliefs. (Such as during the Holocaust)
What is persecution?
500
This organization helps improve political, economic, and social conditions around the world.
What is the United Nations?