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100
These are the two most common general purpose maps.
What are political and physical maps?
100
The first permanent human settlement occurred between these two rivers.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates River Valleys?
100
The Industrial Revolution began in this country.
What is Great Britain (UK)?
100
This country is the largest in land size.
What is Russia?
100
The way of life of people who share similar beliefs and customs is known as this.
What is culture?
200
This type of graph shows changes over a period of time.
What is a line graph?
200
About 80% of Israel's people are of this religious faith.
What are Jews?
200
Democracy was born in this country.
What is Greece?
200
This country has the most people living in it.
What is China?
200
Identify the three branches of government in the U.S.
What are the legislative, executive, and judicial branches?
300
North, South, East, and West make up these type of directions.
What are cardinal directions?
300
The people of the "Middle East" (N. Africa and SW Asia) are of this ethnic and religious group.
What Arabs and Muslims?
300
This was the basic economic system of the Middle Ages.
What is "feudalism"?
300
This country lies both in Europe and Asia?
What is Turkey?
300
Identify the three major monotheistic religions of the world.
What are Christianity, Islam, and Judaism?
400
Identify four of the five parts of a map.
What are compass rose, scale, grid system, title, and key or legend?
400
This group of mountains separate the South Asian subcontinent from the rest of Asia.
What are the Himalaya Mountains?
400
During WWII, Germany, Italy, and Japan made up this alliance.
What is the Axis powers?
400
This country is the closest to a pure command economy?
What is North Korea?
400
Identify the three of the four types of economies.
What are market, traditional, command, and mixed economies?
500
Identify the lines that run east and west of the prime meridian. Identify the lines that run north and south of the equator.
What are longitude and latitude lines?
500
China's "one country, two systems" refers to this.
What are communism and capitalism?
500
This leader introduced the reforms of "glasnost" and "perestroika" which led to the fall of communism.
Who is Mikhail Gorbachev?
500
These two countries were the only African nations to never be colonized.
What are Liberia and Ethiopia?
500
Identify the "Five Themes of Geography".
What are location, place, HE interaction, movement, and region?