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| A physical map shows | landform and waterforms |
| A political map shows | features humans have created |
| An isthmus is | a narrow strip of land connecting two larger pieces of land |
| A peninsula is | land surrounded by water on three sides |
| A plateau is | a flat area of land with steep sides |
| Longest chain of mountains; home to Lake Titicaca and Atacama Desert | Andes |
| Two mountain ranges in Mexico | Sierra Madres Occidental in the west, and Sierra Madre Oriental in the east |
| LARGEST river is | Amazon |
| LONGEST river is | Nile |
| The Atacama Desert is in | Chile |
| Three factors that determine climate are | elevation, lataitude, air/wind currents |
| Why was the Panama Canal built? | To shorten the trip from the Atlantic to Pacific Oceans |
| Who was the U.S. president that negotiated to get the canal built | President Theodore Roosevelt |
| The two main problems in building the canal were | Malaria/Yellow Fever and elevation |
| What did they do to solve the elevation problem in building the canal? | Built a series of locks |
| How do locks work? | Raise or lower level of water depending upon the elevation ahead |
| What is a democracy? | govenrment run by the people |
| What is a dictatorship? | A government run by one individual who has complete control |
| List some reasons why Puerto Rico should remain a commonwealth and NOT become the 51st state | They would have to pay U.S. taxes, they already have U.S. protection, they would be the poorest state, they fear they would have to learn English |
| To immigrate is to move | INTO a country |
| To migrate is to move | OUT of a country |
| A refugee is an | immigrant forced out of their country |
| Why might an immigrant be FORCED out of their country? | war, religious/political persecution, famine or an epidemic |
| Why do MOST people come to the U.S.? | Jobs/Economic reasons |
| What is Panagaea? | Earth's only continent 225 million years ago |
| The Earth's largest desert is | Sahara |
| Where is the Earth's largest desert located? | Africa |
| What is desertification? | A process by which a desert spreads |
| How is desertification caused? | Drought, overgrazing, and overuse of the land for farming |
| A savanna is | flat grasslands with scattered trees and shrubs |
| The difference between arid and semiarid is | They are both dry, but arid is drier than semiarid |
| A tropical climate has | a 6 month rainy season with the rest of the year dry |
| An equatorial climate | has 50-60 inches of rain per year |
| Imperialism or Colonialism is | when one country takes over another in order to exploit their labor and natural resources |
| What is apartheid? | Laws enacted in South Africa to create complete separation of the races |
| What is a Boer? | A Dutch farmer |
| What European group settled South Africa first in the 1400's? | The Dutch |
| Who fought in the First and Second Boer Wars? | The Dutch and British |
| Who was Nelson Mandela? | The first black president of South Africa |
| What did the white government do to Nelson Mandela? | Put him in prison for 27 years |
| What was Nelson Mandela goal? | To put an end to apartheid |
| Name a few apartheid laws. | Passbook, separate facilities, no inter-racial dating, etc. |
| List the three religions born in the Middle East in order. | Judaism, Christianity, Islam |
| Who is the savior in Christianity? | Jesus Christ |
| Who is the prophet in Islam? | Muhammad |
| Who is the founder of Judaism? | Abraham |
| What is Lake Titicaca and where is it located? | It is the highest lake in the world located on the borders of Peru and Bolivia in the Andes Mountains |
| Where are the Andes Mountains located? | West coast of South America, running north to south from Venezuela to Argentina |
| Where is the Yucatan Peninsula? | Southeast Mexico |
| What is a gulf? | A body of water surrounded by land on three sides |
| What is a lake? | A body of water surrounded by water on all sides |
| What is a strait? | A narrow strip of water connecting two larger bodies of water |
| What is slavery? | When someone buys another person for labor purposes, and can also sell them |
| What is the Triangular Trade? | A three-part cycle of trade between Europe, Africa and the New World |
| Describe the first leg of the Triangular Trade. | Europe to Africa: pots, pans, guns, alcohol, horses |
| Describe the second leg of the Triangular Trade | Africa to the New World: slaves |
| Describe the third leg of the Triangular Trade | New World to Europe: coffee, rum, sugar, tobacco |
| Where did most of the slaves come from? | West Central Africa |
| What are tectonic plates? | Pieces of the Earth's crust |
| What do movement of tectonic plates cause? | Earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunamis, mountain ranges |
| What was the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade? | It was a 400 year period when Africans were bought and sold by Europeans and sent to the New World for labor purposes. |
| Where and in what year did apartheid begin? | South Africa; 1948 |
