Basic geography M

Question 1

Madrassa

Answer 1

School, especially one that teaches the Islamic religion

Question 2

Magma

Answer 2

Stream of soft, nearly molten rock

Question 3

Magna Carta

Answer 3

Document that limited the English Kings power

Question 4

Majlis

Answer 4

Iranian legislature

Question 5

Majority

Answer 5

More than half

Question 6

Malaria

Answer 6

Why threatening disease spread by mosquitoes and caused by parasites

Question 7

Manorialism

Answer 7

In medieval Europe the economic relationship between the Lord and the peasants who works for him

Question 8

Mantle

Answer 8

Thick, Rocky later around Earth’s core

Question 9

Maori

Answer 9

The original inhabitants of New Zealand and the cook islands

Question 10

Maritime

Answer 10

Having to do with navigation or shipping on the sea

Question 11

Maritime climate

Answer 11

Climate that is year-round with mild winters cool

Summers

Question 12

Market

Answer 12

Organized way for producers and consumers to trade goods and services

Question 13

Market economy

Answer 13

Economy in which individual consumers and producers make all economic decisions

Question 14

Marshall plan

Answer 14

An economic program initiated by the United States to help Europe recover from world war two

Question 15

Mau Mau

Answer 15

Kenyan independence movement during the 1950s

Question 16

Mechanized farming

Answer 16

Farming with machines

Question 17

Meiji restoration

Answer 17

Time period when Japan’s Emperor Meiji was returned to power

Question 18

Merchant

Answer 18

Trader

Question 19

Messiah

Answer 19

A leader chosen by God who restored the Jewish nation and helped create God’s kingdom in the world

Question 20

Microcredit

Answer 20

Small loan

Question 21

Middle latitudes

Answer 21

Areas between the high and low latitudes; also known as temperate zone

Question 22

Middle passage

Answer 22

Voyage across the Atlantic from Africa to the Americas that formed the middle leg of the triangular trade among Europe, American colonies, and Africa

Question 23

Migration

Answer 23

Movement of people from one place to another

Question 24

Military Junta

Answer 24

Committee of military leaders

Question 25

Millet

Answer 25

Self-governing religious community in the Ottoman Empire

Question 26

Millet

Answer 26

Self-governing religious community in the Ottoman Empire