CH. 4-7 Flashcards
Which region contains the worlds largest Amazon
Latin America
Which region contains Neotropics (Tropics in W. Hemisphere)
Latin America
What is urban primacy
A city within a country that is three to four times larger than any other city in the country. (Mexico City, Caracas, Guatemala, Buenos Aires)
What is the Treaty of Tordesilla
The division of the the America’s made by the pope after the founding made by Christopher Columbus. West to Spain East to Portugal.
What is the FARC
Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia Challenge
What is the ELN
National Liberation Army – gained wealth and weapons through the drug trade
Why is urban primacy a bad thing?
Too many natural resources are concentrated into one urban center
What is maquiladora
Mexican assembly plants that line the border with the US
Where do smaller language groups exist in Latin America?
Central America, Amazon Basin, southern Chile
What is the process of integration of Latin American workers into global labor markets
Remittances
What is the average TFR for a Guatemalan woman
4 children/woman
What is the main environmental issue in Africa?
Deforestation
What are the primary biofuels in Africa and what are they being used for?
Wood and Charcoal; they’re being used for house hold energy needs such as cooking
What are the two causes of desertification in Africa?
Expansion of agriculture and overgrazing
What is transhumance?
Movement of animals
What are the three main biomes in Sub-Saharan Africa?
Tropical forests, savannas/grasslands, deserts
Who are Boko Haram
Armed Jihadist group formed in northeaster Africa who have escalated violence in north and south Africa
Which country in Sub-Saharan Africa has the largest number of IDP’s?
The Democratic Republic of the Congo at 3 million
Who are the apartheid?
Official policy of racial segregation that shaped relations in S. Africa for ~ 50 years
What are the trade languages used in Sub-Saharan Africa?
Swahili and Hausa
Where is HIV/AIDS thought to have originated from?
In the forests of the Congo from the crossover of chimpanzees to humans
Where was the Aswan Dam completed and what has it done for North Africa?
It was completed along the Nile River south of Cairo, Egypt and has increased storage capacity, made more water available for agriculture
What is included in the Maghreb?
Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia and is dominated near the Mediterranean coastline by Atlas Mountains
What is Mesopotamia best known for?
One of the first recorded big cities in modern Iraq to which contained Eridu and Ur
Why is overgrazing an issue in the Middle East?
The region is too dry to upkeep trees and and browsing made by sheep and goats
What is salinization
The buildup of toxins and salt in the soil
What are the major environmental issues in the middle east?
Deforestation, overgrazing, salinization, and coastal pollution
What are the primary types of agriculture practiced in the middle east?
Dry farming, oasis/irrigation, and the use of exotic rivers
Where do the dry climates take place in the Middle East?
Dry Climates dominate along western Morocco to easter Iran and provide little precipitation
Where do the mild midlatitudes dominate in the Middle East?
Mediterranean climates dominate along the basin and Black Sea
What is the issue of hydropolitics in the Middle East?
It is the interplay of water resource issues and politics raising tensions between countries that share drainage basins.
What is the dominant Muslim religion in Middle East?
Sunni Islam by 73%
What is the reason for the east Mediterranean being considered as the “hearth of Judeo-Christianity?
Jewish religion lies deep in Israel, while Christianity was born along the eastern Mediterranean
What is a medina and what is it dominated by?
a walled cored in traditional Islamic city dominated by the central mosque and its associated religious, educational, and administrative functions
Which Muslim religion is the Qom Mosque visited by?
Shiites
