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CH. 4-7 Flashcards

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1
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Which region contains the worlds largest Amazon

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Latin America

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Which region contains Neotropics (Tropics in W. Hemisphere)

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Latin America

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What is urban primacy

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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)

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What is the Treaty of Tordesilla

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The division of the the America’s made by the pope after the founding made by Christopher Columbus. West to Spain East to Portugal.

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What is the FARC

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Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia Challenge

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What is the ELN

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National Liberation Army – gained wealth and weapons through the drug trade

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Why is urban primacy a bad thing?

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Too many natural resources are concentrated into one urban center

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What is maquiladora

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Mexican assembly plants that line the border with the US

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Where do smaller language groups exist in Latin America?

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Central America, Amazon Basin, southern Chile

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What is the process of integration of Latin American workers into global labor markets

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Remittances

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What is the average TFR for a Guatemalan woman

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4 children/woman

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What is the main environmental issue in Africa?

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Deforestation

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What are the primary biofuels in Africa and what are they being used for?

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Wood and Charcoal; they’re being used for house hold energy needs such as cooking

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What are the two causes of desertification in Africa?

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Expansion of agriculture and overgrazing

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What is transhumance?

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Movement of animals

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What are the three main biomes in Sub-Saharan Africa?

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Tropical forests, savannas/grasslands, deserts

17
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Who are Boko Haram

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Armed Jihadist group formed in northeaster Africa who have escalated violence in north and south Africa

18
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Which country in Sub-Saharan Africa has the largest number of IDP’s?

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The Democratic Republic of the Congo at 3 million

19
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Who are the apartheid?

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Official policy of racial segregation that shaped relations in S. Africa for ~ 50 years

20
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What are the trade languages used in Sub-Saharan Africa?

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Swahili and Hausa

21
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Where is HIV/AIDS thought to have originated from?

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In the forests of the Congo from the crossover of chimpanzees to humans

22
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Where was the Aswan Dam completed and what has it done for North Africa?

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It was completed along the Nile River south of Cairo, Egypt and has increased storage capacity, made more water available for agriculture

23
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What is included in the Maghreb?

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Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia and is dominated near the Mediterranean coastline by Atlas Mountains

24
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What is Mesopotamia best known for?

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One of the first recorded big cities in modern Iraq to which contained Eridu and Ur

25
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Why is overgrazing an issue in the Middle East?

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The region is too dry to upkeep trees and and browsing made by sheep and goats

26
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What is salinization

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The buildup of toxins and salt in the soil

27
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What are the major environmental issues in the middle east?

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Deforestation, overgrazing, salinization, and coastal pollution

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What are the primary types of agriculture practiced in the middle east?

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Dry farming, oasis/irrigation, and the use of exotic rivers

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Where do the dry climates take place in the Middle East?

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Dry Climates dominate along western Morocco to easter Iran and provide little precipitation

30
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Where do the mild midlatitudes dominate in the Middle East?

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Mediterranean climates dominate along the basin and Black Sea

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What is the issue of hydropolitics in the Middle East?

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It is the interplay of water resource issues and politics raising tensions between countries that share drainage basins.

32
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What is the dominant Muslim religion in Middle East?

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Sunni Islam by 73%

33
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What is the reason for the east Mediterranean being considered as the “hearth of Judeo-Christianity?

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Jewish religion lies deep in Israel, while Christianity was born along the eastern Mediterranean

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What is a medina and what is it dominated by?

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a walled cored in traditional Islamic city dominated by the central mosque and its associated religious, educational, and administrative functions

35
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Which Muslim religion is the Qom Mosque visited by?

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Shiites

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