"Eastern World" Study Guide Flashcards
What are the two main branches of geography?
Physical Geography and Human Geography
What are the main processes of the water cycle?
Evaporation and precipitation
What are the two physical features that gave Mesopotamia its name?
Tigris and Euphrates rivers
What is a “highland”? Where can you find one?
A type of climate found in mountainous regions. They can be found at many different latitudes.
What is notable about Bahrain’s geography?
It is a group of islands
What do we call the process of moving from one place to another?
migration
What is “The Resurrection”?
The Christian belief that Jesus rose from the dead
What word best describes Central Asia’s physical geography?
Landlocked
Why was Egypt called “The Gift of the Nile”?
The Nile brought fertility and life to the region
How did the great kingdoms of West Africa become powerful?
By controlling trade routes across the Sahara
What helped unify China?
The Qin dynasty under the policies of Shi Huangdi
What has been a major problem for former African colonies since becoming independent?
Fighting among ethnic groups
Where are Harappa and Mohenjo Daro located?
Near the Indus River
What causes tsunamis?
Underwater earthquakes and volcanic eruptions
Who were the first humans to live in Australia?
The Aborigines
These scientists try to find relationships among people who live far apart.
Geographers who study the world on a global level
Where does the Bible say that Moses received the Ten Commandments?
A mountain called Sinai
What are the main physical features of the Arabian Peninsula?
Desert plains and oases
What causes night and day?
The earth’s rotation
What is population density?
A measure of the number of people living in an area
Who conquered and had a major influence on Central Asia?
The Arabs, Mongols, and Soviets
What happened after the Kushites were driven out of Egypt?
Meroe became the new Kushite capital and center of a large trade network.
What parts of Africa did France rule in the early 1900s?
Tunisia, Algeria, and parts of Morocco
What is the Congo Basin?
A bowl-shaped landform that covers much of Central Africa
What happened after the rule of Candra Gupta II?
The Gupta society began to decline
What is Taiwan like?
Green and tropical, with beautiful mountains and crowded cities
What is an important industry in the Outback, Australia’s interior?
Mining
Is geography a science or a social science?
Both
What is Korea’s main obstacle to reunification?
The question of a common form of government
What is a front?
A place where two air masses of different temperatures or moisture content meet
What is the Caste system?
It divides Indian society into groups based on a person’s birth, wealth, or occupation
Where was Babylon?
Near present-day Iraq
Who led the Jews on long journeys?
Abraham and Moses
What is a tariff?
A fee that a country charges on imports and exports
What is a dialect?
A regional variety of a language
What is an embargo?
A limit placed on trade with another country
What is a drought?
A long period of lower than normal precipitation
What is monotheism?
The worship of only one god
What is Latitude?
The distance north or south of the equator
What does it mean to secede?
To break away from the main country
What is a missionary?
People who want to spread their religious beliefs
What is imperialism?
A practice used to dominate other countries’ government, trade, and culture.
What is a delta?
A landform at the mouth of a river created by sediment deposits
How did the people of Western Africa preserve their history?
They did NOT use written records. Oral history?
How has Central Africa’s economy been affected by the lack of major rivers?
It has NOT slowed the economy
What was the silk road?
A network of trade routes that connected East and West. Europe, Egypt, Arabian Peninsula, Persia, India, China
What is the significant of the Antarctic Treaty of 1959?
It set aside Antarctica as a scientific preserve and banned all military activity on the continent.
