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March 2016
March 2016
Geography, Culture, Europe, Russia, Southwest Asia, Africa
Geography
What is
geography?
The study of
the earth’s
features and its
people.
Geography
What are the
Globes are
similarities and spheres maps
differences
are flat.
between globes
and maps?
Geography
Why are there
different map
projections?
No map
projection can
show the earth
accurately.
Geography
What type of
Political map
map would you
use to find state
boundaries?
Geography
What type of
Physical map
map would you
use to find
elevation, land
forms and water
forms?
Geography
What type of
Population map
map would you
use to find
population
density?
Geography
What type of
Thematic map
map would you
use to find
economic
activity?
Geography
A piece of the Tectonic plate
Earth’s crust
that moves and
creates
landforms.
Geography
A substance
Magma
that forms plate
movement
along fault
lines.
Geography
A land feature
that is formed
when surface
plates crush
together.
Volcano
Geography
A giant wave
that can be
caused by
volcanic
eruptions.
Tsunami
Geography
When rocks
Fault
along a crack in
the Earth’s
surface move.
Geography
Something that Earthquake
results in the
movement
along fault
lines.
Geography
A long narrow
ban of
volcanoes in
the Pacific
Ocean.
Ring of fire
Geography
A flat treeless
plane with
permanently
frozen ground.
Tundra
Geography
A large area of Taiga
coniferous
forest
stretching
through Russia.
Geography
Which
continent is
known as the
peninsula of
peninsulas?
Europe
Geography
Which
Asia
continent is the
largest?
Geography
Which
Africa
continent is the
second largest?
Government
Hereditary ruler Constitutional
that serves as a monarchy
symbol for the
nation.
Government
One person
Dictatorship
holds complete
power over
government.
Government
Citizens vote
Direct
and participate democracy
in government
first hand.
Government
Citizens elect
government
officials to
represent
them.
Representative
democracy
Government
Leaders of one
Totalitarianism
political party
who have power
over
government,
economy, and
society.
Government
Heredity ruler
Absolute
who holds power monarchy
over
government,
economy, and
society.
Government
A small group
of people who
control the
government.
Oligarchy
Government
When people
move for a
positive
reason?
Pull factor
Government
When people
move for a
negative
reason?
Push factor
Culture
List the three
monotheistic
religions we
have studied.
Judaism
Christianity
Islam
Culture
Beliefs and
Culture
behavior shared
by a group of
people.
Culture
Culture is…
the “blueprint
for living”.
Culture
To leave the
Emigrate
country of your
birth to live in
another
country.
Culture
To enter
Immigrate.
another
country to live.
Culture
People who flee Refugee
a country
because of
violence, war,
or persecution.
Europe
What two
mountains
separate
Western and
Southern
Europe?
Alps and
Pyrenees
Europe
Political and
economic
system of the
Middle Ages.
feudalism
Europe
What makes the
Middle Ages a
transition
between ancient
and modern
times?
Religious
theories
weakened as
people became
more educated.
Europe
What is another The Great War
name for World
War I.
Europe
Which country
was forced to
accept blame
for
World War I?
Germany
Europe
The German
government
supporting the
murder of 6
million Jews.
Holocaust
Europe
German leader Adolf Hitler
during the
Holocaust.
Europe
Was the
Holocaust
during World
War I or II?
World War II
Europe
What was the Industrial
turning point in Revolution
Western
European
history?
Europe
What made the Coal
Industrial
Revolution
possible?
Europe
The conflict
Cold War
between the
United States
and Russia after
World War II.
Europe
A group whose European
goal is to
Union
strengthen trade
among countries
in Europe.
Europe
What did the
Transportation
European
Union improve
upon to
promote trade?
Europe
Which ancient
Greece
European
country does the
United States
base its
democracy?