Geography Final 2011

Name the 7 continents

North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Australia, Africa, Antarctica

Name the 4 oceans

Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, Arctic

List eh 5 themes of Geography

Location, place, region, movement, human-environment interaction

exile

forced to leave a country

African nation founded for freed U.S. slaves

Liberia

The Middle East's richest mineral resource

oil

Climate

weather patterns over one area for a long period of time

The world's largest landmass

Eurasia

Nazi leader during WWII

Adolf Hitler

Delta

mouth of a river shaped; like a triangle

Theocracy

rule by religious law

The world's tallest mountain

Mt. Everest

Holocaust

mass killing of over 6 million Jews

The lowest point of land on earth

shoreline of the Dead Sea

the religion founded by Muhammad

Islam

Most black Africans speak this language

Bantu

Swahili word for "hello

Jambo

2nd largest continent

Africa

Causes the African Sleeping sickness

tsetse fly

Longest river in the world

Nile river

The religion founded upon the teachings of Jesus Christ

Christianity

Subsistence agriculture

growing enough crops for yourself and family

Tornado

small twisting violent storm

Multilingual

the ability to speak 3 or more languages

The climate of Tennessee

Humid-subtropical

Geography comes from this Greek word

geographia

Peninsula

land form surrounded by water on three sides

Fashion capital of the world

Paris, France

Geyser

Hot spring that wells up to the surface

oasis

fertile place in the desert where water is found

Judaism is the...

first monotheistic religion

The world's largest desert

Sahara

apartheid

separation of races

Largest mountain system in the world

The Himalayas

Most populated country in the world

China

Religion of India that involves reincarnation

Hindu

The second most populated country in the world

India

The most dominant religion of China

Buddhism

Original inhabitants of Australia

Aborigines

The world's largest island

Australia

isthmus

narrow strip of land connecting to larger land masses

Country known in ancient times for its cedar trees

Lebanon