Word Lists in the World Geography Category

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Example: Are North, South, East and West: Cardinal Directions, Distance in degrees east and west of the Prime Meridian: Longitude, Mix of human and nonhuman features at a given location: Place, Show physical, or natural features: Physical Map

Example: Ecuador: Quito, Colombia: Bogota, Peru: Lima, Chile: Santiago

Example: loess: fine, yellowish topsoil made up of silt and clay, carried by the wind, dike: large bank of earth and stone that holds back water, polder: low-lying area from which seawater has been drained to create new land, mistral: strong northerly wind from the Alps that can bring cold air to southern Franc

Example: glaciation: a process by which glaciers form and spread, fjord: a long, steep-sided glacial valley now filled by seawater, geothermal energy: a form of energy conversation that captures heat energy from within Earth, hot spring: a spring whose water tissues at a temperature higher than that of its surroundings

Example: People who move from place to place: Nomads, Old Stone Age, Hunter-Gatherers: Paleolithic, New Stone Age- Farmers: Neolithic, An imaginary circle around the middle of the earth, halfway between the North Pole and the South Pole: Equator

Example: a material used to produce heat or power by burning: Fuel, a fundamental entity of nature that is transferred between parts of a system in the production of physical change within the system and usually regarded as the capacity for doing work: Energy, to derive as a conclusion from facts or premises: Infer, to determine the significance, worth, or condition of usually by careful appraisal and study: Evaluate

Example: Worsening economic conditions in the countryside, including rising unemployment and growing poverty.: RURAL DECLINE, The unequal distribution of wealth or resources in a geographic area, so that some places are richer than others. : SPATIAL INEQUALITY , The overall level of comfort and well-being of a group or country. : STANDARD OF LIVING , The movement of people from rural to urban areas, resulting in the growth of urban areas.: URBANIZATION

Example: A major population center made up of a large city and the smaller suburbs and towns that surround it. : METROPOLITAN AREA, The small towns, farms, and open spaces that lie just beyond the city's suburbs. : RURAL FRINGE, A developed area at the edge of a city that is mainly homes, but may also contain stores and businesses. : SUBURB, The older part of a big city. Often this area serves as the downtown or central business district of a city. : URBAN CORE

Example: A major population center made up of a large city and the smaller suburbs and towns that surround it. : METROPOLITAN AREA, The small towns, farms, and open spaces that lie just beyond the city's suburbs. : RURAL FRINGE, A developed area at the edge of a city that is mainly homes, but may also contain stores and businesses. : SUBURB, The older part of a big city. Often this area serves as the downtown or central business district of a city. : URBAN CORE

Example: A mountain range in Asia where Mt. Everest is located.: The Himalayas, The highest point on Earth.: Mt. Everest, The population of India: 800,000,000, The animal that dinosaurs is closely related to.: Birds

Example: Rain that can cause damage to the environment because it contains acid from factory smoke and car exhaust. It can cause damage to plants, fish, animals, and even buildings. : ACID RAIN, A form of energy that comes from nuclear reactions. Radiation has no smell and no taste, but can be very harmful to living things. : NUCLEAR RADIATION , A river and all the streams that flow into it. The streams that flow into a river are called tributaries. : RIVER SYSTEM, Pollution that starts in one country and crosses boundaries into other countries. : TRANS BOUNDARY POLLUTION

Example: Rain that can cause damage to the environment because it contains acid from factory smoke and car exhaust. It can cause damage to plants, fish, animals, and even buildings. : ACID RAIN, A form of energy that comes from nuclear reactions. Radiation has no smell and no taste, but can be very harmful to living things. : NUCLEAR RADIATION , A river and all the streams that flow into it. The streams that flow into a river are called tributaries. : RIVER SYSTEM, Pollution that starts in one country and crosses boundaries into other countries. : TRANS BOUNDARY POLLUTION

Example: Rain that can cause damage to the environment because it contains acid from factory smoke and car exhaust. It can cause damage to plants, fish, animals, and even buildings. : ACID RAIN, A form of energy that comes from nuclear reactions. Radiation has no smell and no taste, but can be very harmful to living things. : NUCLEAR RADIATION , A river and all the streams that flow into it. The streams that flow into a river are called tributaries. : RIVER SYSTEM, Pollution that starts in one country and crosses boundaries into other countries. : TRANS BOUNDARY POLLUTION

Example: A community of all the living things in an area and the environment in which they live. : Ecosystem, A series of plants and animals, each of which depends on the one below it for food. : Food Chain , All of the feeding relationships within an ecosystem. : Food Web , Made up of water that is fresh, not salty : Freshwater

Example: A community of all the living things in an area and the environment in which they live. : Ecosystem, A series of plants and animals, each of which depends on the one below it for food. : Food Chain , All of the feeding relationships within an ecosystem. : Food Web , Made up of water that is fresh, not salty : Freshwater

Example: economics: the study of producing, distributing, and consuming goods and services., scarcity: when people have unlimited needs and wants but there are not enough resources to fulfill them., goods: something that is MADE or GROWN. Items that we value or desire, they must be tangible (can be touched, tasted or held). , services: work that someone does for someone else

Example: Most Muslims belong to which branch of Islam?: [m] Sunni , The Holy Book of Islam is called the?: [m] Quran, Jerusalem is a holy city for how many religions?: [m] 3, The two main groups of Muslims are: [m] Sunni and Shia

Example: A.D. 1502. Columbus. 1513. Vasco Nuñez de Balbao. 1518. Grijalva. 1519. Fernando Cortez. 1519. Guray. : [m] Central America, A.D. 1605. Torres. 1606. Quiros. 1616. Hartog. 1619. Edel and Houtman. 1622. The Leeuwin. 1627. Nuyts. 1699. Dampier. 1770. Cook. 1797. Bass. 1801-4. Flinders. 1814. Evans. 1817-22. King. 1828-40. Sturt. 1839. Strzelecki. 1841. Eyre. 1844-48. Leichhardt. : [m] Australia, A.D. 1642. Tasman. 1643. Brouwer. 1768-79. Cook. : [m] New Zealand, A.D. 1512. Francisco Serrão. 1520, 21. Magellan. 1527. Saavedra. 1542. Gaetano 1542. Ruy Lopez de Villalobos. 1543. Ortez de Retis. 1567-98. Alvaro Mendaña. 1599. Houtman. 1643. Tasman. 1768. Carteret. 1776-79. Cook. 1835-49. Junghuhn. 1890. Macgregor. : [m] Polynesia

Example: What are two foods that the Echidna eats?: Ants and Termites, What are the only two Monotreme animals? : Duck billed Platypus , When is breeding season for the Echidna?: July-September, What is a Monotreme animal?: a mammal that lays eggs

Example: Why couldn't Sparta help Athens fight in the battle of Marathon against the Persians: Sparta was in the middle of a "religious ceremony" to Pan, What did Pan do to help the Athenians?: Send a dieseise to the Persians, Who is the fastest runner in Athens?: Phidippides, Who eventually conquered the Spartans?: The Dorians

Example: they make good candy there: Mexico, it has 50 states: United States, it snows a lot there: Canada, bounus question what contenet are we doing?: North America

Example: Name the continets in order: North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Austrailia, Antarctica, Name the main oceans: Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Arctic, How many major ocenas are there?: 4, How many continets are there on the map?: 7

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Example: Longest river in Africa (and the world): Nile, Chief river of the largest river system in North America: Mississippi, Longest river in China: Yangtze, Largest river in South America (and second in the world): Amazon

Example: Brunei, Cambodia, Indoesia, Lao

Example: Frankfurt, Düsseldorf, München, Köln

Example: Capital of Japan: Tokyo, Capital of China: Beijing, Capital of France: Paris, Capital of Germany: Berlin

Example: Largest river in South America: Amazon, Largest country by population: China, Largest city in the U.S. by population: New York, Most populous city in the U.S. west of the Mississippi: Los Angeles

Example: alps, rockies, himalayas, everest