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47. What types of information can population density provide?: it shows us important info about where to live and where others live
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Built by the French connecting the Mediterranean and Red seas.: suez cannal
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climate: reajon's average weather condition
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command: a gov that makes all decidions
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cultural diffusion: the spread of cultural traits from one rgion to another is called
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cultural diversity: the state of having a variet of cultures in the same area
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culture: the set of beliefs values and practices that a group of people have in common
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culture region: an area in which people have many shared culture traits
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culture trait: an activity or behavior in which people often take a part of
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deforestation: the clearing of trees
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democracy: a form of government in which people elect leaders by majority
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desert: dry little rain all year
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desertification: the spred of desert like conditions
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developed countries: countries with high productivity and higher quality of life
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developing countries: countries wih less productive economy and lower quality of life
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ecosystem: a group of plants and animals thAT DEPEND ON eachother for survivle
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enviorment: surroundings
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ethnic group: a group of people who share a common culture and ancentry
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fossil fuels: nonrenewable resoures that formed from plants and animals
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globalization: the process in which countries are increasingly linkied to eachother through culture and aid
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habitat: the place where something lives
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highland: depends!
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How are rift valleys formed?: streching of the crust
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how can landformes effect people's lives?: they can prevent people from ventureing out too far
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how can the study of human goegraphiy influnice our lives?: by letting us learn about other people
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How could the Internet encourage cultural diffusion?: by letting others learning about their culture
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how did the Europeans use imperialism in Africa?: they dominated other countreis
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how do cultures change over time?: by families changing ading and distoring the culture
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How do landforms affect people's lives?: they can effect where people settle and effect what jobs are avable
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how do people change landformes to change their needs?: explosives
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How do people change landforms to suit their needs?: build dams cannals and blow up stuff
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how do soils lose their fertility?: soil exostion and erosion
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How does temperature change with elevation?: the air loses oxygen
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how does the clearing of trees effect the ecosystem?: it can kill things that live in the trees
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How does the Earth's tilt on its axis affect climate?: it makes the seasons
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how does the tilt effect the climet?: it makes seasons
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how does water efect people's lives: it can kill if there is not enough it can also save lives
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how does water provide energy?: by water wheels
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How has globalization affected the world?: more people cam communitate
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how is Geo usefull: you can learn diffrent things about the people and the earth
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how is the elements and standerds related?: the standerds are made out of the elements
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how is the elements related to the themes?: the elements are made up from the themes
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How is the inland delta of the Niger River different from other deltas?: it ends 100s of miles away from the ocean
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How is today's world more like a village than in earlier times?: people are connected like a village now
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How might the clearing of plants and trees affect an ecosystem?: kill animals that live in the tree
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How were the lakes in Great Rift Valley formed?: by the streching of the crust and got filled with water
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humid contential: 4 dastinct seasons
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humid subtropical: humid rain all year
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humid tropical: warm all year lots and lots of dain
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humus: decaed plant and animal mater
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ice cap: freazing all year
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in what ways do geographicers study the earth: Inerview, study themselves, reasurch
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in what ways does improved communication and transportation affect trade?: if there is good comunitition there is good trade cause people understand each other
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in what ways is Geo a social science and a science?: Looks at stuff the way scientests look at it, they study the world and all the stuff on it
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interdependence: a relatoinship between countries in whcih they rely on one another through services
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is soil a renewable or nonrenewable resource?: rewnewable
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marine weast cost: mild summers cool rainey winters
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market: a system based on privet ownership trade and compition
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medatranian: warm summers mild wet winters
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natural resource: something in nature that people use and value
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nonrenewable resources: resources earth does not replace natulrly
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popular culture: refers to culture traits that are welcome and widely accepted
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population: the total number of people in a given area
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population density: a measure of the number of people living in an area
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reforestation: replanting trees
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renewable reasorce: resources earth replaces natulrly
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steppe: like desert but less extreme
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sub artic: long cold winters short warm summers
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three types of maps: Physical map, political, special
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trditonal: people make own goods
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tropical savanna: warm all year dry wet seasons
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tundra: cold all year with cool summrs
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weather: the short term changes in the air for a given place and time
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What are North Africa's major resources?: oil minerals
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What are sanctions?: penelteys from one country to another
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What are some issues and challenges facing Central Africa today?: desise malnutriton drought
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What are some obstacles to progress in Nigeria?: drought
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What are some of the challenges facing North Africa today?: drought poverty illeteracy
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what are the 2 main branches of Geo?: science socal science
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what are the 3 levels that geographicers study the earth?: Local reagonal, global
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what are the 5 features of a map: Comps rose, scale, title, key, locator map
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what are the 5 themes of Geo?: location; human; envymorment; reaction; movement
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what are the 6 essential elements?: the world in spatial terms; places and reigons; physical systems; human systens; enviorment and sociaty; and the uses of Geo.
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what are the climet reagons?: humid tropical, tropical savanna, desert, steppe, medertrainan, humid tropical, marine west cost, humid contenetial, subartic, tundra, ice cap, highland
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What are the major problems facing Egypt today?: drought poverty illeteracy
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What are the two most common religions in Africa?: christanity, and islam
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What are the types of economic systems used in the world today and how are the different?: trditional market command
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What are two enclaves in Southern Africa?: lethoso swaziland
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what causes the plates to move?: magma
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What contributes to ethnic conflict in Arica?: wars
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What country in East Africa has never been under European rule and why?: eathoipa cause it is protected by mountions
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What covers most of North Africa?: the sahara desert
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what creates the changes in the seasons?: the tilt of the earth's axis
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what do geogrephicers use?: Satilight globs movies mesuring things and stuff like that
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what drives the water sycle?: the sun
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What happens when an environment changes?: it can have drastic impact on the life there
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What impact did Europeans have on West Africa?: slave trade, brought christianty, brought deiseis
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what is a globe?: a spherical representation of the earth
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What is a major barrier to travel on Central Africa's rivers?: waterfalls
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What is a veld?: open grassland
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What is Afrikaans?: euorpian ancestery in africa
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What is an enclave?: a small country surrounded by forigen terrritory
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What is an escarpment?: a cliff
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What is animism?: the bleif that innanitimt objects have spirts
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What is genocide?: intential distructin of a people
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what is Geo?: the study of of the earth and the stuff on it
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What is hieroglyphics?: the righting of the egyptians
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What is imperialism?: to dominate other countreis
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what is plate tecktonicks?: the theriory that the earth is devided in to plates
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what is the diffrence between absolute location and relvent location: absolute is absolute; relvent is relvent
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What is the dominate religion in North Africa?: islam
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what is the same with globe and map? what is diffrent?: they show the world; a globe round; map flat
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what is the water sycle?: the movement of water
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What is unusual about Mount Kilimanjaro?: it is on the equator but is covered in snow
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What kinds of political problems keep mineral resources from being fully developed in Central Africa?: wars
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What language was developed when East Africa traded with Arabic speakers?: swahili
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What role do families play in the development of culture?: families are the ones that develop the culture
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What type of climate does most of North Africa have?: medatraian
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What was aparthide?: the seperatian if races
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What was the result of Michael Fay's 2,000 mile journey through Central Africa's forest?: national parks were made
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When did most African colonies receive independence?: after WW2
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Which country in Southern Africa has lush vegetation and tropical forest?: madigascar
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Who are the Berbers?: the native people to north africa
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who brought Islam to Africa?: muslems
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Who founded Liberia and why?: americans they wanted stuff
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Who was Joseph Mobutu and what affect did he have on the Democratic Republic of the Congo?: he was a harsh dictator
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Who was Nelson Mandela?: the guy that protested aginst aparthide and later became presendent
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Who were the Boers?: africaner farmers
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Why are so many different languages spoken in West Africa?: cuse the europians came
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Why are the hottest areas on Earth near the equator: it is the closest to the sun
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Why did European countries establish colonies in Africa?: they wanted to expand ther empier
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Why did Europeans settle Southern Africa?: it felt like home
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why do societies have governments?: because if theree was no rules and people would reak havoc everywhere
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Why does most of East Africa's population live in the highlands?: because there is lots of animals there and it has good soil
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Why is the economy of Cameroon growing?: political stability. oil reserves and good farming
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why is the hottest place the equator?: because it is the closest to the sun
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Why is the Nile River Valley important?: because it is like a big oasis
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Why might people in East Africa speak a European language?: caus europians invaded them
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Why might people look for alternatives to fossil fuels?: because fissil fuels are runing out and it killes the enviorment
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Why might people prefer to live in a democracy as opposed to a dictatorship?: in a democracy people chose
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why was aparthide unjust?: cause black people got nothing compared to the whites
