-
money and/or machinery used to build and
support new industries
a. heavy industry
b. light industry
c. forage
d. capital
d. capitol
-
food for grazing animals
a. coup
b. forage
c. krill
d. lagoon
e. bazaar
-
the loss of all vegetation following a
drought
a. forage
b. shifting agriculture
c. slash & burn
d. deforestation
e. desertification
-
refers to someone fleeing his/her country
to escape danger
a. minaret
b. mercenary
c. refugee
d. theocrat
e. ethnocrat
-
an area of lakes, creeks and swamps away
from the ocean
a. aquaculture
b. crevasse
c. inland delta
d. reservoir
e. oasis
-
designed to change the structure of the
economy to make it work better
a. glasnost
b. structural adjustment program
c. capitalism
d. communism
e. socialism
-
a soldier who is hired to fight
a. mercenary
b. refugee
c. soldier of fortune
d. theocrat
e. ethnocrat
-
belief in the spirits of the dead
a. animism
b. hinduism
c. ancestor worship
d. shintoism
e. maoism
-
this process occurs when people strip
the land of its trees
a. intensive farming
b. extensive farming
c. deforestation
d. desertification
e. forage
-
completely surrounded by land; cutoff
from the sea
a. island
b. landlocked
c. lagoon
d. peninsula
e. continental
-
a sudden, violent takeover of a government
a. anarchy
b. mercenary
c. sanction
d. theocracy
e. coup
-
the belief that ordinary things in nature
possess gods or spirits
a. animism
b. ancestor worship
c. deforestation
d. desertification
e. verticulture
-
process where farmers prepare new farmland
to replace previously used fields on which the soil has been exhausted
a. shifting agriculture
b. slash & burn
c. deforestation
d. desertification
e. verticulture
-
a government in which one ethnic group
rules over another
a. anarchy
b. segregation
c. apartheid
d. autocracy
e. ethnocracy
-
where land is taken from those who have
plenty and is given to those who have little or none
a. structural adjustment program
b. land redistribution
c. communism
d. capitalism
e. socialism
-
disease caused by lack of proper food
a. diabetes
b. malnutrition
c. lukemia
d. cancer
e. influenza
-
a river which is deep and wide enough
to allow ocean-going vessels to pass
a. navigable
b. tributary
c. isthmus
d. maritime
e. drainage basin
-
a flooded area of land that dropped down
between a major fault
a. inland delta
b. moor
c. drainage basin
d. graben
e. peat
-
cut and dried blocks of spongy material
containing waterlogged mosses and plants often used for fuel
a. grabens
b. lignite
c. geothermal
d. moor
e. peat
-
winds blowing across the warm current
of the North Atlantic Drift
a. high pressure
b. low pressure
c. westerlies
d. cirrus
e. stratus
-
flooded river valley at the wide mouth
of a river
a. estuary
b. moor
c. bog
d. inland delta
e. summit
-
broad, treeless rolling plains covering
most of the Scottish Highlands
a. moor
b. lignite
c. peat
d. graben
e. prairie
-
highest point or peak
a. cay
b. westerlies
c. minaret
d. estuary
e. summit
-
variations of language unique to a region
or community
a. karst
b. arable
c. literacy
d. dialect
e. multilingual
-
soft, brown coal mined in central Germany
a. graben
b. estuary
c. lignite
d. peat
e. moor
-
sharp increases in prices
a. heavy industry
b. inflation
c. capitalism
d. socialism
e. communism
-
great rebirth of art and learning that
began in Italy in the 1300’s
a. Renaissance
b. Crimean War
c. Baroque
d. Perestroika
e. Glasnost
-
tidal waves as high as 300 feet
a. karst
b. tsunami
c. minaret
d. summit
e. moor
-
section of a city where minorities are
forced to live
a. hinterland
b. multiethnic
c. erg
d. summit
e. ghetto
-
soft limestone easily eroded by wind and
water
a. lignite
b. moor
c. karst
d. graben
e. peat
-
composed of many ethnic groups
a. glasnost
b. perestroika
c. multilingual
d. multiethnic
e. minority
-
state-owned agriculture in which workers
share in the profit and excess from their produce
a. capitalism
b. heavy industry
c. light industry
d. collective farm
e. state farm
-
not tied to either the Communist or the
democratic bloc of nations
a. democratic
b. non-aligned
c. capitalism
d. socialism
e. communism
-
the production of goods such as steel
and machines to be used by other industries
a. cottage industry
b. light industry
c. heavy industry
d. state farm
e. collective farm
-
a Russian word meaning restructuring
a. perestroika
b. glasnost
c. arable
d. vodka
e. kamchatka
-
a Russian word meaning openness
a. perestroika
b. glasnost
c. arable
d. vodka
e. kamchatka
-
state-owned agriculture in which workers
receive wages as they would in a factory
a. capitalism
b. communism
c. socialism
d. collective farm
e. state farm
-
an area that is suitable for farming
a. inland delta
b. wadi
c. ghetto
d. moor
e. arable
-
poor Egyptian farmers
a. fellaheen
b. muslim
c. minaret
d. prophet
e. ergs
-
a dry riverbed
a. erg
b. drainage basin
c. oasis
d. wadi
e. mirage
-
tall, thin tower attached to an Islamic
house of worship
a. minaret
b. mosque
c. fellaheen
d. lignite
e. wadi
-
person whose teachings are believed to
be inspired by God
a. fellaheen
b. taiga
c. prophet
d. muslim
e. hindu
-
fertile place in a dry region formed by
a source of fresh water
a. mirage
b. oasis
c. wadi
d. erg
e. minaret
-
follower of Islam
a. Jew
b. Christian
c. Muslim
d. Atheist
e. Hindu
-
method of allowing a precise amount of
water to drip from pipes onto plants
a. desalination
b. qanat irrigation
c. perennial irrigation
d. drip irrigation
e. basin irrigation
-
process of purifying seawater of salt
a. inflation
b. desalination
c. glasnost
d. perestroika
e. karstation
-
state of lawlessness, or political disorder
a. communism
b. socialsim
c. capitalism
d. anarchy
e. non-violent resistence
-
traditional Arab open-air market
a. oasis
b. bazaar
c. erg
d. ghetto
e. summit
-
practice of building walls around fields
in order to trap the water and silt overflowing from the banks of a river
a. reclamation
b. qanat irrigation
c. drip irrigation
d. basin irrigation
e. perennial irrigation
-
ruler of ancient Egypt who was worshipped
as a god and entombed in a pyramid after dying
a. oasis
b. minaret
c. fellaheen
d. muslim
e. pharoah
-
artificial lake created after damming
a river
a. verticulture
b. aquaculture
c. inland delta
d. oasis
e. reservoir
-
system that provides needed water to fields
throughout the year
a. irrigation
b. flooding
c. planting
d. intensive farming
e. extensive farming
-
highland area separating rivers flowing
west from rivers flowing east
a. hinterland
b. graben
c. cordillera
d. continental divide
e. prevailing westerlies
-
ability to read and write
a. prairie
b. literacy
c. multilingual
d. dialect
e. maritime
-
rivers and streams that flow or carry
water into a river
a. inland delta
b. irrigation
c. tributary
d. continental divide
e. hydroelectricity
-
type of power generated by moving water
a. hydroelectricity
b. tributary
c. geothermal energy
d. maritime
e. qanat irrigation
-
related set of separate mountain ranges
a. continental divide
b. graben
c. prairie
d. hinterland
e. cordillera
-
entire area of land whose runoff is collected
by a major river and its tributaries
a. tributary
b. drainage basin
c. continental divide
d. canopy
e. cay
-
measurement of a person’s/group’s level
of education, housing, health care and nutrition
a. minority
b. standard of living
c. literacy
d. capitalism
e. socialism
-
temperate grassland characterized by a
great variety of grasses
a. taiga
b. treeline
c. prairie
d. canopy
e. drainage basin
-
resources that cannot be replaced when
they are used
a. renewable resources
b. graben
c. peat
d. non-renewable resources
e. manufacturing
-
agriculture in which people grow only
enough food for themselves or their village
a. subsistence
b. commercial
c. intensive
d. extensive
e. verticulture
-
total value of goods and services produced
by a country in a year, divided by total population
a. per capita GNP
b. capitalism
c. communism
d. socialism
e. standard of living
-
resources that the environment continues
to supply or replace
a. capital
b. graben
c. non-renewable resources
d. renewable resources
e. manufacturing
-
energy that comes from the earth’s internal
heat
a. nuclear
b. solar
c. renewable
d. non-renewable
e. geothermal
-
the process of turning raw materials into
finished products
a. heavy industry
b. manufacturing
c. light industry
d. capitalism
e. communism
-
value for nations planning large-scale
military actions
a. krill
b. mercenary
c. hinterland
d. sanctions
e. strategic value
-
measures that punish a country for actions
of which the international community disapproves
a. perestroika
b. glasnost
c. land redistribution
d. sanctions
e. structural adjustment program
-
opposing an enemy by any means other than
violence
a. non-violent resistance
b. silent attack
c. search & seizure
d. bounding overwatch
e. reconnaissance
-
small business that uses a person’s home
as a place to produce goods
a. aquaculture
b. verticulture
c. cottage industry
d. subsistence farming
e. commercial farming
-
agriculture that requires great amounts
of labor
a. terraced farming
b. verticulture
c. aquaculture
d. intensive farming
e. extensive farming
-
raising of fish and shellfish in controlled
environments
a. aquaculture
b. verticulture
c. nomadic herding
d. terraced farming
e. plantation farming
-
related to earthquakes
a. tsunami
b. landlocked
c. seismic
d. geothermal
e. nuclear
-
level, narrow ledge built into a hillside
for farming
a. sanction
b. coup
c. thatch
d. terrace
e. graben
-
growing more than one crop a year on the
same land
a. commercial farming
b. subsistence farming
c. command economy
d. demand economy
e. double cropping
-
someone who claims to rule by religious
or divine authority
a. ethnocrat
b. theocrat
c. aautocrat
d. democrat
e. republican
-
belief that God does not exist
a. atheism
b. hinduism
c. islam
d. judaism
e. maoism
-
the practice of inserting needles at specific
points on the body to cure disease or ease pain
a. shintoism
b. accupuncture
c. atheism
d. animism
e. tattoo art
-
shrimp-like creatures which provide food
for marine life in Antarctica
a. whales
b. sharks
c. crustaceans
d. plankton
e. krill
-
a large crack often formed in glacial
ice
a. sliver
b. glacial morraine
c. graben
d. ice shelf
e. crevasse
-
shallow body of water with a outlet to
the ocean
a. peat
b. moor
c. graben
d. inland delta
e. lagoon
-
bordering on or related to the sea
a. hinterland
b. peninsula
c. canopy
d. maritime
e. landlocked
-
residential areas on the outer edges of
a city
a. hinterland
b. suburb
c. metropolis
d. megalopolis
e. tributary
-
average number of days between the last
frost of spring and the first fall frost
a. isthmus
b. growing season
c. treeline
d. intensive farming
e. extensive farming
-
economic system allowing individuals to
own, operate and profit from their own businesses
a. light industry
b. heavy industry
c. socialism
d. communism
e. capitalism
-
areas served by larger cities
a. hinterland
b. cordillera
c. canopy
d. tributary
e. drainage basin
-
boundary above which continuous forest
vegetation cannot grow
a. irrigation
b. treeline
c. prairie
d. canopy
e. cay
-
scientist who studies the atmosphere and
the weather
a. biologist
b. meteorologist
c. geologist
d. economist
e. guerrilla
-
low coral island
a. canopy
b. cay
c. maritime
d. cordillera
e. navigable
-
top layer of a forest
a. canopy
b. cay
c. maritime
d. treeline
e. isthmus
-
wave that rises as much as 25 feet above
sea level
a. cay
b. canopy
c. storm surge
d. tsunami
e. maritime
-
member of an armed force that is not part
of the regular army
a. mercenary
b. graben
c. criminal
d. guerrilla
e. peat
-
narrow strip of land bordered on both
sides by water and joining two larger bodies of land
a. canopy
b. cay
c. hinterland
d. isthmus
e. maritime
-
artificial watering of the land, often
by means of canals
a. drainage basin
b. irrigation
c. tributary
d. growing season
e. navigable
-
speaking many different languages
a. literacy
b. multiethnic
c. dialect
d. navigable
e. multilingual
-
a group that has fewer members than the
major ethnic, religious or national group in an area
a. communists
b. socialists
c. minority
d. dialect
e. ethnocracy
-
an economy where the decisions on what
is to be made is based on consumer needs and desires
a. command economy
b. demand economy
c. intensive farming
d. extensive farming
e. verticulture
-
an economy where the decisions on what
is to be made is determined by the government
a. command economy
b. demand economy
c. heavy industry
d. light industry
e. commercial farming
-
Soviet coniferous forest region
a. outback
b. tundra
c. kuznetsk
d. taiga
e. savanna
-
a large expanse of sand dunes
a. arable
b. erg
c. taiga
d. kuznetsk basin
e. savanna