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159 Cards in this Set

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What is the difference between absolute and relative location.
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What is used to measure latitude?
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What is used to measure longitude?
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Be able to name the absolute location of a point on a map. What is the absolute location of MBJH?
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Which is the best overall map projection? Why?
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Why is X the best overall map projection?
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What is the difference between climate and weather.
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What are the five influences on climate and how do they have an impact?
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What are the characteristics of a high latitude climate zone?
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What are the characteristics of a low latitude climate zone?
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What are the characteristics of a mid-latitude climate zone?
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What are the characteristics of the three climate zones that are not location specific?
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Why is climate an important part of geography?
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Why is climate an important part of geography?
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Which element is the strongest unifying force in culture?
Language
Explain the relationship between per-capita income and the ‘health’ of a country. (When given a list of statistics, be able to rank the countries from the richest to the poorest.)
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Identify four types of economic systems
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Identify four types of economic systems
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Identify the key differences between a developed country and a developing country.
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What percentage of the world’s population live in cities?
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What difference does trade make in a country’s wealth?
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How does a country manage or control trade?
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What is TOADSSS?
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What is a GIS? How is it used?
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What is a GPS? How is it used?
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What are the highest and lowest points on the Earth’s surface? Does it change if we include water?
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Which Chinese province is located on an island?
Hong Kong
What does China’s “one-country, two-system” pledge refer to?
a promise to allow Western freedoms and capitalism to exist side-by-side with Chinese communism
Macau was once a colony of ________.
Portugal
Where are the Himalayas located?
Mountain located on the southwestern border of China between the Tibetan Plateau and the Ganges Plain in India
What is the official name of China?
The Peoples' Republic of China
Who is the Dalai Lama?
Buddhist leader of Tibet
Which plateau is referred to as the “Roof of the World”?
Plateau of Tibet
What is the Ring of Fire?
Pacific coastal areas with volcanoes and frequent earthquakes
Which Communist leader gave China more economic freedom?
Deng Xiaoping
China holds about how much of the world’s population?
1/5 of the world's population lives here.
What kind of government does Mongolia have?
Democratic country since 1990
Where is the Gobi? What is unusual about it?
This desert is in Northeastern China. It is unusual because it has rocks and stones instead of sand.
What events led to Communist rule in China?
The last emperor was overthrown in the early 1900s. The country was in chaos until the Communists won control in 1949 after the end of WWII.
What two benefits do foreign companies expect from investing in China?
Chinese workers can be paid less in wages and you have the millions of possible customers
What two benefits do foreign companies expect from investing in China?
duplicate
Why was the Great Wall of China built? How long is it?
It was built to keep out invaders. It is over 4,000 feet long.
Why is Tiananmen Square important to the Chinese people?
A protest was held there by students and workers calling for democracy and political reform. Thousands were injured or killed and thousands more were arrested. It became a symbol for their fight for human rights.
What is the capital city of China?
Beijing
What is the largest ethnic group in China?
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Which river is called “China’s sorrow”? Why is it called this?
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Which river is the Three Gorges dam being built to control?
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Where are many electronic industries headquartered?
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What is the number one cause of death in China? What is the cause?
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Name five early Chinese inventions.
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Who were two early philosophers who influenced thinking in China?
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Which of these two philosophers influenced the government?
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What is filial piety?
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What was the Silk Road? What were some of the products traded between China and its early trading partners? What else traveled on the road between China and the west? Give two examples.
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What were some of the obstacles on the Silk Road?
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What impacts Japan’s climate?
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Why does Japan have so many earthquakes and tsunamis?
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Where did the people of Japan come from?
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What country has had a large influence on Japan?
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When did Japan take over territory in China?
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What did Japan do in the 1930s?
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Why is Shinto different from other religions?
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What are the teachings of the two major religions of Japan?
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What do farmers practice in Japan?
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Who were the earliest rulers in Japan?
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What is the traditional center of life in Japan?
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What is the traditional theater in Japan called? How old is it?
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Why is Japan a manufacturing leader and what are some of its products?
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What cities make up the largest megalopolis in Japan?
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What are the two Japanese cities that have significant historical meaning? Why?
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Commodore ____________of the ___________ forced Japan to end its isolationist policy and open trade.
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What was happening in the United States at the end of the rule of the shoguns?
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What happened to Japan at the end of WWII?
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What happened in December 1941?
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Explain Gross National Cool: what it means, why it is happening, and what are some examples?
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Who were the Silla?
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What is the most important need in North Korea?
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Why did North Korea invade South Korea?
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What event started the Korean War?
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What is the dividing line between North and South Korea?
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Who won the Korean War?
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What are the major religions of South Korea?
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What countries participated in the Korean War?
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What is it like to live in North Korea? What is it like to live in South Korea?
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Which martial art originated in South Korea?
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When did the leaders of North Korea and South Korea begin meeting again?
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What do the people of North Korea appear to think of their leader?
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What are the capitals of the following countries: Vietnam, Thailand, the Philippines, Myanmar, and Indonesia
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What is the main ethnic group of Cambodia?
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Which SE Asian country’s name means “land of the free”?
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What is the largest Christian country in SE Asia?
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Which country was once known as Burma?
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Who was Vietnam once ruled by?
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___________ruled the Philippines for more than 300 years.
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Indonesia was once a colony of ________________.
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_____________is one of the world’s smallest countries.
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______________is one of the world’s most densely populated countries.
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Where did the ancestors of Vietnam’s people come from?
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What are wats?
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About ½ of Brunei’s income comes from exporting ____________.
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Which SE Asian country is a world leader in exporting rubber and palm oil?
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Which SE Asian country has free health care and education?
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What country in SE Asian was never a colony of another country?
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Why does Indonesia have so many earthquakes?
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What island country of SE Asia was once a colony of Spain and then of the US?
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Singapore has one of the world’s busiest _______________.
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Why do Indonesia’s leaders find it difficult to form a strong government and economy?
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What country asked its king to return to the throne after 40 years of communist rule?
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What are monsoon winds and what effect do these winds have on the weather in SE Asia?
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What countries make up French Indochina?
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Who is Aung San Suu Kyi?
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What is an isoline?
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On a contour map, what kind of slope would you expect to see if the isolines are far apart? Close together?
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What religion are the majority of people who live in mainland SE Asia? What about on the islands?
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For each major religion of southwest Asia, identify the founder, the holy book, the major holidays and why Jerusalem is important to them.
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When did Israel become a country?
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How did Israel become a country?
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What is the capital of Iraq? Iran? Israel?
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Who are the Palestinians?
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What is the lowest place on the earth’s surface?
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What was the Holocaust?
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What is the Law of Return?
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What is the Diaspora?
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What are the three major groups of Christianity?
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What are the two groups of Islam? What is the difference?
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Where were the world's first civilizations?
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What makes a culture highly-developed (characteristics of a civilization)?
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Who brought the caste system to India?
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Who was the first prime minister of India?
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Where were the earliest settlements in South Asia? How long ago?
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What is the major religion in India?
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What built the Taj Mahal? Why?
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What language is used in business in India?
English
Who ruled India from the 1500s to the 1700s?
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Who led India's independence movement? What methods did he use?
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What was the "green revolution"? Why did it happen?
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Describe the non-violent methods used by Mohandas Ghandi to achieve Indian independence. Why did these methods work in India?
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Describe the caste system (include information on the four "clean" castes and the untouchables).
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How does the caste system provide structure/limits on Indian lives?
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Why do Indians accept these limits?
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What is the major occupation of the people of Bhutan? Bangladesh? Nepal?
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Bangladesh has problems with water. Explain what these are and these causes.
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What is the area disputed by India and Pakistan and why?
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Who are the two groups fighting in Stri Lanka? How are they different? Why are they fighting?
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What are the two nicknames for the country of Bhutan? Explain why.
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Why was Sri Lanka's location important to the Europeans?
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How has the geography of Bhutan and Nepal isolated these two countries?
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Why has Pakistan made slow economic progress?
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What countries used to be East and West Pakistan? Ceylon?
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What is Sri Lanka famous for?
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What industry is important in Bangladesh?
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How and when were the countries of East and West pakistan created? Why?
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How and when were the countries of Bangladesh and Pakistan created?
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What is polluting the Ganges River?
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What are some of the actions the government is taking and try and clean up the Ganges?
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Why did the Europeans comes to Africa?
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Why did the status of the continent change after WWII?
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Which two African countries were never European colonies?
Ethiopia and
Which European country colonized most of North Africa?
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