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57 Cards in this Set
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Countries part of the Oceania
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Austrailia
New Zealand South Pacific Pacific Islands |
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Major Pacific Islands?
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Melanesia
Micronesia Polynesia |
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- old folded mountains
- Steel escarpement, NZ broke away - high snowy mountains |
Eastern highlands - Australia
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- hot and dry
- Great Artesian Basin - abriculture and farming |
Interior lowlands - Australia
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an aquifer called...?
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Great Artesian Basin
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- Very dry
- Flat desert - poor farming - erosion and weathering; resistant landforms *Ayers Rock *Uluru |
Western Plateau
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a big tourist destination; land eroded around it
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Ayers Rock
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Part of New Zealand where:
- permanent snow fields - further from equator - alpine scenery (conifer trees) |
South Island
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Part of New Zealand where:
- rolling hills - productive agriculture - Warmer - volcanic activity |
North Island
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has lowlands and coconuts
-global warming |
Atoll
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Land use of aborigines?
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hunter and gatherers, made fires, little change
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Maori land use?
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-new zealand
-more change: intensive hunting and agriculture |
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European changes?
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-livestock
-intensive agriculture -mining; metals and minerals |
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Atomic bomb testing in?
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Bikini Atoll
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The pollution from the atomic testing brought it to...
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Renegelap islands
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irish activists are what religion?
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Catholics
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A pact with Maori to keep land and rights.
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Treaty of Waitangi
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Most common religion in Australia
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Christianity
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Land owned by no one
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Terra Nullius
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"people of the land"
New Zealand |
Tangeta Whenua
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Australia's immigration policy sought to maintain a European look; it restricted immigration to ppl from N. Europe.
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White Australia Policy
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- Canadian shield
- interior lowlands - great plains - agriculture |
Central Lowland
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- Major eastern landform
- high crests(lower than the west) |
Appalachian Mountains
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- Mountains (Sierra, Cascade, Rocky)
- old rocky mountains; round and eroded - Intermontane Basin - Colorado Plateau |
West Mountain Ranges
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- long growing season
- temperate forest - more chance to do agriculture |
South Great Lakes
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- Coniferous trees
- permafrost (tundra) - Alaskan glaciers - calving |
North Great Lakes
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- Seasonal range in temperature
- Not near the ocean |
Continental Climate - Midwest
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Europeans fighting each other in colonized areas throughout the world
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7 yrs war
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North America phase (France vs Britain)
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French and Indian War
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- Gained independence from Britain
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American Revolution
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Natural resources unprocessed and are exported to areas where they are manufactured into end products
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Canadian's Staple Economy
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Countries part of the southern cone
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Paraguay
Argentina Chile Uruguay |
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Raised areas between mountains
- flat, cool, and wet (Good for agriculture) - floating villages |
Altiplano
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Tallest waterfall
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Angel Falls
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Area where 2 tetonic plates meet and move towards one another; slides under another and form volcanoes
- folded mountains |
Subduction
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Kills original tree and becomes it's own structure
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Matapalo
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Low, tropical agriculture, bananas
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Tierra Caliente
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Cooler, coffee, banana plants
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Tierra Templada
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Colder, potatoes, tubers
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Tierra Fria
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"Ice cream" zone, llamas, alpaca
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Tierra Helada
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Explorer that landed in Mexico; Conquered Aztec Empire
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Henan Cortez
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Inca Ruins; "Face of the Inca"
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Macho Picho
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Division between East(Portugal) and West(Spain); Pope drew a demarcation line through Latin American
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Treaty of Tordesillas
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Tikal, Guatemala
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Lots of rainforests
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Native american language of South America
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Quechua
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Maya people
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Lacandon
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Blanco
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Spanish Descent
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Indigenous
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Native American
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Afro-Latin American
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African ancestry
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Mestizo
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mixture of European and indigenous
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Mulatto
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African and European ancestry
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Zambo
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African and Indian descent
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Most common languages in South America
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Spanish and Poruguese, and Quechua in Aymara and Chapalache
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Most common religion in South America
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Catholic
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Hacienda
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Plantation and mines
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Explorer that found the Incan Empire
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Francisco Pizarro
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African and Catholic Religions
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Candomble
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