Human activities that let a mark on the Earth's physical landscape in the form of culture, food, lifestyles, living, hunting, etc....
Hinterland
the main outer zone of influence of a city. A zone of interaction around a city.
Latitude
measure of distance north and south.
Longitude
measure distance east and west
International Date Line
sits on the 180 degree line of longitude and is an imaginary line that separates 2 calendar days that are consecutive.
Formal Region
a region that is classified by its degree of sameness in one or more ways. Physical &/or cultural.
Climate
at least 30 years of weather data
Weather
conditions of the atmosphere at a present point in time.
Tectonic Plates
plates in the crust of the earth that move very slowly and carry the continents.
B-Climates
arid and dry climates and occur in the middle & lower latitudes
Double Maximum
2 rainy and 2 dry seasons interspersed by .
Hydro-logic Cycle
a system that carries evaporated ocean water to the atmosphere, then over land and results in either rain or snow. Involves water in all its forms.
A _________ is a geometric representation of the earth's surface on a flat or plane surface.
map projection
On the ________, the longest day of the year in the northern hemisphere, the sun's rays are vertical over the Tropic of Cancer at noon.
Summer Solstice
The number of time zones around the globe is_______.
24
Using the graphic bar scale of the physical map of North America, the straight distance between Seattle and Denver is approximately__________ miles.
1,000
On this same map, the representative-fraction scale that one unit of map distance represents exactly_______ units of real distance on the earth's surface.
40,000,000
The atmospheric pressure over northern Australia is ______ (low or high) in January
low
During January, the winds blow______ (toward or away from) the north coast of Australia.
Toward
Precipitation along the north coast of Australia is ______ (greater, less, or the same) in January as compared to July.
greater
In Chile, Morocco, South Africa, and California, the major grape-growing regions are in areas of the climate type called _________, which is designated by the 2 letters______.
Mediterranean, CS
The most widespread type of agriculture practiced in areas with AF climates is called_______
shifting cultivation
According to the world population density map, most of Alaska and Australia are inhabited by ______ persons per square mile.
<2.5
The continent with the largest areas characterized by high birth and death rates is ________.
Africa
Literacy in the Philippines is______ (lower, higher, or the same) in comparison to Pakistan.
higher
The people of India receive, on the average _______ grams of protein daily.
50-70
In Vietnam, there are _______ people for every one physician.
25-50
The annual per-capita commercial energy consumption (coal equivalent) for Africa is _____ percent of the world total.
3.4
According to the "Principal Cities of the World" table, the metropolitan area of greater Tokyo contains _______ million people.
30.3
The percent of the adult population diagnosed HIV positive in South Africa is ______.
over 10%
According to the gross domestic product (GDP) chart and map in your atlas, _______percent of the world's population is categorized as having a per capita GNP of less than $1000.00.
7.5
In Nigeria, the infant mortality rate for children under one year of age is _____deaths per 1,000 live births.
72
According to the "World Political Information Table" in the atlas, the population per square mile in Egypt is ______ while in Saudi Arabia it is______.
195, 30
Most of North Africa and Arabia lies within the climate region called______ which is designated by the 3 letters______.
desert, Bwh
The coastal zones of Turkey, Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco experience a type of climate called _______.
Mediterranean
The birth rate in Iran is ______ (higher, lower, or the same) in comparison to that of Turkey.
higher
The GDP per capita of Libya is ________ (higher, lower or the same) in comparison to that of Morocco.
Same
The literacy rate in Ethiopia is _______ percent.
under 50%
The predominant language along the Algerian-Moroccan border is _______.
Berberic
Egypt's per-capita calorie supply is (higher or lower) that most of Africa_________.
higher
The realm's greatest producer of petroleum is the country of _________.
Saudi Arabia
The only independent countries of North Africa in 1950 were ______ and _______.
Egypt, Ethiopia
Africa connects to Asia by way of Egypt's _______ peninsula.
Sinai
The famed Sphinx and Giza pyramids lie just ______(northeast, northwest, southeast, or southwest) of Cairo.
Southwest
On the physical-political maps of Northern Africa and the middle east in your atlas, the long red-dotted lines represent_______ which crisscross the realm's arid countries.
caravan routes
The word erg appears in many places on maps of North Africa; it is an Arabic word meaning ________.
dune or sandy desert
The ruins of Babylon lie in the country now called ______, along a tributary of the _______River.
Iraq, Euphrates
The word wadi appears in several places on maps of Egypt and the Arabian Peninsula--always in association with a broken blue line. Wadi is an Arabic word meaning______.
Intermittent Stream
A pastoral people who speak a language of the Berber sub-group live in southern Algeria. The name of this culture group and their language is ______.
Tuareg
The world's principal exporter of dates is _______
United Arab Emirates (UAE)
Of the North African-Southwest Asian realm, the country that produces the most tobacco and wheat is ______.
Turkey
(True or False) According to the "Major Agricultural Regions" map, the most widespread economic activity in North Africa is nomadic herding_______.
True
The natural vegetation of western Equatorial Africa is _____, but the "Africa Environments" map shows that many portions of this land, like the area surrounding Yaounde, have bee converted to ______.
forest, cropland
On the same map, we see that the land around Kano is now used as ________ looking at the "vegetation" map, however, we see that the natural vegetation of that area was ________.
crop and grazing land, tall grass savanna
Of earthquakes, tropical storms, deserts, and volcanoes,_____________do not effect Ethiopia.
tropical storms + tusnamis
Khoisan, a language group once spoken over much of Africa, is now restricted primarily to the Bushmen and Hottentots of the ______ and _______ Deserts of Southern Africa.
Kalahan, Namib
The climate of Cape Town is most similar to that of ________
Istanbul
The distinctive rainfall on the island of Madagascar is due to the phenomenon known as _______ precipitation.
orographic
According to the "landforms" map, most of Africa has a _______ type of landform.
hills and low tablelands
The only 3 countries of Subsaharan Africa that were independent (not ruled by a foreign power) as of 1950 were ______, _________, and_________.
