Chapter 7
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
Help!
|
|
||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| show | Long-term biological maturation of the human species. Geographically, all evidence points toward East Africa as the source of humankind. Our species, Homo sapiens, emigrated from this hearth to eventually populate the rest of the habitable world.
🗑
|
||||
| show | The post-World War II standoff between the Soviet Union and the Western alliance led by the United States, which lasted from 1945 to the collapse of the USSR in 1991. Largely coincided with the postcolonial era
🗑
|
||||
| Rift valley | show 🗑
|
||||
| Continental drift | show 🗑
|
||||
| State formation | show 🗑
|
||||
| Ethnicity | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | A country whose population possesses a substantial degree of cultural homogeneity and unity. The ideal form to which most nations and states aspire—a political unit wherein the territorial state coincides with the area settled by a certain national group
🗑
|
||||
| show | British colonial practice that kept indigenous power structures in place, co-opting individual rulers. The purpose was to minimize armed conflict and maximize profits.
🗑
|
||||
| Land tenure | show 🗑
|
||||
| Land alienation | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | The successful late-twentieth-century development of higher-yield, fast-growing varieties of rice and other cereals in certain developing countries.
🗑
|
||||
| show | The agricultural operations of large, often multinational, corporations.
🗑
|
||||
| Medical geography | show 🗑
|
||||
| Endemic | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | A local or regional outbreak of a disease.
🗑
|
||||
| Pandemic | show 🗑
|
||||
| Multilingualism | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | The part of a national economy that is registered with government agencies and complies with laws and regulations, especially taxation. The complement to a country’s informal economy.
🗑
|
||||
| Informal economy | show 🗑
|
||||
| Sharia law | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | The violent, jihadist, terrorist organization that is based in— and controls parts of—northeastern Nigeria. It engages in extreme terrorist attacks, increasingly beyond its territory as it seeks to expand into other parts of the country
🗑
|
||||
| Anthropogenic | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | The dominant system of text-messaged money exchange in Subsaharan Africa that is attributable to the realm’s general lack of a formal banking infrastructure.
🗑
|
||||
| Cash economy | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | A bounded (non-island) piece of territory that is part of a particular state but lies separated from it by the territory of another state.
🗑
|
||||
| Apartheid | show 🗑
|
||||
| Xenophobia | show 🗑
|
Review the information in the table. When you are ready to quiz yourself you can hide individual columns or the entire table. Then you can click on the empty cells to reveal the answer. Try to recall what will be displayed before clicking the empty cell.
To hide a column, click on the column name.
To hide the entire table, click on the "Hide All" button.
You may also shuffle the rows of the table by clicking on the "Shuffle" button.
Or sort by any of the columns using the down arrow next to any column heading.
If you know all the data on any row, you can temporarily remove it by tapping the trash can to the right of the row.
To hide a column, click on the column name.
To hide the entire table, click on the "Hide All" button.
You may also shuffle the rows of the table by clicking on the "Shuffle" button.
Or sort by any of the columns using the down arrow next to any column heading.
If you know all the data on any row, you can temporarily remove it by tapping the trash can to the right of the row.
Embed Code - If you would like this activity on your web page, copy the script below and paste it into your web page.
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Created by:
pl251911
Popular Geography sets