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Australia / Oceania
Europe / Russia
South / East Asia
Africa
SW Asia
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Final Jeopardy
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100 Question from Europe and Russia
The conflict between the U.S. and the Soviet
Union was called this because it never grew into
war.
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100 Answer from Europe and Russia
What is Cold War
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200 Question from Europe and Russia
Some geographers refer to this as the dividing
line between Europe Asia.
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200 Answer from Europe and Russia
What are the Ural Mountains?
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300 Question from Europe and Russia
This sea was damaged by damming of rivers and its
waters used for irrigation
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300 Answer from Europe and Russia
What is the Aral Sea?
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400 Question from Europe and Russia
An economy in which the communist government
makes all decisions about the economy is know as
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400 Answer from Europe and Russia
Command Economy
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500 Question from Europe and Russia
This term is used to describe a regions
distance away from the moderating influence of
the ocean
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500 Answer from Europe and Russia
What is continentality
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200 Question from Africa
Long, thin valleys that formed in Africa as
continental plates pulled apart
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200 Answer from Africa
What are rift valleys?
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100 Question from Africa
The Nile River flows north primarily through
Egypt and what other country?
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100 Answer from Africa
What is Sudan?
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300 Question from Africa
In the last couple of decades genocide in these
2 African countries made world headlines.
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300 Answer from Africa
Where are Rwanda Sudan?
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400 Question from Africa
List one of several reasons for the cause of
desertification
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400 Answer from Africa
What are overfarming and overgrazing of livestock
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500 Question from Africa
List direct results of colonialism in Africa
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500 Answer from Africa
Dictatorships, Heavy debt, Civil Wars
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100 Question from SW Asia
This is a place of worship for followers of Islam
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100 Answer from SW Asia
What is a mosque
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200 Question from SW Asia
This describes a government controlled by
religious leaders
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200 Answer from SW Asia
What is theocratic
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300 Question from SW Asia
This group of countries control the supply and
price of oil
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300 Answer from SW Asia
What is OPEC?
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400 Question from SW Asia
The death of this Islamic prophet led to the
divisions and conflict between the Sunnis and
the Shia.
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400 Answer from SW Asia
Who is Muhammad?
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500 Question from SW Asia
This term describes a resource so valuable that
nations will go to war to ensure a steady supply.
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500 Answer from SW Asia
What is strategic commodity
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100 Question from South / East Asia
This is the religion of most of the people in
India
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100 Answer from South / East Asia
What is Hinduism
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200 Question from South / East Asia
A system of social classes that existed in India
the Hindu religion for most of its history.
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200 Answer from South / East Asia
What is the caste system?
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300 Question from South / East Asia
The founder of Communist China
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300 Answer from South / East Asia
Who is Mao Zedong?
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400 Question from South / East Asia
This is not considered a basic necessity by
Indias government
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400 Answer from South / East Asia
What is education?
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500 Question from South / East Asia
Describe 2 reasons why Indian families continue
to have large numbers of children
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500 Answer from South / East Asia
What are they are a source of income, security
as the parents age, infant mortality is high.
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100 Question from Australia / Oceania
This is the name given to the chain of volcanoes
that line the Pacific Rim
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100 Answer from Australia / Oceania
What is Ring of Fire
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200 Question from Australia / Oceania
A ring-like island
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200 Answer from Australia / Oceania
What is an atoll?
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300 Question from Australia / Oceania
When Aboriginal children were placed with white
families by the government in forced assimilation.
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300 Answer from Australia / Oceania
What is the Stolen Generation?
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400 Question from Australia / Oceania
Australias agricultural and sheep-raising endeavo
rs have suffered greatly because
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400 Answer from Australia / Oceania
What is overpopulation of rabbits?
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500 Question from Australia/ Oceania
The U.S. got involved in the Vietnam War for the
same reason it got involved in the Korean War,
which was..
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500 Answer Australia / Oceania
What is to prevent the communist north from
taking over the south?
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Final Jeopardy
The terms referring to the land was empty, and
the government could take it freely refers to
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Final Jeopardy Answer
What is when the British declared Australia to
be Terra Nullius