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7th Grade
05/14/2012

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Who makes all the decisions in a common economy?
Definition
the government
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What is the type of vegetation that grows in an ice cap climate?
Definition
lichens
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What is a way that geographers divide the earth into 2 hemispheres?
Definition
along the equator
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What is globalization?
Definition
the development of a world culture and an interdependent economy
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Who were the Axis Powers during WW2?
Definition
Germany, Japan, and Italy
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Why was some of the worst water and air pollution in Europe caused by factories in Poland?
Definition
because they were under communist rule
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Where is the larges Eastern European country excluding Russia?
Definition
the large area of farmland in Ukraine
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What was the Protestant Reformation?
Definition
a movement to change the Catholic Church
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What in Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan is causing the Aral Sea to rapidly dry up?
Definition
irrigation
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What happens when an economy industrializes?
Definition
it changes to rely more on manufacturing and less on farming
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Who forced Russian nobility to accept and adopt European ways?
Definition
Peter the Great
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What did the communists fear when the Russian capital was moved from St. Petersburg to Moscow?
Definition
invasion
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What did Muslims call the time Muhammed was force to flee Makkan?
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the Hijran
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Since when has one political parth have control over Syria's government and restricted political freedoms?
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1960s
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Who believes that Moses revealed god's law in the form of the 10 commandments?
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Jews (and Christians!!)
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What are the descendants of the Arabs and Berbers who conquered Spain in the AD 700s?
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Moors
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What country in Africa has many natural resources and coastal ports?
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Cameroon
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What is the only country in West Africa that never was a European Colony?
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Liberia
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What is the country of Equatorial Guinea made up of?
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5 offshore islands plus a small territory on the west coast of Africa
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Who were the powerfula and wealthy kingdoms that ruled west Africa's coastal regions?
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Ashanti and Abomey
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London
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England
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Paris
Definition
France
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Cape Town
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South Africa
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Moscow
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Russia
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Rome
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Italy
Term
Sao Paulo
Definition
Brazil
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New York
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New York
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Toronto
Definition
Canada
Term
Madrid
Definition
Spain
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Buenos Aries
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Argentina
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What is the main economic activity in most mainland southeast Asia countries?
Definition
farming
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What is the only Indonesian island where the people are mostly Hindus?
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Bali
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What wast eh first Islamic country to elect a female prime minister?
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Pakistan
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Japan's fishing fleet provides what percentage of the world's fish?
Definition
15%
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Who inherits the right to rule in a monarchy?
Definition
kings and queens
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Who inherits the right to rule in a monarchy?
Definition
kings and queens
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Who inherits the right to rule in a monarchy?
Definition
kings and queens
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Who inherits the right to rule in a monarchy?
Definition
kings and queens
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What on the earth changes as sunlight falls on different parts of the earth at different times during the year?
Definition
the seasons
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What are the major world religions?
Definition
Buddhism, Christianity, ISlam, and Judahism
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What is free trade?
Definition
taking down of trade barriers so that goods flow freely
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Who was the first pope to come from Poland?
Definition
Pope John Paul the second
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When did the US and other nations bomb Serbia to try toe end conflict in Kosovo?
Definition
in 1999
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When, in the period of renewed intrest in education, art adn science was called the Renaissance?
Definition
1350
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What is the North European Plain?
Definition
a fertile area that stretches from France to Russia
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What is the competition for world influence between the US and Soviet Union after WW2?
Definition
The Cold War
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During the Cold War, the Eastern European countries formed an imaginary line called what?
Definition
the Iron Curtain
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What is a federal republic?
Definition
a nation in which power is divided between national and state governments
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What country has 11 time zones because it is very wide?
Definition
Russia
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Who made a form of paper out of a plant called paprus?
Definition
Ancient Egyptians
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What is the name of the group that works to increase incom from the sale fo oil?
Definition
OPEC
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When did Mansa Musa, Mali's ruler, make a tombouctu- a leading center of Islamic Learning?
Definition
1300s
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Because of its location on the Equator, who has a tropical climate?
Definition
Democratic Republic
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