Flashcards
Saharan Africa, Australia, Oceania and Antarctica
Cards in this deck (16)
- 1How does the Sahel Zone move from deserts to grassland climate zones?Periodic Droughts, along with overgrazing and firewood cutting
- 2What Mali emperor took his Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca in 1324?Mansa Musa
- 3Who did the United States support in the Democratic Republic of the Congo during the Cold War?A military dictator, to keep production up of minerals
- 4Where is HIV on the World Health Organizations list of the most global deaths?3rd Main Cause
- 5Why is Sudan excluded from this lesson?The Nile River links Sudan to Egypt and the north
- 6How much of the land in Botswana is the Kalahari Desert?70% of the country
- 7What are Shantytowns?Slum areas, it is the housing for 70% of urban population
- 8What kind of vegetation is the major kind in Australia?Several species of eucalyptus
- 9What geographic features are created allow the shield rocks and Great Dividing Range?Murray-Darling River system in the south and the Great Artesian Basin in the north
- 10What do Micronesian and Polynesian mean?Micronesian - "small islands"
Polynesian - "many islands" - 11How did the Oceania's island towns begin?As colonial ports, and then as political capitals after independance
- 12How was the Australian capital dispute resolved?Sydney and Melbourne each wanted to be the capital, but created the new capital of Canberra
- 13What is the largest island besides Australia and New Zealand?Papua New Guinea and Irian Jaya (part of Indonesia)
- 14What country has the highest per capita income in the region?Nauru
- 15What is the Antarctic Treaty?It created nonmilitary scientific cooperation, environmental safeguards and international control.
- 16What is the Antarctic Treaty System?The governing body for Antarctic research, prohibits military use or weapons testing