brad talley alcott middle school norman, ok [email protected]
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Amsterdam Athens Belgrade Berlin Brussels Budapest Copenhagen Dublin Helsinki Kiev
Lisbon London Madrid Moscow Oslo Paris Prague Reykjavik Rome Sarajevo
Sofia Stockholm Vienna Warsaw Abuja Addis Ababa
Algiers Brazzaville Cairo Pretoria Cape Town Bloemfontein
Dar es Salaam Djibouti Harare Khartoum Kinshasa Luanda Lusaka Maputo Mogadish
uMonrovia
Nairobi Ouagadougou Rabat Tripoli Tunis Yaoundé Abu Dhabi Amman Ankara Astana
Baghdad Baku Bangkok Beijing Beirut Bishkek Damascus Dhaka Hanoi Islamabad
Jakarta Jerusalem Kabul Kathmandu Kuala Lumpur
Kuwait Manila New Dehli Phnom Penh
P’yongyang
Riyadh Sanaa Seoul Singapore Taipei Tashkent T’bilisi Tehran Tokyo Yerevan
Apia Canberra Funafuti Honiara Port Moresby
Suva Wellington Indian Ocean
Southern Ocean
Pacific Ocean
Atlantic Ocean
Death Star
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Tatooine*
Talus* Rori* Naboo* Lok* Endor* Alcott Norman
Protocol1) Draw a slip.
2) If it is a country, identify the capital to choose a definition.3) If it you draw a body of water, Star Wars planet (*), or local place choose that one.
1. Get an L to J paper ready.2. This week, title it with your favorite ice
cream flavor.3. Put your name on it.4. Don’t number!5. Get your notebook.
an area of rich farmland in Southwest Asia where the first civilizations began
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Fertile Crescent
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a way of supplying water to an area of land
irrigation
MenuAthens, Greece
an amount of something left over when requirements have been met; an excess
of production or supply over demand
surplus
MenuBelgrade, Serbia
an arrangement in which each worker specializes in a particular job or task
division of labor
MenuBerlin, Germany
the belief in multiple gods
polytheism
MenuBrussels, Belgium
the religion of the Hebrews and the oldest monotheistic religion
Judaism
MenuBudapest, Hungary
the journey in which Moses led his people out of Egypt
ExodusMenu
Copenhagen, Denmark
the belief in one god
monotheism
MenuDublin, Ireland
the most sacred text in Judaism
Torah
MenuHelsinki, Finland
in Judaism, a new leader that would appear among the Jews and restore greatness to
ancient Israel
Messiah
MenuKiev, Ukraine
a major world religion based on the teachings of Jesus
Christianity
MenuLisbon, Spain
the holy book for Christianity
BibleMenu
London, England
a religion based on the messages that Muhammad is believed to have
received from God
IslamMenu
Madrid, Spain
a follower of Islam
Muslim
MenuMoscow, Russian
the holy book of Islam
Qur’an
MenuOslo, Norway
a building for Muslim prayer
mosque
MenuParis, France
five acts of worship required of all Muslims
Five Pillars of Islam
MenuPrague, Czech Republic
a radical Muslim group that rose to power in Afghanistan in the mid-1990s
Taliban
MenuReykjavik, Iceland
farming that relies on rainfall instead of irrigation
dryland farming
MenuRome, Italy
land that is suitable for growing crops
arable
MenuSarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina
a landform at the mouth of a river created by sediment deposits
delta
MenuSofia, Bulgaria
goods brought in from other regions
imports
MenuStockholm, Sweden
items sent to other regions for trade
exports
MenuVienna, Austria
finely ground fertile soil that is good for growing crops
silt
MenuWarsaw, Poland
a wet, fertile area in a desert where a spring or well provides water
oasis
MenuAbuja, Nigeria
a city in which almost no taxes are placed on goods
free port
MenuAddis Ababa, Ethiopia
a ruler who has almost absolute power
dictator
MenuAlgiers, Algeria
the spread of desert-like conditions
desertification
MenuBrazzaville, Republic of the Congo
an area of tall grasses and scattered trees and shrubs
savanna
MenuCairo, Egypt
the separation of religion and government; nonreligious
secular
MenuPretoria, South Africa
Bloemfontein, South AfricaCape Town, South Africa
to break away from the main country
secede
MenuDar es Salaam, Tanzania
an extreme shortage of food
famine
MenuDjibouti, Djibouti
an attempt to dominate a country’s government, trade and culture
imperialism
MenuHarare, Zimbabwe
the intentional destruction of a people
genocide
MenuKhartoum, Sudan
a generally flat region surrounded by higher land such as mountains and
plateaus
basin
MenuKinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo
a regional variety of language
dialects
MenuLuanda, Angola
the rise in prices that occurs when currency loses its buying power
inflation
MenuLusaka, Zambia
a steep face at the edge of a plateau or other raised area
escarpment
MenuMaputo, Mozambique
South Africa’s government policy of separation of races that was abandoned in the 1980s and 1990s
apartheid
MenuMogadishu, Somalia
crowded clusters of small homes in South Africa outside of cities where black South
Africans lived
township
MenuMonrovia, Liberia
the division of Indian society into groups based on birth or occupation
caste system
MenuNairobi, Kenya
a Hindu and Buddhist belief that souls are born and reborn many times into
new bodies
reincarnationMenu
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
a Hindu or Buddhist belief that good or bad actions have an effect on people’s
souls
karma
MenuRabat, Morocco
a large landmass that is smaller than a continent
subcontinentMenu
Tripoli, Libya
seasonal winds that bring either dry or moist air to an area
monsoons
MenuTunis, Tunisia
the main religion in India that teaches that everything is part of a universal spirit
called Brahman
Hinduism
MenuYaoundé, Cameroon
a religion based on the teachings of the Buddha that developed in India
in the 500s BC
BuddhismMenu
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
a territory inhabited and controlled by people from a
foreign land
colony
MenuAmman, Jordan
the action or state of dividing or being divided into parts
partition
MenuAnkara, Turkey
the increase in the percentage of people who live in cities
urbanization
MenuAstana, Kazakhstan
a program that encouraged farmers to adopt modern agricultural methods to
produce more food
green revolution
MenuBaghdad, Iraq
an economic system in which the central government makes all
economic decisions
command economy
MenuBaku, Azerbaijan
a destructive and fast moving wave
tsunami
MenuBangkok, Thailand
when a country exports more goods than it imports
trade surplus
MenuBeijing, China
a fee that a country charges on imports or exports
tariff
MenuBeirut, Lebanon
an empty buffer zone created to keep two countries from fighting
demilitarized zone
MenuBishkek, Kyrgyzstan
the idea that if one country fell to Communism, neighboring countries would follow like falling dominoes
domino theory
MenuDamascus, Syria
rights that all people deserve
human rights
MenuDhaka, Bangledash
a chain of rocky material found in shallow tropical waters
coral reef
MenuHanoi, Vietnam
a ring-shaped coral island that surrounds a lagoon
atoll
MenuIslamabad, Pakistan
an area that is under the authority of another government
territoryMenu
Jakarta, Indonesia
a ledge of ice that extends over water
ice shelf
MenuJerusalem, Israel
a high latitude region that receives little precipitation
Polar desert
MenuKabul, Afghanistan
a layer of the Earth’s atmosphere that protects living things from the harmful
effects of the sun’s UV rays
ozone layer
MenuKathmandu, Nepal
a type of government in which a king shares power with an elected parliament
and a prime minister
parliamentary monarchy
MenuKuala Lumpur, Malaysia
energy produced from the heat of the Earth’s interior
geothermal energy
MenuKuwait, Kuwait
a type of democracy in which a monarch serves as head of state but a legislature makes
the laws
constitutional monarchy
MenuManila, Phillipines
not taking sides in an international conflict
neutral
MenuNew Dehli, India
not able to support human life
uninhabitable
MenuPhnom Penh, Cambodia
a spring that shoots hot water and steam into the air
geysers
MenuP’yongyang, North Korea
a set of resources, like roads and factories, that a country needs to
support economic activities
infrastructure
MenuRiyadh, Saudi Arabia
the effort to remove all members of an ethnic group from a country or
region
ethnic cleansing
MenuSanaa, Yemen
a Russian emperor
czar
MenuSeoul, South Korea
Muslims who believe that true interpretation of Islamic teaching can only come from certain religious and
political leaders called imams
ShiaMenu
Singapore, Singapore
Muslims who believe in the ability of the majority of Muslims in the community to
interpret Islamic teachings
Sunni
MenuTaipei, Taiwan
an international organization whose members work to influence the price of oil on world markets by controlling the supply
OPEC
MenuTashkent, Uzbekistan
a limit on trade
embargo
MenuT’bilisi, Georgia
a government ruled by religious leaders
theocracy
MenuTehran, Iran
a general description of where a place lies
relative location
MenuTokyo, Japan
a specific description of where a place lies
absolute location
MenuYerevan, Armenia
the land, water, climate, plants, and animals of an area
environment
MenuApia, Samoa
the study of the world’s physical features
physical geography
MenuCanberra, Australia
the study of the world’s people, communities, and landscapes
human geography
MenuFunafuti, Tuvalu
the value of all goods and services produced within a
country in a single year
gross domestic product
MenuHoniara, Solomon Islands
countries with strong economies and people with longer life spans, access
to modern healthcare, and higher literacy skills
developed countries
MenuPort Moresby, Papau New Guinea
countries with less productive economies and people with shorter
life spans, less access to modern healthcare, and lower literacy skills
developing countriesMenu
Suva, Fiji
the process in which countries are increasingly linked to each other
through culture and trade
globalization
MenuWellington, New Zealand
a region’s average weather conditions over a long period of time
climate
MenuIndian Ocean
a group of plants and animals that depend on each other for survival, and the environment in which they
live
ecosystem
MenuSouthern Ocean
an area with one or more features that make it different from
surrounding areas
region
MenuPacific Ocean
the study of the world’s people, places, and landscapes
geographyMenu
Atlantic Ocean
the distance north or south of the Equator
latitude
MenuDeath Star
the distance east or west from the Prime Meridian
longitudeMenu
Tatooine
the imaginary line of latitude that circles the globe halfway between
the North and South Poles at 0 degrees
Equator
MenuTalus
Imaginary line of longitude that circles the globe at 0 degrees longitude
Prime Meridian
MenuRori
half of the Earth, divided by either the Equator or the Prime Meridian
hemisphere
MenuNaboo
large land mass that is part of the Earth’s crust
continentMenu
Lok
an area of land surrounded entirely by water
islandMenu
Endor
a circle on a map or globe that shows the principal directions
compass rose
MenuAlcott Middle School
the relationship (or ratio) between distance on a map and the
corresponding distance on the ground
scaleMenu
Norman, OK