Geog Final Vocab
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
Help!
|
|
||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Archipelago | a chain or group of islands
🗑
|
||||
| Atlas | a book of maps
🗑
|
||||
| Channel | Body of water wider than a strait between to pieces of land
🗑
|
||||
| Climate | typical precipitation, wind and temperature for a place over a long length of time
🗑
|
||||
| Colony | Overseas settlement tied to a parent country
🗑
|
||||
| Commonwealth | partly self-governing territory
🗑
|
||||
| Communist state | Country whose government has strong control over the economy and society as a whole
🗑
|
||||
| Constitutional monarchy | Government in which a king or queen is the official head of state but elected official run the government
🗑
|
||||
| Culture | the way of life of a group of people who share similar beliefs and customs
🗑
|
||||
| Developed country | A country that has industry
🗑
|
||||
| Developing country | A country that is working towards having industry
🗑
|
||||
| Escarpment | Steep cliff between higher and lower land
🗑
|
||||
| Euro | Common currency (money) adopted by countries in the EU
🗑
|
||||
| Hurricane | Violent tropical storm with high winds and heavy rains
🗑
|
||||
| Industrialize | To change an economy to rely more on manufacturing and less on farming
🗑
|
||||
| Isthmus | Narrow strip of land connecting two larger pieces of land
🗑
|
||||
| Landlocked | Country with no land bordering a sea or ocean
🗑
|
||||
| Latitude | A series of horizontal lines used to measure the distance north and south of the equator
🗑
|
||||
| Mestizo | person of mixed Spanish and Native American background
🗑
|
||||
| Multilingual | Able to speak several languages
🗑
|
||||
| Neutrality | Refusal to take sides in disagreements and wars between countries
🗑
|
||||
| Parliamentary democracy | Government in which voter elect representative to a lawmaking body (parliament), which them choose a leader, the prime minister
🗑
|
||||
| Prime minister | Government leader chosen in a parliamentary democracy by members of parliament
🗑
|
||||
| Republic | Strong national government headed by elected leaders
🗑
|
||||
| Rural | relating to the countryside, not the city
🗑
|
||||
| Selva | Rainforest in Brazil
🗑
|
||||
| Service industry | business that provides services to people rather than producing goods
🗑
|
||||
| Subsistence farm | small plot where a farmer grows only enough food to feed his family
🗑
|
||||
| Urban | relating to the city, not the countryside
🗑
|
||||
| Welfare state | Country that uses tax money to support people who are sick, needy, jobless or retired
🗑
|
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:
arobinson
Popular Geography sets