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History 7.1
Region: A Definition
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| animism | a belief that lifeless objects have spirits |
| climate | the average weather of a region over a long period |
| continent | a large land mass |
| desert | a barren region that has little or no rainfall |
| equator | the imaginary line dividing the Northern Hemispher and the Southern Hemishere |
| middle latitudes | a climatic region halfway between the equator and the poles |
| interdependent | unable to work or functio without each other within a group |
| Islam | the religion founded by Mohammed |
| Judeo-Christian | the culture of the Western world |
| nationalism | the belief that a nation would be better off acting alone rather than with other nations |
| prime meridian | the imaginary line that separates the Eastern Hemisphere and the Western Hemisphere |
| region | an area having a dominant characteristic |
| secular ideologies | nonreligious ways of looking at the world |
| superficial | on the surface , trivial , not significant |
| tropics | the hot region near the equator |