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WC MidTerm study
Vocab For The World Culture Mid-Term
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Geography | Study of people, their environments, and their resources. |
| Location | Position of a place on the Earth's surface. |
| Latitude | Distance north or south of the Equator. |
| Longitude | Distance east or west of the Prime Meridian. |
| Geography | Study of people, their environments, and their resources. |
| Location | Position of a place on the Earth's surface. |
| Latitude | Distance north or south of the Equator. |
| Longitude | Distance east or west of the Prime Meridian. |
| Exports | Goods sent to markets outside of a country. |
| Imports | Goods brought into a country. |
| Interdependence | Mutual dependence of countries on goods, resources, and knowledge from other parts of the world. |
| Plain | Large area of level or gently rolling land. |
| Map Projection | Way of showing the curved Earth on a flat surface. |
| Topography | Physical features of a place or region. |
| Vegetation | Plant life of a place or region. |
| Elevation | Height above sea level. |
| Equator | Imaginary line that divides the Earth into the Northern and Southern hemispheres. |
| Plain | Large area of level or gently rolling land. |
| Prime Meridian | Imaginary line that divides the Earth into the Eastern and Western hemispheres. |
| Plateau | Large area of high flat, or gently rolling land. |
| Climate | Average weather of a place over a period of 20 to 30 years. |
| Mount Kilimanjaro | Mountain in northeastern Tanzania. |
| Equator | Imaginary line that divides the Earth into the Northern and Southern hemispheres. |
| Escapements | Steep cliffs on the side of a plateau in Africa. |
| Prime Meridian | Imaginary line that divides the Earth into the Eastern and Western hemispheres. |
| Cataracts | Large waterfall. |
| Mount Kilimanjaro | Mountain in northeastern Tanzania. |
| Escapements | Steep cliffs on the side of a plateau in Africa. |
| Great Rift Valley | Giant fault in East Africa extending from the Red Sea to the Zambezi River. |
| Cataracts | Large waterfall. |
| Great Rift Valley | Giant fault in East Africa extending from the Red Sea to the Zambezi River. |
| Hydroelectric Power | Energy produced by moving water. |
| Nile River | River in Egypt; flows northward through Egypt and empties |
| Congo River | Large river in Central Africa that empties into the Atlantic Ocean. |
| Niger River | River in West Africa. |
| Zambezi River | River in Southern Africa. |
| Mineral exports | Resources Europeans wanted from Africa |
| The Taureg | Nomadic people who live in the Sahara Desert. |
| Lake Victoria | Largest lake in Africa |
| Sahara Desert | Largest desert in world, extends across much of North Africa. |
| Democracy | Form of government in which the people have supreme power. |
| Democracy | |
| Diffusion | Movement of customs or ideas from one place to another |
| Dictatorship | Form of government in which a ruler holds power by force. |
| Diffusion | |
| Economy | |
| Extended Family | Several generations living in one household. |
| Ethnocentrism | Judging other cultures by the standards of one's own culture. |
| Monotheism | Worship of one god. |
| Nuclear Family | Generally, a wife, husband and their children. |
| Polytheism | Believe in more than one god. |
| Polytheism | |
| Racism | The thought that one racial group is more superior to another. |
| Social Class | |
| Subculture | Group of people within a society who have their own separate beliefs, values and customs. |
| Technology | Skills and tools people use. |
| Kinship | The relationship between people in a family. |
| Patrilineal Descent | Having more than one wife or husband. |
| Polygamy | |
| Dowry | The gift a wife or husband (depending on their religion) gives to their spouses family. |
| Shaman | Belief that spirits live in the natural world. |
| Bilineal Descent | |
| Apartheid | Rigid separation of races by law in South Africa. |
| Nelson Mandela | First South African president to be elected. |
| Animism | |
| Apartheid | |
| Abolition | Movement to end slavery. |
| Middle Passage | The route the slave ships sailed through |
| Imperialism | Control by one country of the political, economic, or cultural life of another country or region. |
| Abolition | Nationalist movement that began in the early 1900's and called for unifying all of Africa. |
| Olaudah Equiano | African involved in the British movement towards the abolition of the slave trade. |
| Middle Passage | |
| Pan-Africanism | |
| Olaudah Equiano | |
| Berlin Conference | From November 1884 to February 1885, European countries met in Berlin to divide Africa among themselves to colonize the continent. |
| Mungo Park | Scottish explorer of the African continent. |
| Tutsis | The people being killed during the Genocide. |
| David Livingstone | |
| Berlin Conference | |
| Cabildos | Councils established by Spain to govern the towns founded by Spanish settlers in Latin America |
| Hutus | The killers during the Genocide |
| Rwandan Patriotic Front | The people helping during the Genocide |
| Genocide | Deliberate killing of an ethnic or religious group. |
| Conquistadors | Spanish conquerors of Latin America |
| Viceroy | Official who rules in place of a king |
| Aztecs | |
| Incas | |
| Columbus | |
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