geography quiz 5

What is the big boat and what canal did it get stuck in?

in the Suez Canal, 30 percent of world shipping goes through daily, is costing 9 billion dollars a day to have the ship stuck

What mountain chain is Machu Picchu in and why is it important?

Andes Mountains, it is the source of water for the Amazon River

What country is still in civil war in the Middle East?

Iraq

What is the Hajj and where is it?

a yearly pilgrimage that faithful Muslims should undertake once in their lives to Mecca, Saudi Arabia

What is nationalism?

when a group gets a very strong sense of itself and its rights to a particular piece of territory

How is nationalism different from citizenship?

a way of categorizing the people of your state, that invites the participation of citizens to be involved in their own sense of the nation, and gives power to the government

What is sovereignty?

you run your own country, there is a system of government set up that controls its state; The Kurds in Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Iran have a government, a culture, a language, and a nation but are not sovereign

How do states/coutnries get their borders?

geographic features: rivers and mountains in Eastern USA; straight lines: people in a room delegate space in Western USA; economic need: making strange protusions to oceans/water for ports in Alabama and Congo; culture: divided based on people and their traditional groups or culture

What is a transnational organization?

states make agreements and treaties or organizations about things that can cross borders; NAFTA, NATO, UN

What is a supranational organization?

states come together to allow a common organization to create common rules, they give up some aspects of sovereignty to a common organization; USA, EU

What is the heart of the “North-South Divide”?

the richest countries are in the north except Australia, NZ, and Brunei; colonialism drove this when the northern countries colonized the southern; ideas and developments and accidental clipper ship made countries go to others to gain control; countries left in 1950s but left great amounts of bent in south

What causes a famine?

they are created, not natural; political, weather, or war disruptions

How do pastoralists manage their land and get their food?

herding animals

What are the Agricultural Revolutions?

the First, Second, Third, Green, and Blue

What was the First Agricultural Revolution?

seeds and plows

What was the Second Agricultural Revolution?

land changes, fertilizers, knowledge

What was the Third Agricultural Revolution?

chemical fertilizers, mass farming, global markets

What was the Green Agricultural Revolution?

spreading seeds and knowledge across world

What was the Blue Agricultural Revolution?

mechanized fishing and larger boats with refrigeration

What is food insecurity?

have no stable source of food or cannot get food without a problematic situation occuring

What is land-grabbing?

the act of going to a poor country and buying a huge amount of land for a huge amount of money to get what they want or need

Who is land-grabbing and who is affected the most by it?

China is doing it to Southeastern Africa: Kenya, Tanzania, Botswana; China does not have much good agricultural land and it is cheaper than making their land better

Who runs Syria?

no one, they do not have sovereignty; the royal family did before they fled; now a third is held by the Kurdish and another by militias and terrorist groups

What does it mean to be a citizen on somewhere?

there is a dual relationship, each side gives and takes; you have expectations like jury duty but also have protections and guaranteed rights like the right to travel