Review Jeopardy

1. Review Jeopardy World Geography—Spring Semester (regional)

2. Category Board FINAL JEOPARDY

3. North America

4. North America– 100 POINTS Name 2 physical geographic advantages

5. North America– 200 POINTS Which technological innovation allowed for the connection of the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes and thereby drastically increasing industry in the Rust Belt

6. North America– 300 POINTS Give the full name for the organization that has increased trade on the North American continent….

7. North America– 400 POINTS Name the word that describes the reason that Quebec is trying to break away from the rest of Canada.

8. South America

9. South America– 100 POINTS Name one long-term effect of the destruction of the Brazilian Rainforest

10. South America– 200 POINTS Name the critical choke-point that cuts the journey from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean by 7,872 miles.

11. South America– 300 POINTS Explain how it is possible for Chileans to grow different crops at different elevations in the Andes Mountains

12. South America– 400 POINTS Name 3 long-term effects of the Columbian Exchange

13. Europe

14. Europe– 100 POINTS What oceanic phenomenon causes the British Isles to be warmer than its latitudinal equivalent in Canada?

15. Europe– 200 POINTS Name the political system used in the United Kingdom that has a hereditary political figure head as well as a legislative body with representatives.

16. Europe– 300 POINTS Name one long-term consequence of the Berlin Wall

17. Europe– 400 POINTS Name 2 economic advantages of European Union membership

18. Southwest Asia

19. Southwest Asia– 100 POINTS What type of physical barrier causes the population of Southwest Asia to be concentrated mainly on the coasts and along the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.

20. Southwest Asia– 200 POINTS Name the organization with several countries in Southwest Asia that has a near monopoly in the petroleum industry

21. Southwest Asia– 300 POINTS Which country contains both the Holy City for Islam as well as very rich petroleum reserves?

22. Southwest Asia– 400 POINTS Give the name of a city located in Israel that is considered sacred to the world’s three major monotheistic religions.

23. South Asia

24. South Asia– 100 POINTS What phenomenon gives India this climograph?

25. South Asia– 200 POINTS Name the phenomenon that created the physical barrier that trapped Hinduism in South Asia.

26. South Asia– 300 POINTS Name 2 negatives effects of the high population concentration in India.

27. South Asia– 400 POINTS Give the main reason why India has one of the largest concentration of English speakers in the world and therefore is the location where many customer service jobs are outsourced from the United States.

28. East Asia

29. East Asia– 100 POINTS Describe Japan’s natural resources

30. East Asia– 200 POINTS Give 2 advantages in the building of the Three Gorges Dam

31. East Asia– 300 POINTS Describe the methods of the communist-dictatorship of North Korea use to maintain control.

32. East Asia– 400 POINTS Why has China begun to shift from their communist economic to system to a more capitalist system?

33. Africa

34. Africa– 100 POINTS What meeting held in Germany in 1884 has ultimately led to decades of political unrest and strife in Africa as a result of European Colonialism.

35. Africa– 200 POINTS Name 2 natural barriers that prohibited European powers from easily colonizing the interior of the African continent.

36. Africa– 300 POINTS What policy did Nelson Mandela and later MLK Jr. borrow from Mahatma Ghandi to combat the racial segregation occurring in their countries?

37. Africa– 400 POINTS Name 2 effects of the desertification of the Sahel

38. FINAL JEOPARDY Name a policy of Western European nations that has caused political unrest in multiple regions around the world.