World History Geography and Map Skills Flashcards

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The AP world essay questions will ask you to compare and contrast regions and to analyze regional changes and continuities over time. If AP asks you to analyze East Asia, discussing India (South Asia) would be a "0".

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7239971151	Eurasia	____ is the landmass made up of Asia & Europe. The idea that Europe and Asia are separate continents goes back many centuries, but scholars who accept the definition of a continent as "a large landmass surrounded, or nearly surrounded, by water" know that the definition applies to neither Europe nor Asia because these two landmasses are conjoined. Most world historians define Europe as a subcontinent of Eurasia.	0
7239971152	Americas	The ______ are made up of the continents of North America and South America, including neighboring islands, notably the islands of the Caribbean Sea. Until the twentieth century, most geography books classified North and South America together as a single continent, labeling them the "New World" ("new" to Europeans beginning in the late fifteenth century CE) in contradistinction to the "Old World," that is Afroeurasia.	1
7239971153	East Asia	The Yellow region is called ?	2
7239971154	Southeast Asia	The Dark Green region is called?	3
7239971155	South Asia	The Purple region is called?	4
7239971156	Middle East	The Bright Green region is called?	5
7239971157	Sub-Saharan Africa	The Dark Brown region is called?	6
7239971158	North Africa	The Light Brown region is called?	7
7239971159	North America	The Dark Orange region is called?	8
7239971160	Oceania	The Grey region is called?	9
7239971161	equator	the latitude line around the middle of the Earth 0 Latitude	10
7239971162	prime meridian	the longitude line around the middle of the Earth (0 degrees Greenwich England)	11
7239971163	latitude lines	lines that run east to west on the globe	12
7239971164	longitude lines	lines that run north to south on the globe	13
7239971165	compass rose	a symbol that shows direction on a map	14
7239971166	north pole	the most northern spot on earth	15
7239971167	south pole	Earth's most southern point	16
7239971168	cardinal directions	North, East, South, West	17
7239971169	intermediate directions	Northeast, Northwest, Southeast, Southwest	18
7239971170	continents	Large land masses	19
7239971171	four hemispheres	North, west, east, and south parts on globe	20
7239971172	Africa	What is this continent?	21
7239971173	North America	What is this continent?	22
7239971174	South America	What is this continent?	23
7239971175	Europe	What is this continent?	24
7239971176	Asia	What is this continent?	25
7239971177	Oceania	What is this continent?	26
7239971178	Anartica	What is this continent?	27
7239971179	Pacific Ocean	What is this ocean?	28
7239971180	Atlantic Ocean	What is this ocean?	29
7239971181	Indian Ocean	What is this ocean?	30
7239971182	Artic Ocean	What is this ocean?	31
7239971183	Anartic Ocean	What is this ocean?	32
7239971184	Yellow River	What is this river?	33
7239971185	Yangtze River	What is this river?	34
7239971186	Indus River	What is this river?	35
7239971187	Euphrates River	What is this river?	36
7239971188	Tigris River	What is this river?	37
7239971189	Nile River	What is this river?	38
7239971190	Latitude	What is this measurement?	39
7239971191	Longitude	What is this measurement?	40
7239971192	Absolute Location	The exact position of a place on the earth's surface.	41
7239971193	Relative location	Location in relation to other places	42
7239971194	Human-Environment Interaction	The way people change their environment and how the environment changes them.	43
7239971195	Movement	how people, goods, and ideas get from one place to another	44
7239971196	Region	an area with common features that set it apart from other areas	45