Adv. World Geo Final – Flashcards
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| Barack Obama |
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| United States |
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| Stephen Harper |
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| Canada |
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| Felipe Calderon |
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| Mexico |
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| Fidel Castro |
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| Cuba |
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| Raul Castro |
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| Cuba |
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| David Cameron |
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| England |
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| Angela Merkel |
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| Germany |
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| Benjamin Netanyahu |
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| Israel (Prime Minister) |
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| Shimon Peres |
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| Israel (President) |
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| Ayatollah Khomeini |
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| Iran |
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| Mahmud Ahmadinejad |
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| Iran |
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| Saddam Hussein |
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| Iraq |
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| Yassir Arafat |
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| Palestine |
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| Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf |
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| Liberia |
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| Charles Taylor |
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| Liberia |
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| Nelson Mandela |
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| South Africa |
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| Mohandas Gandhi |
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| India |
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| Kim Jong II |
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| North Korea |
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| Kim Jong Un |
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| North Korea |
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| Mao Ze Dong |
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| China |
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| Pol Pot |
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| Cambodia |
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| Dalai Lama |
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| Tibet |
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| Vladimir Putin |
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| Russia |
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| Osama bin Laden |
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| Saudi Arabia |
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| OPEC |
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| Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries |
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| NAFTA |
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| North American Free Trade Agreement |
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| CAFTA |
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| Central American Free Trade Agreement |
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| EU |
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| European Union |
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| The Taliban |
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| A Muslim fundamentalist group in Afghanistan |
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| IRA |
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| Irish Republican Army |
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| The Basque |
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| Group in Spain |
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| PLO |
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| Palestine Liberation Organization |
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| AU |
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| African Union |
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| NATO |
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| North Atlantic Treaty Organization |
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| peninsula |
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| Land surrounded by water on three sides |
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| isthmus |
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| Narrow strip of land, bordered by water on both sides, connecting two larger bodies of land |
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| enclave |
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| Country surrounded completely by other countries |
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| archipelago |
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| Group of islands |
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| delta |
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| The land that forms at the mouth of some rivers by soil that is dropped as the river slows and enters the sea |
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| strait |
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| A narrow passage of water connecting two large bodies of water |
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| tributary |
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| Rivers and streams that carry water to a major river |
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| canal |
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| Artificial waterways |
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| bay |
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| Body of water forming on indentation of the shorline |
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| cape |
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| A piece of land gutting into the sea or some other large body of water |
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| harbor |
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| A place for anchoring a ship |
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| channel |
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| The bed of a stream |
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| plain |
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| A flat piece of land |
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| abdicate |
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| To renounce a throne |
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| immigrant |
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| People who move into the country |
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| emigrant |
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| People who leave the country to live in other places |
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| secular |
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| Not pertaining to things that are religious |
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| latitude |
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| North/south from the equator |
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| longitude |
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| East/west from prime meridian |
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| Hispanola |
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| Island with the Dominican Republic and Haiti |
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| Zionism |
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| Belief that there should be a Jewish homeland |
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| theocracy |
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| God as a supreme civil ruler |
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| embargo |
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| Restriction on trade |
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| coniferous |
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| Pertaining to conifers |
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| guerilla |
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| Armed forces outside the regular army |
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| coup |
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| Sudden overthrow of a ruler or government, using force of threat of force |
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| inflation |
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| Rise in prices in relation to rise of value of money, loss of currency value |
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| tariff |
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| A list showing customs imposed by government on imports and exports |
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| Unitary |
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| One central government that runs through the nation |
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| monotheistic* |
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| Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Sikhism |
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| 8 Noble Truths* |
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| Buddhism |
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| Wailing Wall* |
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| Judaism |
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| Yom Kippur* |
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| Judaism |
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| Family wise connected to Abraham* |
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| Judaism |
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| Combines Hinduism and Islam* |
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| Sikhism |
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| Mecca* |
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| Islam |
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| Chanukah* |
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| Judaism |
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| Hajj* |
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| Islam |
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| Brahman* |
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| Hindu |
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| Ramadan* |
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| Islam |
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| Medina* |
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| Islam |
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| prayer 5 times a day* |
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| Islam |
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| Koran* |
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| Islam |
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| Protestant Reformation* |
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| Christianity |
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| Allah* |
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| Islam |
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| Shiva* |
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| Hindu |
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| church* |
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| Christianity |
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| Torah* |
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| Judaism |
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| Jerusalem is a holy city* |
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| Islam, Christianity, Judaism |
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| Vishnu* |
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| Hindu |
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| synagogue* |
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| Judaism |
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| Muhammad* |
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| Islam |
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| Rabbi* |
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| Judaism |
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| mosque* |
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| Islam |
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| Karma* |
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| Buddhism, Hindu |
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| Bible* |
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| Christianity |
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| Rosh Hashanah* |
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| Judaism |
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| Israel* |
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| Islam, Judaism, Christianity |
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| Passover* |
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| Judaism |
