This page will be used to list vocabulary words used in class. The words can also be found here on Quizlet.com, a free website that students can create flashcards, play games with the vocabulary words, create their own lists, etc.
List 1:
ETHNIC GROUP Group of people who share a common race, language, and culture.
RELIGIOUS GROUP Group of people who share a common system of beliefs.
IRRIGATION Providing water to crops using pipes, ditches, etc.
DESALINATION The process used to convert sea water to freshwater for drinking.
OPEC Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries.
AGRICULTURE Farming; growing crops and raising animals for food.
NOMADIC Migratory lifestyle.
OPEC Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. Controls the supply and price of oil.
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ARID Very dry.
UNEQUAL DISTRIBUTION Unequal access to resources needed for survival and economic growth.
SUNNI Branch of Islam that believes that the leader can be any qualified Muslim; Majority of Muslims are Sunni.
SHIA Branch of Islam that believes the leader must be a descendant of Muhammad (mostly in Iran).
SUEZ CANAL Man made waterway connecting the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea.
GEOGRAPHY Study of how things are arranged or distributed across the earth's surface.
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URBAN Related to a city
STRAIT OF HORMUZ Narrow waterway connecting the Persian Gulf to the Arabian Sea.
RURAL Characteristic of country life.
SCARCE Very limited supply.
RESERVOIR Human made place for storing water.
PARTITIONING to split into parts
Ex: After WWI, France and Great Britain partitioned the Ottoman Empire to form countries in the Middle East (oil).
NATURAL RESOURCES Minerals, freshwater, arable land, timber, fossil fuels.
INFRASTRUCTURE Facilities and services needed to support economic development; water and service lines, roads, highways, power.
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LITERACY RATE percent of population with the ability to read and write increase in literacy rate leads to an increase in standard of living.
ANTI-SEMITISM Racism against Jews.
ZIONISM Jewish Nationalism movement to restore their homeland of Israel (1948).
AUTOCRACY Dictatorship; no citizen participation.
OLIGARCHY Rule by a small group; limited citizen participation.
DEMOCRACY Citizens participate by voting or running for office; parliamentary or presidential.
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IMPERIALISM Empire building; Colonial rule to gain raw materials, land, labor, and taxes.
NATIONALISM Extreme loyalty to one's country and culture. Nationalism usually leads to independence.
HOW CITIZENS PARTICIPATE: Autocracy, oligarchy, democracy (parliamentary, presidential)
HOW GOVERNMENTS DISTRIBUTE POWER: Federal, unitary, confederate
FEDERAL Power is shared or divided between the central authority and regional authorities
UNITARY One central government has the power
CONFEDERATION Loose alliance between countries. Ex: United Nations, European Union.
MONARCHY Rule by a king or queen; constitutional (U.K., Japan) or absolute (Saudi Arabia)
THEOCRACY Rule by a religious leader or God (Iran)
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GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT GDP: Total market value of goods and services produced by a country’s economy during a specific period of time.
HUMAN CAPITAL: people who perform labor
CAPITAL: factories and machinery
ENTREPRENEURSHIP: Ideas, innovation and risks to starting a business
TRADE BARRIERS: Restrict trade because they want to buy and sell their own goods
TARIFFS: Taxes on imported goods. Increases demand for local products. Example: foreign car
QUOTAS: Restricts amounts of a good that can be imported. Can cause shortages causing price to rise
TRADE EMBARGOES: Forbid trade with another country
CURRENCY: Type of money a country uses
FOREIGN EXCHANGE: When money from one country is converted to that of another country ex. Turkey lira to Afghanistan afghani.
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SADDAM HUSSEIN dictator of Iraq who invaded Kuwait for their oil. This caused the Persian Gulf War in 1991 (Desert Storm.) He was later accused of having Weapons of Mass Destruction. This lead to the second invasion of Iraq in 2003 (Operation Iraqi Freedom.)
OSAMA BIN LADIN Leader of the terrorist group Al Qaeda, that attacked the U.S. on Sept. 11, 2001. Taken out by Navy Seals in May 2011.
ECONOMICS The study of how people use limited resources to meet needs and wants.
MARKET ECONOMY Economic system in which choices are made by consumers, producers, and entrepreneurs.
COMMAND ECONOMY Economic system run by the government.
TRADITIONAL ECONOMY Economic system in which custom and tradition determine what to produce, how to produce, and for whom to produce.
MIXED ECONOMY Combination of command and market economies. All countries have a mixed economy.
FAVORABLE BALANCE OF TRADE When a country exports more goods than it imports.
(Exports > Imports)
POLITICAL TRADE BARRIERS Tariff, Quota, Embargo (Sanction); motivates consumers to buy domestic goods
HOLOCAUST Killing of 6 million Jews during World War 2 by Germany Chancellor Adolf Hitler.
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GANGES RIVER: Starts in Himalayan Mountains, travels 1,500 miles to Indian Ocean. Most important river in Indian subcontinent. Runs through India’s most fertile and populated areas. River named for Hindu goddess and considered sacred.
HUANG HE (YELOW RIVER): China's second longest river, called "China's Sorrow" because of its devastating floods. Chinese civilization began in central area of river basin. Names Yellow River for muddy yellow silt it carries along its path through China. It empties into the Gulf of Bohai in the northern Yellow Sea.
INDUS RIVER: Provides water for one of largest irrigation systems of the world. Indus River begins high in Himalayas in Tibet. Slowing down as it runs through India and Pakistan, it flows through desert before emptying into the Arabian Sea.
MEKONG RIVER: Flowing through China, Myanmar (Burma), Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam, the Mekong River affects the lives of 60 million people, many of whom are the poorest people in the world. One of the region's most important crops, rice, is grown in the Mekong Basin.
YANGTZE (CHANG JIANG) RIVER: The largest/longest river in China, the Yangtze River is the third longest in the world. The Yangtze is extremely important to China, providing hydroelectric power, water for irrigation, and transportation for cargo ships.
BAY OF BENGAL: Arm of Indian Ocean with India to its west and Myanmar to its east. Many large rivers, including the Ganges River, flow into the bay.
GOBI DESERT: Known as Shamo, meaning "sand desert," it is Asia's largest desert. It stretches across southern Mongolia and northern China. The famous traveler Marco Polo and two of his relatives were the first to cross the desert around 1275.
TAKLIMAKAN DESERT: Located in northwestern China, the Taklimakan Desert is nestled between two rugged mountain ranges. Shifting, crescent-shaped dunes cover 85 percent of its surface.
HIMALAYAN MOUNTAINS: Lying along the northern edge of the Indian subcontinent, the Himalayan mountain range is the world's highest mountain region. Nine of the world's ten tallest peaks are located in the Himalayas, including Mt. Everest, the highest mountain in the world.
KOREAN PENINSULA: Juts out of northeastern China. Since 1948, this peninsula has been divided into two counties: The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) and the Republic of Korea (South Korea.)
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GANGES RIVER: Starts in Himalayan Mountains, travels 1,500 miles to Indian Ocean. Most important river in Indian subcontinent. Runs through India’s most fertile and populated areas. River named for Hindu goddess and considered sacred.
MEKONG RIVER: Flowing through China, Myanmar (Burma), Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam, the Mekong River affects the lives of 60 million people, many of whom are the poorest people in the world. One of the region's most important crops, rice, is grown in the Mekong Basin.
YANGTZE (CHANG JIANG) RIVER: The largest/longest river in China, the Yangtze River is the third longest in the world. The Yangtze is extremely important to China, providing hydroelectric power, water for irrigation, and transportation for cargo ships.
ASIAN BROWN CLOUD Air pollution over Asia caused by industry, automobiles, and burning wood for cooking and heating in rural areas.
MONSOON a seasonal wind pattern in southern Asia that blows warm, moist air from the southwest during the summer, bringing heavy rains, and cold, dry air from the northeast during the winter
ARCHIPELAGO a group of islands
DESERTIFICATION The process by which fertile land becomes desert, typically as a result of drought, deforestation, or inappropriate agriculture.
List 10:
ENLIGHTENMENT Awakening to ultimate truth
REINCARNATION Cycle of rebirth in Hinduism and Buddhism
KARMA Good or bad behavior that determines one's position in this life or the next
KAMI Nature spirits; spirits of ancestors in Shintoism
VEDAS Hindu sacred texts
NIRVANA Perfect state of being; freedom from the cycle of reincarnation (Buddhist belief)
MOKSHA Release from the cycle of reincarnation (Hindu belief)
TRIPITAKA Sacred text of Buddhism
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CEREMONIAL LEADER: a person who holds the title as the highest leader of a country but has no real political power
COMMUNIST: referring to a system of government in which the state controls the economy and a single, often authoritarian party holds power, claiming to make progress toward a higher social order in which all goods are equally shared by the people
FEDERAL REPUBLIC: a state in which supreme power is held by the people and their elected representatives; democratic; division of power
CONSTITUTIONAL MONARCHY: A King or Queen is the official head of state but power is limited by a constitution. Elected officials run the government.
SUFFRAGE: The right to vote
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SOCIALIST MARKET ECONOMY: China’s economy as it switches from command economy to mixed market economy. As part of economic reforms, moving from complete government control and allowing more foreign investment.
COMMAND ECONOMY: Complete government control. North Korea government controls all resources and decides what will be produced.
MIXED MARKET ECONOMY: Mixture of government control of some industries and private enterprise as in Japan, which imports raw materials and exports ships, cars, and electronics.
MIXED ECONOMY: Combination of command and market economies. India is moving from command as it reforms its economy to allow private enterprise.
SPECIALIZATION: Focusing on production of a particular good because of available resources. Specialization encourages trade between countries.
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HUMAN CAPITAL - People who perform the labor.
CAPITAL: Factories, machinery, technology.
NATURAL RESOURCES: Raw materials that come for the land like minerals.
ENTREPRENEURSHIP: Ideas and risks involved in starting a business.
NATIONALISTS: Citizens working together to protect culture from foreign rule.
MOHANDAS GANDHI: Born 1869 studied law in England, fought segregation/oppression in India, believed in non-violent protest, credited with India's independence.
BOYCOTT: Refuse to buy products to protest ideas/practice of company.
SEGREGATED - Forced separation because of race.
List 14:
CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE Nonviolent protest; intentionally breaking an unfair law to gain support for changing it; used by Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr.; Examples: marching, boycott, etc.
BOYCOTT Refusing to buy something as a form of protest.
HO CHI MINH -Leader of Vietnam's independence movement
-Used guerrilla warfare to drive the French out of Vietnam and established a communist government.
GUERRILLA WAR Small group of combatants who use ambushes, raids, and hit/run tactics to further a cause; they're not usually associated with any government.
COMMUNISM Economic/Political system where a totalitarian government controls everything, in order to create a classless society where everyone is equal.
DOMINO THEORY Idea that if one country fell to communism, all the others nearby would fall as well.
GREAT LEAP FORWARD -Program implemented by Mao Zedong in 1958 to speed up China's economic development by moving agricultural and industrial production to collectives.
-Great failure due to flooding, drought, and government mismanagement (millions of Chinese died of starvation).
CULTURAL REVOLUTION -Mao's reaction to the failure of the Great Leap Forward.
-In 1966, Mao went after anyone that wasn't 100% supportive of his communist government, especially those that were too western or too traditional.
COLLECTIVES Communes where 25,000 worked and lived cooperatively; utopian society
TIANANMEN SQUARE MASSACRE 1989 memorial service for democratic reformer Hu Yaobang that turned into a protest against Deng Xiaoping's communist government in China. He responded by sending in the military resulting in many deaths.
List 1:
ETHNIC GROUP Group of people who share a common race, language, and culture.
RELIGIOUS GROUP Group of people who share a common system of beliefs.
IRRIGATION Providing water to crops using pipes, ditches, etc.
DESALINATION The process used to convert sea water to freshwater for drinking.
OPEC Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries.
AGRICULTURE Farming; growing crops and raising animals for food.
NOMADIC Migratory lifestyle.
OPEC Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. Controls the supply and price of oil.
List 2:
ARID Very dry.
UNEQUAL DISTRIBUTION Unequal access to resources needed for survival and economic growth.
SUNNI Branch of Islam that believes that the leader can be any qualified Muslim; Majority of Muslims are Sunni.
SHIA Branch of Islam that believes the leader must be a descendant of Muhammad (mostly in Iran).
SUEZ CANAL Man made waterway connecting the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea.
GEOGRAPHY Study of how things are arranged or distributed across the earth's surface.
List 3:
URBAN Related to a city
STRAIT OF HORMUZ Narrow waterway connecting the Persian Gulf to the Arabian Sea.
RURAL Characteristic of country life.
SCARCE Very limited supply.
RESERVOIR Human made place for storing water.
PARTITIONING to split into parts
Ex: After WWI, France and Great Britain partitioned the Ottoman Empire to form countries in the Middle East (oil).
NATURAL RESOURCES Minerals, freshwater, arable land, timber, fossil fuels.
INFRASTRUCTURE Facilities and services needed to support economic development; water and service lines, roads, highways, power.
LIST 4:
LITERACY RATE percent of population with the ability to read and write increase in literacy rate leads to an increase in standard of living.
ANTI-SEMITISM Racism against Jews.
ZIONISM Jewish Nationalism movement to restore their homeland of Israel (1948).
AUTOCRACY Dictatorship; no citizen participation.
OLIGARCHY Rule by a small group; limited citizen participation.
DEMOCRACY Citizens participate by voting or running for office; parliamentary or presidential.
List 5:
IMPERIALISM Empire building; Colonial rule to gain raw materials, land, labor, and taxes.
NATIONALISM Extreme loyalty to one's country and culture. Nationalism usually leads to independence.
HOW CITIZENS PARTICIPATE: Autocracy, oligarchy, democracy (parliamentary, presidential)
HOW GOVERNMENTS DISTRIBUTE POWER: Federal, unitary, confederate
FEDERAL Power is shared or divided between the central authority and regional authorities
UNITARY One central government has the power
CONFEDERATION Loose alliance between countries. Ex: United Nations, European Union.
MONARCHY Rule by a king or queen; constitutional (U.K., Japan) or absolute (Saudi Arabia)
THEOCRACY Rule by a religious leader or God (Iran)
List 6:
GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT GDP: Total market value of goods and services produced by a country’s economy during a specific period of time.
HUMAN CAPITAL: people who perform labor
CAPITAL: factories and machinery
ENTREPRENEURSHIP: Ideas, innovation and risks to starting a business
TRADE BARRIERS: Restrict trade because they want to buy and sell their own goods
TARIFFS: Taxes on imported goods. Increases demand for local products. Example: foreign car
QUOTAS: Restricts amounts of a good that can be imported. Can cause shortages causing price to rise
TRADE EMBARGOES: Forbid trade with another country
CURRENCY: Type of money a country uses
FOREIGN EXCHANGE: When money from one country is converted to that of another country ex. Turkey lira to Afghanistan afghani.
List 7:
SADDAM HUSSEIN dictator of Iraq who invaded Kuwait for their oil. This caused the Persian Gulf War in 1991 (Desert Storm.) He was later accused of having Weapons of Mass Destruction. This lead to the second invasion of Iraq in 2003 (Operation Iraqi Freedom.)
OSAMA BIN LADIN Leader of the terrorist group Al Qaeda, that attacked the U.S. on Sept. 11, 2001. Taken out by Navy Seals in May 2011.
ECONOMICS The study of how people use limited resources to meet needs and wants.
MARKET ECONOMY Economic system in which choices are made by consumers, producers, and entrepreneurs.
COMMAND ECONOMY Economic system run by the government.
TRADITIONAL ECONOMY Economic system in which custom and tradition determine what to produce, how to produce, and for whom to produce.
MIXED ECONOMY Combination of command and market economies. All countries have a mixed economy.
FAVORABLE BALANCE OF TRADE When a country exports more goods than it imports.
(Exports > Imports)
POLITICAL TRADE BARRIERS Tariff, Quota, Embargo (Sanction); motivates consumers to buy domestic goods
HOLOCAUST Killing of 6 million Jews during World War 2 by Germany Chancellor Adolf Hitler.
List 8:
GANGES RIVER: Starts in Himalayan Mountains, travels 1,500 miles to Indian Ocean. Most important river in Indian subcontinent. Runs through India’s most fertile and populated areas. River named for Hindu goddess and considered sacred.
HUANG HE (YELOW RIVER): China's second longest river, called "China's Sorrow" because of its devastating floods. Chinese civilization began in central area of river basin. Names Yellow River for muddy yellow silt it carries along its path through China. It empties into the Gulf of Bohai in the northern Yellow Sea.
INDUS RIVER: Provides water for one of largest irrigation systems of the world. Indus River begins high in Himalayas in Tibet. Slowing down as it runs through India and Pakistan, it flows through desert before emptying into the Arabian Sea.
MEKONG RIVER: Flowing through China, Myanmar (Burma), Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam, the Mekong River affects the lives of 60 million people, many of whom are the poorest people in the world. One of the region's most important crops, rice, is grown in the Mekong Basin.
YANGTZE (CHANG JIANG) RIVER: The largest/longest river in China, the Yangtze River is the third longest in the world. The Yangtze is extremely important to China, providing hydroelectric power, water for irrigation, and transportation for cargo ships.
BAY OF BENGAL: Arm of Indian Ocean with India to its west and Myanmar to its east. Many large rivers, including the Ganges River, flow into the bay.
GOBI DESERT: Known as Shamo, meaning "sand desert," it is Asia's largest desert. It stretches across southern Mongolia and northern China. The famous traveler Marco Polo and two of his relatives were the first to cross the desert around 1275.
TAKLIMAKAN DESERT: Located in northwestern China, the Taklimakan Desert is nestled between two rugged mountain ranges. Shifting, crescent-shaped dunes cover 85 percent of its surface.
HIMALAYAN MOUNTAINS: Lying along the northern edge of the Indian subcontinent, the Himalayan mountain range is the world's highest mountain region. Nine of the world's ten tallest peaks are located in the Himalayas, including Mt. Everest, the highest mountain in the world.
KOREAN PENINSULA: Juts out of northeastern China. Since 1948, this peninsula has been divided into two counties: The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) and the Republic of Korea (South Korea.)
List 9:
GANGES RIVER: Starts in Himalayan Mountains, travels 1,500 miles to Indian Ocean. Most important river in Indian subcontinent. Runs through India’s most fertile and populated areas. River named for Hindu goddess and considered sacred.
MEKONG RIVER: Flowing through China, Myanmar (Burma), Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam, the Mekong River affects the lives of 60 million people, many of whom are the poorest people in the world. One of the region's most important crops, rice, is grown in the Mekong Basin.
YANGTZE (CHANG JIANG) RIVER: The largest/longest river in China, the Yangtze River is the third longest in the world. The Yangtze is extremely important to China, providing hydroelectric power, water for irrigation, and transportation for cargo ships.
ASIAN BROWN CLOUD Air pollution over Asia caused by industry, automobiles, and burning wood for cooking and heating in rural areas.
MONSOON a seasonal wind pattern in southern Asia that blows warm, moist air from the southwest during the summer, bringing heavy rains, and cold, dry air from the northeast during the winter
ARCHIPELAGO a group of islands
DESERTIFICATION The process by which fertile land becomes desert, typically as a result of drought, deforestation, or inappropriate agriculture.
List 10:
ENLIGHTENMENT Awakening to ultimate truth
REINCARNATION Cycle of rebirth in Hinduism and Buddhism
KARMA Good or bad behavior that determines one's position in this life or the next
KAMI Nature spirits; spirits of ancestors in Shintoism
VEDAS Hindu sacred texts
NIRVANA Perfect state of being; freedom from the cycle of reincarnation (Buddhist belief)
MOKSHA Release from the cycle of reincarnation (Hindu belief)
TRIPITAKA Sacred text of Buddhism
List 11:
CEREMONIAL LEADER: a person who holds the title as the highest leader of a country but has no real political power
COMMUNIST: referring to a system of government in which the state controls the economy and a single, often authoritarian party holds power, claiming to make progress toward a higher social order in which all goods are equally shared by the people
FEDERAL REPUBLIC: a state in which supreme power is held by the people and their elected representatives; democratic; division of power
CONSTITUTIONAL MONARCHY: A King or Queen is the official head of state but power is limited by a constitution. Elected officials run the government.
SUFFRAGE: The right to vote
List 12:
SOCIALIST MARKET ECONOMY: China’s economy as it switches from command economy to mixed market economy. As part of economic reforms, moving from complete government control and allowing more foreign investment.
COMMAND ECONOMY: Complete government control. North Korea government controls all resources and decides what will be produced.
MIXED MARKET ECONOMY: Mixture of government control of some industries and private enterprise as in Japan, which imports raw materials and exports ships, cars, and electronics.
MIXED ECONOMY: Combination of command and market economies. India is moving from command as it reforms its economy to allow private enterprise.
SPECIALIZATION: Focusing on production of a particular good because of available resources. Specialization encourages trade between countries.
List 13:
HUMAN CAPITAL - People who perform the labor.
CAPITAL: Factories, machinery, technology.
NATURAL RESOURCES: Raw materials that come for the land like minerals.
ENTREPRENEURSHIP: Ideas and risks involved in starting a business.
NATIONALISTS: Citizens working together to protect culture from foreign rule.
MOHANDAS GANDHI: Born 1869 studied law in England, fought segregation/oppression in India, believed in non-violent protest, credited with India's independence.
BOYCOTT: Refuse to buy products to protest ideas/practice of company.
SEGREGATED - Forced separation because of race.
List 14:
CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE Nonviolent protest; intentionally breaking an unfair law to gain support for changing it; used by Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr.; Examples: marching, boycott, etc.
BOYCOTT Refusing to buy something as a form of protest.
HO CHI MINH -Leader of Vietnam's independence movement
-Used guerrilla warfare to drive the French out of Vietnam and established a communist government.
GUERRILLA WAR Small group of combatants who use ambushes, raids, and hit/run tactics to further a cause; they're not usually associated with any government.
COMMUNISM Economic/Political system where a totalitarian government controls everything, in order to create a classless society where everyone is equal.
DOMINO THEORY Idea that if one country fell to communism, all the others nearby would fall as well.
GREAT LEAP FORWARD -Program implemented by Mao Zedong in 1958 to speed up China's economic development by moving agricultural and industrial production to collectives.
-Great failure due to flooding, drought, and government mismanagement (millions of Chinese died of starvation).
CULTURAL REVOLUTION -Mao's reaction to the failure of the Great Leap Forward.
-In 1966, Mao went after anyone that wasn't 100% supportive of his communist government, especially those that were too western or too traditional.
COLLECTIVES Communes where 25,000 worked and lived cooperatively; utopian society
TIANANMEN SQUARE MASSACRE 1989 memorial service for democratic reformer Hu Yaobang that turned into a protest against Deng Xiaoping's communist government in China. He responded by sending in the military resulting in many deaths.
This page will be a place to find quick links to handouts used in class.
Click for a copy of my syllabus handed out Aug. 12, 2014.
Click to view classroom expectations.
Click to see the two posters hanging in the room concerning Learning Styles used with the self-assessments completed the first week of class.
Click for Remind directions to subscribe to the free service and receive text messages for upcoming due dates.
Click for 12 Questions from Southwest Asia Supplement that was due Aug. 27, 2015.
Click for Chapter 15 notes from the Student Workbook due Sept. 3, 2015.
Click for Chapter 16 notes from Student Workbook due Sept. 4, 2015.
Click for Religion Chart completed Sept. 9, 2015.
Click for Government Chart completed Sept. 10, 2015.
Click for Power Distribution Chart completed Sept. 15, 2015.
Click for Fight For Rights Enrichment Assignment completed Sept. 14, 2015.
Click for List 6 Crossword Puzzle completed Sept. 21, 2015.
Click for Chapter 19 Notes completed Sept. 21, 2015.
Click for Chapter 20 Notes completed Sept. 23, 2015.
Click for Unit 1 Review questions.
Click for Asia Map used for Unit 2.
Click for Atlas worksheet 1 and Atlas worksheet 2 used in class Oct. 17 - 20, 2015
Click for Chapters 25, 26 notes completed in class for Oct. 30, 2015 test.
Click for Asia Religions chart completed Nov. 6, 2015.
Click for a copy of my syllabus handed out Aug. 12, 2014.
Click to view classroom expectations.
Click to see the two posters hanging in the room concerning Learning Styles used with the self-assessments completed the first week of class.
Click for Remind directions to subscribe to the free service and receive text messages for upcoming due dates.
Click for 12 Questions from Southwest Asia Supplement that was due Aug. 27, 2015.
Click for Chapter 15 notes from the Student Workbook due Sept. 3, 2015.
Click for Chapter 16 notes from Student Workbook due Sept. 4, 2015.
Click for Religion Chart completed Sept. 9, 2015.
Click for Government Chart completed Sept. 10, 2015.
Click for Power Distribution Chart completed Sept. 15, 2015.
Click for Fight For Rights Enrichment Assignment completed Sept. 14, 2015.
Click for List 6 Crossword Puzzle completed Sept. 21, 2015.
Click for Chapter 19 Notes completed Sept. 21, 2015.
Click for Chapter 20 Notes completed Sept. 23, 2015.
Click for Unit 1 Review questions.
Click for Asia Map used for Unit 2.
Click for Atlas worksheet 1 and Atlas worksheet 2 used in class Oct. 17 - 20, 2015
Click for Chapters 25, 26 notes completed in class for Oct. 30, 2015 test.
Click for Asia Religions chart completed Nov. 6, 2015.
This page will be used to store maps distributed in class.
Here is the Southwest Asia map that was used on the first test.
Here is the Asia Map used that was used for Unit 2.
Here is the Southwest Asia map that was used on the first test.
Here is the Asia Map used that was used for Unit 2.
- Coal is made largely of carbon but also features other elements such as hydrogen, oxygen, sulfur and nitrogen.
- Coal starts off as plant matter at the bottom of water. It is eventually covered and deeply buried by sediments where over time metamorphosis (a change in form) takes place.
- Different types of coal contain different amounts of carbon. Lignite contains only around 60 to 75%, while anthracite contains more than 92%.
- Anthracite is a hard, shiny, black coal that burns with a blue, smokeless flame. While most forms of coal are associated with sedimentary rock, anthracite undergoes metamorphism and is linked to metamorphic rocks.
- Coal has long been burned to create electricity and heat. The use of coal is increasing every year, in 2006 the world consumed over 6,000,000,000,000 kilograms of coal!
- Coal is the world’s largest source of energy for the production of electricity.
- Coal is converted to electricity by being burned in a furnace with a boiler. The boiler water is heated until it becomes steam, with the steam then spinning turbines and generators to create the electricity.
- Nearly 70% of China’s electricity comes from coal. In total, coal produces around 40% of the world’s electricity.
- Coal mining and the subsequent burning of coal can have many bad effects on both humans and the environment. Examples of this include waste products, acid rain, contaminated water, poisonous emissions, high levels of carbon dioxide and increased risks of lung cancer for coal plant workers.
- A popular saying among many cultures is that if you behave badly during the year, Santa will deliver you a lump of coal for Christmas.