Brad Talley
Alcott Middle School
Norman, OK
btalley@norman.k12.ok.us
Protocol
1) Draw a slip.
2) If it is a country, identify the capital to choose a definition.
3) If it you draw a body of water, Star Wars planet (*), or local place choose that one.
Amsterdam
Athens
Belgrade
Berlin
Brussels
Budapest Copenhagen
Dublin
Helsinki
Kiev
Lisbon
London
Madrid
Moscow
Oslo
Paris
Prague
Reykjavik
Rome
Sarajevo
Sofia
Stockholm
Vienna
Warsaw
Abuja
Addis
Ababa
Algiers
Brazzaville
Cairo
Pretoria
Cape Town
Bloemfontein
Dar es
Salaam
Djibouti
Harare
Khartoum
Kinshasa
Luanda
Lusaka
Maputo
Mogadish
u
Monrovia
Nairobi
Ouagadougou
Rabat
Tripoli
Tunis
Yaoundé
Abu Dhabi
Amman
Ankara
Astana
Baghdad
Baku
Bangkok
Beijing
Beirut
Bishkek
Damascus
Dhaka
Hanoi
Islamabad
Jakarta
Jerusalem
Kabul
Kathmandu
Kuala
Lumpur
Kuwait
Manila
New Dehli
Phnom
Penh
P’yongyang
Riyadh
Sanaa
Seoul
Singapore
Taipei
Tashkent
T’bilisi
Tehran
Tokyo
Yerevan
Apia
Canberra
Funafuti
Honiara
Port
Moresby
Suva
Wellington
Indian
Ocean
Southern
Ocean
Pacific
Ocean
Atlantic
Ocean
Death
Star*
Tatooine
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Talus*
Rori*
Naboo*
Lok*
Endor*
Alcott
Norman
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Get an L to J paper ready.
This week, title it with your favorite ice
cream flavor.
Put your name on it.
Don’t number!
Get your notebook.
an area of rich farmland in Southwest Asia
where the first civilizations began
Fertile Crescent
Amsterdam, Netherlands
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a way of supplying water to an area of land
irrigation
Athens, Greece
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an amount of something left over when
requirements have been met; an excess
of production or supply over demand
surplus
Belgrade, Serbia
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an arrangement in which each worker
specializes in a particular job or task
division of labor
Berlin, Germany
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the belief in multiple gods
polytheism
Brussels, Belgium
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the religion of the Hebrews and the oldest
monotheistic religion
Judaism
Budapest, Hungary
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the journey in which Moses led his
people out of Egypt
Exodus
Copenhagen, Denmark
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the belief in one god
monotheism
Dublin, Ireland
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the most sacred text in Judaism
Torah
Helsinki, Finland
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in Judaism, a new leader that would appear
among the Jews and restore greatness to
ancient Israel
Messiah
Kiev, Ukraine
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a major world religion based on the teachings
of Jesus
Christianity
Lisbon, Spain
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the holy book for Christianity
Bible
London, England
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a religion based on the messages that
Muhammad is believed to have
received from God
Islam
Madrid, Spain
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a follower of Islam
Muslim
Moscow, Russian
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the holy book of Islam
Qur’an
Oslo, Norway
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a building for Muslim prayer
mosque
Paris, France
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five acts of worship required of all
Muslims
Five Pillars of Islam
Prague, Czech Republic
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a radical Muslim group that rose to power
in Afghanistan in the mid-1990s
Taliban
Reykjavik, Iceland
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farming that relies on rainfall instead of
irrigation
dryland farming
Rome, Italy
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land that is suitable for growing crops
arable
Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina
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a landform at the mouth of a river created
by sediment deposits
delta
Sofia, Bulgaria
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goods brought in from other regions
imports
Stockholm, Sweden
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items sent to other regions for trade
exports
Vienna, Austria
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finely ground fertile soil that is good for
growing crops
silt
Warsaw, Poland
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a wet, fertile area in a desert where a
spring or well provides water
oasis
Abuja, Nigeria
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a city in which almost no taxes are
placed on goods
free port
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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a ruler who has almost absolute power
dictator
Algiers, Algeria
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the spread of desert-like conditions
desertification
Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo
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an area of tall grasses and
scattered trees and shrubs
savanna
Cairo, Egypt
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the separation of religion and
government; nonreligious
secular
Pretoria, South Africa
Bloemfontein, South Africa
Cape Town, South Africa
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to break away from the main country
secede
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
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an extreme shortage of food
famine
Djibouti, Djibouti
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an attempt to dominate a country’s
government, trade and culture
imperialism
Harare, Zimbabwe
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the intentional destruction of a people
genocide
Khartoum, Sudan
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a generally flat region surrounded by
higher land such as mountains and
plateaus
basin
Kinshasa, Democratic
Republic of the Congo
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a regional variety of language
dialects
Luanda, Angola
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the rise in prices that occurs when
currency loses its buying power
inflation
Lusaka, Zambia
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a steep face at the edge of a plateau or
other raised area
escarpment
Maputo, Mozambique
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South Africa’s government policy of separation of
races that was abandoned in the 1980s and 1990s
apartheid
Mogadishu, Somalia
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crowded clusters of small homes in South
Africa outside of cities where black South
Africans lived
township
Monrovia, Liberia
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the division of Indian society into
groups based on birth or occupation
caste system
Nairobi, Kenya
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a Hindu and Buddhist belief that souls
are born and reborn many times into
new bodies
reincarnation
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
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a Hindu or Buddhist belief that good or
bad actions have an effect on people’s
souls
karma
Rabat, Morocco
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a large landmass that is smaller than a
continent
subcontinent
Tripoli, Libya
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seasonal winds that bring either dry or
moist air to an area
monsoons
Tunis, Tunisia
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the main religion in India that teaches
that everything is part of a universal
spirit called Brahman
Hinduism
Yaoundé, Cameroon
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a religion based on the teachings of
the Buddha that developed in India
in the 500s BC
Buddhism
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
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a territory inhabited and
controlled by people from a
foreign land
colony
Amman, Jordan
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the action or state of dividing or
being divided into parts
partition
Ankara, Turkey
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the increase in the percentage of people
who live in cities
urbanization
Astana, Kazakhstan
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a program that encouraged farmers to
adopt modern agricultural methods to
produce more food
green revolution
Baghdad, Iraq
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an economic system in which the
central government makes all
economic decisions
command economy
Baku, Azerbaijan
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a destructive and fast moving wave
tsunami
Bangkok, Thailand
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when a country exports more goods
than it imports
trade surplus
Beijing, China
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a fee that a country charges on imports or
exports
tariff
Beirut, Lebanon
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an empty buffer zone created to keep two
countries from fighting
demilitarized zone
Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
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the idea that if one country fell to
Communism, neighboring countries
would follow like falling dominoes
domino theory
Damascus, Syria
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rights that all people deserve
human rights
Dhaka, Bangledash
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a chain of rocky material found in
shallow tropical waters
coral reef
Hanoi, Vietnam
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a ring-shaped coral island that
surrounds a lagoon
atoll
Islamabad, Pakistan
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an area that is under the authority of
another government
territory
Jakarta, Indonesia
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a ledge of ice that extends over water
ice shelf
Jerusalem, Israel
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a high latitude region that receives
little precipitation
Polar desert
Kabul, Afghanistan
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a layer of the Earth’s atmosphere that
protects living things from the harmful
effects of the sun’s UV rays
ozone layer
Kathmandu, Nepal
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a type of government in which a king
shares power with an elected parliament
and a prime minister
parliamentary monarchy
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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energy produced from the heat of the
Earth’s interior
geothermal energy
Kuwait, Kuwait
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a type of democracy in which a monarch
serves as head of state but a legislature makes
the laws
constitutional monarchy
Manila, Phillipines
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not taking sides in an international conflict
neutral
New Dehli, India
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not able to support human life
uninhabitable
Phnom Penh, Cambodia
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a spring that shoots hot water and steam
into the air
geysers
P’yongyang, North Korea
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a set of resources, like roads and
factories, that a country needs to
support economic activities
infrastructure
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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the effort to remove all members of
an ethnic group from a country or
region
ethnic cleansing
Sanaa, Yemen
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a Russian emperor
czar
Seoul, South Korea
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Muslims who believe that true
interpretation of Islamic teaching can
only come from certain religious and
political leaders called imams
Shia
Singapore, Singapore
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Muslims who believe in the ability of the
majority of Muslims in the community to
interpret Islamic teachings
Sunni
Taipei, Taiwan
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an international organization whose
members work to influence the price of oil
on world markets by controlling the supply
OPEC
Tashkent, Uzbekistan
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a limit on trade
embargo
T’bilisi, Georgia
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a government ruled by religious
leaders
theocracy
Tehran, Iran
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a general description of where a place
lies
relative location
Tokyo, Japan
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a specific description of where a place
lies
absolute location
Yerevan, Armenia
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the land, water, climate, plants, and
animals of an area
environment
Apia, Samoa
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the study of the world’s physical
features
physical geography
Canberra, Australia
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the study of the world’s people,
communities, and landscapes
human geography
Funafuti, Tuvalu
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the value of all goods and
services produced within a
country in a single year
gross domestic product
Honiara, Solomon Islands
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countries with strong economies and
people with longer life spans, access
to modern healthcare, and higher
literacy skills
developed countries
Port Moresby, Papau New Guinea
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countries with less productive
economies and people with shorter
life spans, less access to modern
healthcare, and lower literacy skills
developing countries
Suva, Fiji
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the process in which countries are
increasingly linked to each other
through culture and trade
globalization
Wellington, New Zealand
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a region’s average weather conditions
over a long period of time
climate
Indian Ocean
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a group of plants and animals that
depend on each other for survival,
and the environment in which they
live
ecosystem
Southern Ocean
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an area with one or more features
that make it different from
surrounding areas
region
Pacific Ocean
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the study of the world’s people,
places, and landscapes
geography
Atlantic Ocean
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the distance north or south of the
Equator
latitude
Death Star
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the distance east or west from the
Prime Meridian
longitude
Tatooine
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the imaginary line of latitude that
circles the globe halfway between
the North and South Poles at 0
degrees
Equator
Talus
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Imaginary line of longitude that circles the
globe at 0 degrees longitude
Prime Meridian
Rori
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half of the Earth, divided by either the
Equator or the Prime Meridian
hemisphere
Naboo
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large land mass that is part of the
Earth’s crust
continent
Lok
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an area of land surrounded entirely by
water
island
Endor
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a circle on a map or globe that shows
the principal directions
compass rose
Alcott Middle School
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the relationship (or ratio) between
distance on a map and the
corresponding distance on the
ground
scale
Norman, OK
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