brad talley alcott middle school norman, ok [email protected]
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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
uMonrovia
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
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Tatooine*
Talus* Rori* Naboo* Lok* Endor* Alcott Norman
Protocol1) 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.
1. Get an L to J paper ready.2. This week, title it with your favorite ice
cream flavor.3. Put your name on it.4. Don’t number!5. Get your notebook.
an area of rich farmland in Southwest Asia where the first civilizations began
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Fertile Crescent
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an amount of something left over when requirements have been met; an excess
of production or supply over demand
surplus
MenuBelgrade, Serbia
an arrangement in which each worker specializes in a particular job or task
division of labor
MenuBerlin, Germany
in Judaism, a new leader that would appear among the Jews and restore greatness to
ancient Israel
Messiah
MenuKiev, Ukraine
a religion based on the messages that Muhammad is believed to have
received from God
IslamMenu
Madrid, Spain
a radical Muslim group that rose to power in Afghanistan in the mid-1990s
Taliban
MenuReykjavik, Iceland
the separation of religion and government; nonreligious
secular
MenuPretoria, South Africa
Bloemfontein, South AfricaCape Town, South Africa
a generally flat region surrounded by higher land such as mountains and
plateaus
basin
MenuKinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo
South Africa’s government policy of separation of races that was abandoned in the 1980s and 1990s
apartheid
MenuMogadishu, Somalia
crowded clusters of small homes in South Africa outside of cities where black South
Africans lived
township
MenuMonrovia, Liberia
the division of Indian society into groups based on birth or occupation
caste system
MenuNairobi, Kenya
a Hindu and Buddhist belief that souls are born and reborn many times into
new bodies
reincarnationMenu
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
a Hindu or Buddhist belief that good or bad actions have an effect on people’s
souls
karma
MenuRabat, Morocco
the main religion in India that teaches that everything is part of a universal spirit
called Brahman
Hinduism
MenuYaoundé, Cameroon
a religion based on the teachings of the Buddha that developed in India
in the 500s BC
BuddhismMenu
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
a program that encouraged farmers to adopt modern agricultural methods to
produce more food
green revolution
MenuBaghdad, Iraq
an economic system in which the central government makes all
economic decisions
command economy
MenuBaku, Azerbaijan
an empty buffer zone created to keep two countries from fighting
demilitarized zone
MenuBishkek, Kyrgyzstan
the idea that if one country fell to Communism, neighboring countries would follow like falling dominoes
domino theory
MenuDamascus, Syria
a layer of the Earth’s atmosphere that protects living things from the harmful
effects of the sun’s UV rays
ozone layer
MenuKathmandu, Nepal
a type of government in which a king shares power with an elected parliament
and a prime minister
parliamentary monarchy
MenuKuala Lumpur, Malaysia
a type of democracy in which a monarch serves as head of state but a legislature makes
the laws
constitutional monarchy
MenuManila, Phillipines
a set of resources, like roads and factories, that a country needs to
support economic activities
infrastructure
MenuRiyadh, Saudi Arabia
the effort to remove all members of an ethnic group from a country or
region
ethnic cleansing
MenuSanaa, Yemen
Muslims who believe that true interpretation of Islamic teaching can only come from certain religious and
political leaders called imams
ShiaMenu
Singapore, Singapore
Muslims who believe in the ability of the majority of Muslims in the community to
interpret Islamic teachings
Sunni
MenuTaipei, Taiwan
an international organization whose members work to influence the price of oil on world markets by controlling the supply
OPEC
MenuTashkent, Uzbekistan
the value of all goods and services produced within a
country in a single year
gross domestic product
MenuHoniara, Solomon Islands
countries with strong economies and people with longer life spans, access
to modern healthcare, and higher literacy skills
developed countries
MenuPort Moresby, Papau New Guinea
countries with less productive economies and people with shorter
life spans, less access to modern healthcare, and lower literacy skills
developing countriesMenu
Suva, Fiji
the process in which countries are increasingly linked to each other
through culture and trade
globalization
MenuWellington, New Zealand
a group of plants and animals that depend on each other for survival, and the environment in which they
live
ecosystem
MenuSouthern Ocean
an area with one or more features that make it different from
surrounding areas
region
MenuPacific Ocean
the imaginary line of latitude that circles the globe halfway between
the North and South Poles at 0 degrees
Equator
MenuTalus
a circle on a map or globe that shows the principal directions
compass rose
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