7th Grade Vocabulary List/ World Cultures and Geography Africa, Asia, and Australia
Chapter 1
Geography, environment, spatial, location, place, region, globe, map, cartographer, surveyor, remote sensing, Landsat, Global Positioning System, Geographic Information System, location analyst, climatologist, urban planner, and geomorphology
Chapter 2
Magma, continent, tectonic plate, earthquake, Ring of Fire, volcano, weathering, erosion, sediment, glacier, drainage basin, ground water, hydrologic cycle, landform, plateau, relief, continental shelf, solstice, equinox, weather, climate, precipitation, vegetation region, savanna, desert, global warming, greenhouse effect, greenhouse gas, fossil fuels, desertification, and sustainable
Chapter 3
Population, birth rate, death rate, rate of natural increase, urbanization, demographer, migration, immigrant, push factor, pull factor, culture, diversity, discrimination, natural resource, economy, economic system, command economy, market economy, Gross Domestic Product, export, import, specialization, government, citizen, representative democracy, monarchy, oligarchy, dictatorship, and communism
Chapter 4
Culture, anthropologist, ethnic group, religion, language, language family, agricultural revolution, innovation, technology, diffusion, and cultural hearth
Chapter 5
Eurasia, Ural Mountains, Caspian Sea, VolgaRiver, Siberia, tundra, taiga, steppe, czar, serf, Peter the Great, Bolsheviks, communism, Union of Soviet Socialist Republic, Joseph Stalin, totalitarian, Cold War, Mikhail Gorbachev, Cyrillic alphabet, icon, Leo Tolstoy, propaganda, Vladimir Putin, Chechnya, command economy, market economy, privatization, Boris Yeltsin, and shock therapy
Chapter 6
Transcaucasia, Central Asia, Caucasus Mountains, landlocked, Tian Shan, Kara Kum, Aral Sea, Lake Balkhash, nomad, Islam, Muslim, Silk Roads, Russification, yurt, Rose Revolution, Nagorno- Karabakh, foreign investment, and one- crop economy
Chapter 7
Basin, escarpment, Mount Kilimanjaro, Sahara, Victoria Falls, Nile River, canopy, Sahel, desertification, hominid, bipedal, Stone Age, animism, griot, stateless societies, and lineage
Chapter 8
Silt, delta, Aswan High Dam, cataract, dynasty, pharaoh, pyramid, Nubia, Kush, hieroglyphics, papyrus, Rosetta Stone, Islam, Muslim, Suez Canal, protectorate, Anwar el- Sadat, Camp David Accords, Sudan, Berbers, Carthage, Punic Wars, Maghrib, Atlas Mountains, souk, jellaba, and dictatorship
Chapter 9
Ghana, Trans-Saharan, Mali, Mansa Musa, Songhai, imperialism, Pan-Africanism, Hausa, Yoruba, Igbo, coup, Biafra, Kwame Nkrumah, Kente cloth, federation, inflation, infrastructure, and millet
Chapter 10
Aksum, obelisk, Haile Selassie, Eritrea, safari, monsoon, Swahili, Mau Mau, Jomo Kenyatta, Congo River, Pygmy, hunter-gatherer, Kongo, Leopold 11, Mobutu Sese Seko, Zaire, Boer, Cape Colony, Afrikaner, apartheid, African National Congress, sanction, Nelson Mandela, Great Zimbabwe, Rhodesia, land reform, Kalahari, Bechuanaland, and Marxist
Chapter 11
Arabian Peninsula, Anatolian Peninsula, Plateau of Iran, Tigris River, Euphrates River, oasis, subcontinent, Himalayas, Mount Everest, Deccan Plateau, Indus River, Ganges River, monsoon, cyclone, tsunami, Mesopotamia, silt, civilization, Sumer, city-state, ziggurat, polytheistic, cuneiform, Fertile Crescent, Hammurabi’s Code, and Harappan civilization
Chapter 12
Bedouin, Muhammad, monotheism, Islam, Muslim, Ottoman Empire, OPEC, Kurd, Persia, shah, theocracy, Holocaust, Gaza Strip, West Bank, Palestinian territories, Palestine Liberation Organization, Jerusalem, Judaism, Christianity, Kibbutz, Istanbul, European Union, Golan Heights, peacekeeping, extended family, and Beirut
Chapter 13
Aryan, Sanskrit, Dravidian, caste, Vedas, Hinduism, Buddhism, Buddha, golden age, Taj Mahal, Mohandas Gandhi, nonviolent resistance, Bhagavad-Gita, reincarnation, karma, nirvana, parliamentary, prime minister, Kashmir, Green Revolution, cottage industry, and Bangalore
Chapter 14
Landlocked, Soviet Union, Taliban, subsistence farming, Ramadan, constitutional monarchy, ecotourism, and plantation agriculture
Chapter 15
Three Gorges Dam, hydroelectric power, Himalayas, Taklimakan Desert, Gobi Desert, Huang He, Chang Jiang, Xi Jiang, Shi Huangdi, emperor, dynasty, North China Plain, Middle Kingdom, dynastic cycle, Great Wall, Confucianism, scholar-official, communism, Mao Zedong, Daoism, Dao, Silk Roads, Buddhism, Siddhartha Gautama, Buddha, province, National People’s Congress, demonstration, Tiananmen Square, command economy, free enterprise, and reform
Chapter 16
Korean Peninsula, Yalu River, Mount Paektu, Cheju Island, monsoon, typhoon, Three Kingdoms, Korean War, demilitarized zone, shamanism, celadon, hanbok, kimchi, totalitarian, Korean Workers’ Party, dictator, Kim Jong Il, and chaebol
Chapter 17
Honshu, Mount Fuji, Kanto Plain, Hokkaido, Kyushu, Shikoku, Ring of Fire, Heian period, samurai, shogun, daimyo, Tokugawa leyasu, Shinto, militarism, Diet, zaibatsu,and Junichiro Koizumi
Chapter 18
Indochinese Peninsula, Malay Peninsula, Mekong River, archipelago, tsunami, Indochina, Khmer Empire, colonialism, Tet, Siam, constitutional monarchy, Aung San Suu Kyi, microstate, Bahasa Indonesia, shadow puppet, Filipino, Ferdinand Marcos, and Corazon Aquino
Chapter 19
Great Dividing Range, Southern Alps, geyser, Outback, Uluru, Great Barrier Reef, marsupial, James Cook, aborigine, penal colony, Charles Perkins, Maori, Polynesia, Treaty of Waitangi, Pakeha, hydroelectric power, and geothermal energy
Chapter 20
Oceania, Melanesia, Micronesia, Polynesia, oceanic island, coral island, atoll, trust territory, pidgin, TransantarcticMountains, geographic South Pole, icecap, Antarctic Peninsula, ice shelf, iceberg, Robert Scott, Roald Amundsen, and Antarctic Treaty