all of the geo vocab for the ba exam
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- standard of living
- an economic measure relating to the quality and amount of goods available to a group of people and how these goods are distributed across the group
- neutrality
- a policy of not taking part in war
- refugee
- a person who flees to a place to find safety
- Velvet Revolution
- the peaceful protest by the Czech people that led to the smooth end of Communism in Czechoslovakia
- Baltic States
- Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia; three countries that border the Baltic Sea
- Yugoslavia
- a country on the Balkan peninsula from 1918 to 1991
- Warsaw
- capital of Poland
- language
- human communication that is written, spoken, or signed
- strategic
- relating to a place of action designed to achieve a specific goal
- Helsinki
- capital of Finland
- polders
- land reclaimed by draining it of water with the use of a dam and pump
- Bratislava
- capital of Slovakia
- nationalism
- pride in and loyalty to one's nation
- command economy
- an economic system in which the production of goods and services is decided by a central government
- Alps
- Europe's tallest mountain range that stretches across Southern Europe
- deport
- to expel from a country
- Belgrade
- capital of Serbia
- Dublin
- capital of Ireland
- Madrid
- capital of Spain
- region
- an area that has one or more common characteristics that unite or connect it with other areas
- immigrant
- a person who leaves one area to settle in another
- seafaring
- using the sea for transportation
- Adolf Hitler
- German head of state from 1933 to 1945
- eclectic
- made up of parts from a variety of sources
- Paris
- capital of France
- Vatican
- the official residence of the pope in Vatican City, and the political and religious center of the Roman Catholic Church
- fascism
- a political philosophy that promotes blind loyalty to the state and a strong central government controlled by a powerful dictator
- physical map
- a map that shows the landforms on the earth's surface (lakes, rivers, mountains, deserts, etc.)
- Reconquista
- the successful effort by the Spaniards to drive the Moors out of Spain
- longitude
- imaginary lines on the earth's surface that measure distance east or west of the Prime Meridian
- Prague
- capital of the Czech Republic
- bread basket
- an abundant grain-producing region
- political map
- a map used to show human created features on the earth's surface, such as cities, states, and countries
- Oslo
- capital of Norway
- Vikings
- a seafaring Scandinavian people who raided northern and western Europe from the 9th to the 11th century
- Kiev
- capital of Ukraine
- Reykjavik
- capital of Iceland
- Vilnius
- capital of Lithuania
- geography
- the study of people, places, and environments
- renewable energy sources
- sources of energy able to be replaced through ongoing natural processes
- Magyar
- an ethnic Hungarian person; the Hungarian language
- Rome
- capital of Italy
- Russification
- the effort to make countries occupied by the Soviet Union more Russian by replacing local languages and customs
- Romance language
- any of the languages that developed from the Roman language, Latin, such as Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, or Romanian
- grid system
- the imaginary network of longitude and latitude lines that indicate a place's exact location
- brain drain
- the loss of skilled workers who move in search of better opportunities
- fossil fuels
- sources of energy from ancient plant and animal remains
- Prime Meridian
- imaginary line that divides the earth into the Eastern and Western Hemispheres
- Holocaust
- the systematic murder of Jews and other minorities by the Nazis during World War 2
- Nordic
- relating to Scandinavia
- migration
- the process of relocating to a new region
- peninsula
- a body of land nearly surrounded by water
- Alpine
- having to do with the Alps mountain range
- Slobodan Milosevic
- president of Serbia from 1989 to 1997 and of Yugoslavia from 1997 to 2000; a key figure in ethnic conflicts in the Balkans in the 1990s
- Copenhagen
- capital of Denmark
- Riga
- capital of Latvia
- discrimination
- actions that might be hurtful to an individual group
- Basque
- an ethnic gorup living in the western Pyrenees and along the Bay of Biscay in Spain and France; also the name of their language
- multilingual
- able to speak many languages
- compulsory
- required
- ombudsman
- an official who investigates citizens' complaints against the government
- separatist
- a person who wants a region to break away from the nation that it is a part of
- Berlin
- capital of Germany
- latitude
- imaginary lines on earth's surface that measure distance north or south of the equator
- Sami
- people of northern Scandinavia who traditionally herd reindeer; the name of their language
- culture
- the shared attitude, knowledge, and behaviors of a group
- Budapest
- capital of Hungary
- Amsterdam
- capital of the Netherlands
- religion
- an organized system of beliefs and practices, often centered on one or more gods
- projection
- a way of showing the earth's curved surface on a flat map
- coalition
- an alliance or partnership, often temporary
- hydroelectric power
- electricity made by water-powered engines
- Czechoslovakia
- former country in Eastern Europe that existed from 1918 until 1993 when it split into Czech Republic and Slovakia
- North Atlantic Drift
- warm ocean current that helps keep Europe's climate mild
- diversity
- having many different ways to think or do something, a variety of people
- anthropologist
- a scientist who studies culture
- continent
- one of the earth's 7 large landmasses
- place
- a geographical term that describes the physical and human characteristics of a location
- Communism
- a type of government in which the production of goods and services is decided by a central government
- Prussia
- the most powerful German state in the Holy Roman Empire
- Moors
- the group of Muslims from North Africa who conquered Spain in the eighth century
- hemisphere
- half of the globe, separated by the Equator or Prime Meridian. They are divided into the Northern, Southern, Eastern, and Western Hemispheres
- ethnic group
- a group of people who share language, custom, and a common heritage
- European Union(EU)
- an organization of European nations whose members cooperate on economic, social, and political issues
- autonomy
- self governance or independence
- welfare state
- a social system in which the government provides for many of its' citizens' needs
- duchy
- the territory ruled by a duke or duchess
- market economy
- an economic system which the production of goods and services is decided by supply and the demand of customers
- London
- capital of the United Kingdom
- Kosovo
- a self-governing province within Serbia
- Benelux
- name for the economic union formed by Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg to ensure the fast and efficient movement of people, goods, and services within these nations
- Solidarity
- Poland's first independent labor union, cofounded by Lech Walesa
- Lech Walesa
- Polish leader who cofounded Solidarity and served as president of Poland from 1990 to 1995
- location
- a description of a place in relation to places around it
- environment
- the physical surroundings of a location
- Christopher Columbus
- Italian navigator and explorer who sailed for Spain and explored the Caribbean and the coast of Central and South America
- Josip Broz Tito
- the Communist leader of Yugoslavia from 1953 to 1980
- Bosniac
- an ethnic Muslim from Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Berlin Wall
- a wall built by East Germany's Communist government to close off East Berlin from West Berlin
- Vienna
- capital of Austria
- reunify
- to bring something that has been separated back together
- Tallinn
- capital of Estonia
- language family
- a group of languages that have a common origin
- equator
- an imaginary line that divides the earth into the Northern and Southern Hemispheres
- Bern
- capital of Switzerland
- Northern European Plain
- vast area of flat or gently rolling land from France to Russia
- Sarajevo
- capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina
- International Date Line
- imaginary line that runs north and south through the Pacific Ocean that begins each day
- Byzantine Empire
- the eastern half of the Roman Empire that survived for a thousand years after the fall of Rome
- landform
- a naturally occurring feature on the earth's surface
- Stockholm
- capital of Sweden
- ethnic cleansing
- removing an ethnic or religious group from an area by force, or the mass killing of members of such a gorup
- Lisbon
- capital of Portugal