At Home Learning 3/30/20 – 4/12/20

Coach Blankenship’s World Geography Extended Break Assignment 2.0

Students, during the extended, extended break due to the coronavirus threat, please go ahead and get the Vocabulary done for the next unit after the one on Europe which will be Chapters 15 and 20-24. These chapters will be over the continent of Africa. Please write them in your notebook as you normally would and I will check them off when we get back. If possible, use the textbook definition using your online textbook. If you are unable to access the online version of the book, you may use any dictionary to define the terms. Here are the lists of words:

Ch. 15, 20-24 Vocabulary (I shortened this list):

Ch. 15

  1. alluvial soil
  2. domesticate
  3. nationalism
  4. bedouin

Ch. 20

  1. delta
  2. patriarchal
  3. subsistence farming

Ch. 21

  1. rift valley
  2. escarpment
  3. indigenous

Ch. 22

  1. reservoir
  2. conflict diamonds
  3. griots

Ch. 23

  1. basin
  2. cash crop
  3. plantation

Ch. 24

  1. urbanization
  2. commercial farming

At Home Learning 3/16/20 – 3/29/20

Students, during the extended break due to the coronavirus threat, please go ahead and get the Vocabulary done for the next 2 units that we will be testing over when we get back. The next unit is Chapters 9 which is over South America and the one after that is Chapters 10-14 on Europe. Please write them in your notebook as you normally would and I will check them off when we get back. If possible, use the textbook definition using your online textbook. If you are unable to access the online version of the book, you may use any dictionary to define the terms. Here are the lists of words:

Ch. 9 Vocabulary:

  1. cordillera
  2. altiplano
  3. escarpments
  4. llanos
  5. pampas
  6. quipu
  7. brain drain
  8. uneven development
  9. oxisol
  10. monoculture

Ch. 10-14 Vocabulary (I shortened this list):

1. fjord
2. geyser
3. entrepot
4. welfare state
5. invasive species
6. dike
7. polder
8. avalanche
9. Industrial Revolution
10. communism
11. Cold War
12. Kyoto Protocol
13. massif
14. tungsten
15. city-state
16. Renaissance
17. karst
18. ethnic cleansing
19. chernozem
20. czar
21. black market
22. privatization