Chapter 7 Geography

Which of the following is not included in the North Africa/Southwest Asia realm?

a) Pakistan
b) Iran
c) Iraq
d) Egypt
e) Afghanistan

a

The three largest countries in population size in the North Africa/Southwest Asia realm are ____________.

a) Israel, Jordan, and Pakistan
b) Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and Iran
c) Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Yemen
d) Egypt, Kazakhstan, and Morocco
e) Egypt, Iran, and Turkey

e

_____ is the name for the land between the rivers.

a) Levant
b) Mesopotamia
c) Choke Point
d) Maghreb
e) The Fertile Crescent

b

Hydraulic civilization theory holds that _____________.

a) water is the key to survival in the desert
b) cities able to control irrigated farming over large hinterlands hold power over others
c) irrigation is the key to the advancement of agriculture
d) cities on islands will always dominate those on the nearby mainland
e) rising sea levels will inevitably destroy coastal civilizations

b

Which of the following is not an Old World culture hearth?

a) the Indus Valley
b) the Ganges Delta
c) Mesopotamia
d) the Mecca area of the Arabian Peninsula
e) the lower Nile Valley

d

Which area was least influenced by the spread of Islam?

a) Yemen
b) Bosnia
c) China
d) Northern Nigeria
e) Turkestan

c

What is the difference between expansion diffusion and relocation diffusion?

a) In the case of expansion diffusion, a phenomenon originates in an area, remains strong there, and spreads outward; in relocation diffusion, the phenomenon is carried by migrants to a distant location and diffuses from there.
b) In the case of relocation diffusion, a phenomenon originates in an area, remains strong there, and spreads outward; in expansion diffusion, the phenomenon is carried to a distant location and diffuses from there.
c) Expansion diffusion involves direct contact; relocation diffusion requires a mobile host that transmits the diffused innovations at different locales.
d) Expansion diffusion continues endlessly; relocation diffusion is a staged process affecting an even larger area in periodic waves.
e) Relocation diffusion requires mass communication such as television; expansion diffusion takes place by direct contact.

a

Shi’ite Muslims constitute the great majority of the population of _____________.

a) Egypt
b) Israel
c) Saudi Arabia
d) Turkey
e) Iran

e

About 85 percent of Muslims consider themselves _____________.

a) Imams
b) Shi’ite
c) Asian Orthodox
d) Sharia
e) Sunni

e

The dominant form of Islam in Saudi Arabia is _________________.

a) Sharia
b) Wahhabism
c) Shi’ite
d) Dubayy (Dubai)
e) Talibanic

b

The empire that ruled over much of Southwest Asia prior to World War I was the _______.

a) Ottoman
b) Persian
c) Byzantine
d) British
e) Arab-Islamic

a

Which of the following countries is not a major oil producer?

a) Kuwait
b) Azerbaijan
c) Iraq
d) Iran
e) Jordan

e

Which of the following statements is INCORRECT?

a) The overwhelming majority of Egypt’s people live within 20 kilometers (12 mi) of the Nile.
b) The Blue Nile originates in Ethiopia.
c) The largest of all Nile River control projects is the Aswan High Dam.
d) Egypt’s largest city, Cairo, is located on the shore of Lake Nasser in Upper Egypt.
e) The White Nile originates in East Africa.

d

the city of __________ is located at the confluence of the White Nile and Blue Nile, and serves as the capital of __________.

a) Khartoum; Sudan
b) Timbuktu; Ethiopia
c) Cairo; Egypt
d) Jersualem; Jordan
e) Basra; Iraq

a

The Aswan High Dam is located on the ___________.

a) Shatt-al-Arab waterway
b) Nile River
c) Jordan River
d) Suez Canal
e) Tigris River

b

Egypt’s peasant farmers are known as the _____________.

a) Shatt-al Arabs
b) fellaheen
c) Shi’ites
d) Toilers of the Tell
e) Bedouins

b

Which of the following is not located in the vicinity of the Nile Delta?

a) Alexandria
b) Aswan High Dam
c) Cairo
d) Suez Canal
e) Lower Egypt

b

The upstream country that could control the flow of the Nile River into Egypt is ____________.

a) Iraq
b) Israel
c) Sudan
d) Libya
e) Chad

c

Darfur Province, the recent scene of a massive ethnic cleansing, is located in the central-west of ___________.

a) Egypt
b) Sudan
c) Libya
d) Turkey
e) Chad

b

Which of the following is not located within the Maghreb region?

a) the Atlas Mountains
b) Casablanca
c) the southern shore of the Strait of Gibraltar
d) the Anatolian Plateau
e) the area known as the Tell

d

The western North African countries of Algeria, Tunisia, and Morocco are collectively called the ______________.

a) Maghreb
b) African Transition Zone
c) Near East
d) Tell
e) Levant

a

Which of the following oil producers does not border the Persian Gulf?

a) Iran
b) Kuwait
c) Libya
d) Saudi Arabia
e) United Arab Emirates

c

The major mountain range in North Africa is the ______________.

a) Sahara Uplands
b) Atlas Mountains
c) Libyan Alps
d) Sandes Altiplano
e) Golan Heights

b

Which of the following statements is FALSE?

a) Morocco became embroiled in a territorial dispute when it annexed Western Sahara.
b) Many people have been migrating to Algeria over the past 10 years.
c) In Algeria, oil revenues have replaced farm produce as the major export.
d) Thriving commercial agriculture is found in all three Maghreb states.
e) The entire Atlas Mountain Range is contained within the Maghreb region.

b

Spain’s North African coastal exclaves of Ceuta and Melilla have land borders with which country?

a) Egypt
b) Tunisia
c) Phoenicia
d) Morocco
e) Algeria

d

Which North African country fought a bitter war of liberation against the French?

a) Egypt
b) Libya
c) Algeria
d) Tunisia
e) Sudan

c

This country is the smallest in North Afric, but has the highest GNI per capita in North Africa.

a) Chad
b) Israel
c) Tunisia
d) Morocco
e) Libya

c

Which of the following rivers flows through Iraq?

a) Euphrates
b) Jordan
c) White Nile
d) Blue Nile
e) Indus

a

In Iraq, the Shi’ite population is concentrated in the ___________.

a) northwest
b) capital
c) western border area near Jordan
d) southeast

d

Iraq’s oil cities of Kirkuk and Mosul are located within the area of _____ population.

a) Kurdish
b) Iranian
c) Shi’ite
d) Kuwaiti
e) Sunni

a

The Syrians have lost which piece of territory to the Israelis?

a) Gaza
b) Lebanon
c) the West Bank
d) the Golan Heights
e) Kurdistan

d

Jordan has absorbed large numbers of _____________.

a) Lebanese
b) Israelis
c) Kurds
d) South Syrians
e) Palestinians

e

The modern state of Israel was created in __________.

a) 1923
b) 1937
c) 1948
d) 1959
e) 1967

c

Israel regards which city as its capital?

a) Tel Aviv
b) Haifa
c) Beirut
d) Jerusalem

d

The state of Israel was ______________________.

a) settled by people fleeing the Zionist policies of Nazi Germany
b) created from territory that was formerly administered by the British
c) a part of the Ottoman Empire that was ceded to the Jews in 1923
d) created out of the country of Palestine that previously had no Jewish population
e) founded after World War I

b

Which of the following countries does not share a common border with Israel?

a) Iran
b) Egypt
c) Jordan
d) Lebanon
e) Syria

a

Which of the following statements is INCORRECT?

a) Israel’s population is about 8 million.
b) Israel’s Security Barrier walls off the West Bank.
c) In 2005 Israel decided to yield the Gaza Strip to the Palestinian Authority.
d) The United Nations gave Jerusalem to the Israelis under the 1947 partition resolution.
e) The Palestinians and the Israelis both desire Jerusalem as their capital.

d

From 1949 until 1967, West Jerusalem was controlled by _____________.

a) Jordan
b) Palestine
c) Lebanon
d) Israel
e) the United Nations

d

The largest oil reserves in the realm are located in _______________.

a) Israel
b) Libya
c) Kuwait
d) Saudi Arabia
e) Iran

d

In Saudi Arabia, _____________________.

a) petroleum reserves are concentrated along the Red Sea coast
b) the east has boomed while the west has lagged behind
c) the Rub al Khali lies in the national core area
d) its declining population now barely exceeds 10 million
e) Shi’ites outnumber Sunni Muslims

b

Which of the following countries is not located on the Arabian Peninsula?

a) Syria
b) Kuwait
c) Oman
d) Qatar
e) Bahrain

a

The Rub al Khali (Empty Quarter) lies near the border between Saudi Arabia and ______________.

a) Israel
b) Iraq
c) Yemen
d) Dubai
e) Kuwait

c

The United Arab Emirates includes the rapidly developing, oil-rich sheikhdom known as ____________.

a) Kuwait
b) Oman
c) Abu Dhabi
d) Bahrain
e) Qatar

c

The country that controls the Musandam Peninsula that protrudes into the Persian Gulf is _______________.

a) Yemen
b) Dubai
c) Oman
d) Iran
e) Saudi Arabia

c

The choke point known as the ____________ lies between Yemen and Djibouti.

a) Hormuz Strait
b) Shatt-al-Arab
c) Bab el Mandeb Strait
d) Gulf of Suez
e) Strait of Gibraltar

c

Kemal Atatürk is most closely identified with the city of __________.

a) Constantinople
b) Mecca
c) Istanbul
d) Ankara
e) Baghdad

d

Turkey’s application for membership in the EU will be helped by all but which of the following?

a) resolution of the Cyprus situation
b) cession of Crete to Greece
c) continuation of a secular government
d) improved treatment of the Kurdish minority
e) all of the above

b

Iran differs from most of the North Africa/Southwest Asian realm in that it ____________.

a) is non-Islamic
b) borders Russia
c) is predominantly Shi’ite
d) is ruled by a monarchy
e) has no oil deposits

c

The capital of Iran, located in the foothills of the Elburz Mountains is ______________.

a) Khomeini City
b) Tehran
c) Ahmadinejad
d) Persepolis
e) Baghdad

b

Which of the following is not one of the republics of Turkestan?

a) Kazakhstan
b) Uzbekistan
c) Turkmenistan
d) Azerbaijan
e) Tajikistan

d

The majority population in the north of Kazakhstan is ________________.

a) Kazakh
b) Russian
c) Uzbek
d) Armenian
e) Chinese

b

The body of water devastated by Soviet irrigation schemes is the _______________.

a) Black Sea
b) Aral Sea
c) Caspian Sea
d) Arctic Ocean
e) Sea of Galilee

b

Which of the following republics of Turkestan contains an ethnic majority of Persian origin?

a) Kazakhstan
b) Uzbekistan
c) Turkmenistan
d) Tajikistan
e) Afghanistan

d

A country that can be identified as a classic buffer state is _____________.

a) the West Bank
b) Iraq
c) Lebanon
d) Afghanistan
e) Egypt

d

The most important ethnic group in Afghanistan is the ______________.

a) Pushtuns (Pathans)
b) Turkmen
c) Taliban
d) Kurds
e) Qaeda

a

The Vakhan Corridor is found within the country of _____________.

a) Lebanon
b) Saudi Arabia
c) Afghanistan
d) China
e) Pakistan

c

The most important "Arab Spring" revolt occurred in __________________.

a) Tunisia
b) Egypt
c) Libya
d) Yemen
e) Bahrain

b

The discovery of this product in southern Sudan sparked the independent movement that eventually led to the division of the country:

a) gold
b) uranium
c) oil
d) water
e) salt

c

This country, situated between the Maghreb and the Sahara Desert and the home of Timbuktu, experienced a military coup in 2012:

a) Tunisia
b) Mali
c) Mauritania
d) Libya
e) Chad

b

Which of the following was least influenced by the spread of Islam?
A) Yemen
B) Bosnia
C) China
D) Northern Nigeria
E) Turkestan: The Six States of Central Asia

c

The North Africa/Southwest Asia realm contains about __________ percent of the world’s oil reserves.
A) 10
B) 35
C) 55
D) 85
E) 95

c

Which of the following oil producers does not border the Persian Gulf?
A) Iran
B) Kuwait
C) Libya
D) Saudi Arabia
E) United Arab Emirates

c

The largest oil reserves in the realm are located in:
A) Israel
B) Libya
C) Kuwait
D) Saudi Arabia
E) Iran

d

Which of the following is not an impact of the oil economy in this realm?
A) Outmigration from the realm
B) Infrastructure development
C) Foreign investment and involvement
D) The diffusion of Islamic revivalism
E) An increase in regional disparities

a

Which region of Sudan is set to vote on possible independence in 2011?
A) Darfur.
B) The South.
C) Northern Sudan.
D) Blue Nile.
E) Red Sea.

b

The Shi’ites in Iraq:
A) are outnumbered by the country’s Sunni population
B) live in the northern part of the country
C) were Saddam Hussein’s strongest supporters
D) had their religious freedom restricted by Saddam Hussein’s regime
E) fought on the side of Iran in the Iraq-Iran War

d

Which of the following statements about Lebanon is false?
A) All the various religious denominations have come to an accommodation that has provided peace in the country for the past decade.
B) It is now a majority Muslim state.
C) The country fell apart in 1975 when a civil war broke out.
D) Beirut was once known as the "Paris of the Middle East."
E) Hizbullah has established a base in the Shi’ite South.

a

Israel regards which city as its capital?
A) Tel Aviv
B) Haifa
C) Beirut
D) Jerusalem
E) Golan

d