Geography 100 Review 2
Patagonia is ___________________
A sparsely populated region in Argentina and Chile
The Hausa are ______________
A tribe in Nigeria
The capital of Ethiopia is _______________
Addis Ababa
The Red Sea separates ________________________
Africa and the Arabian peninsula
The Berbers are an ethnic group in ________
Algeria
The Falklands are especially coveted by _________ for their balmy climate and resort development potential, being located off the country's southern tip
Argentina
The country that contains the Pampas, Chaco, and Patagonia is _________
Argentina
_____ irrigation is the name given to the Nile Valley's water-control system of the past century, wherein floodwaters are trapped behind dams for the distribution to farm fields during drier periods
Basin
Quechua is spoken in _______
Bolivia
Lake Titicaca is situated in ________________
Bolivia and Peru
Mato Grosso Plateau is in ______
Brazil
The country that presently administers the Falkland Islands, and which responded to the Argentinian invasion of 1982 by launching a successful military expedition is _______
Britain
Copper and nitrates are the two resources that strongly shaped the economic history and geography of the state of _____
Chile
The South American country that contains the southern terminus of the Andes Mountains chain is _____
Chile
The Atacama Desert is in _________________
Chile, Peru, Bolivia, and Argentina
Turkey and Greece bitterly contest the control of the large eastern Mediterranean island of ______, which was granted independence by the British in 1960
Cyprus
French rule over its African colonies is best described as _________
Direct colonization
Gran Chaco is _____________
East Bolivia, Paraguay, and Northern Argentina
The Aswan High Dam is located in _____
Egypt
Cabinda is an ________ ___________
Exclave of Angola
Although Guyana and Suriname were granted independence from Britain and the Netherlands respectively, the third Guiana continues to be a colony of _____
France
The capital of Guyana is ___________
Georgetown
Kwame Nkrumah is associated with __________
Ghana
The mineral found at the confluence of the Orange and Vaal Rivers that changed the economic geography of South Africa is ________
Gold
What first attracted settlers to the southeast of Brazil?
Gold
The capital of Zimbabwe is ______
Harare
The pre-European Indian Empire centered in the northeastern Andean Altiplanos and headquartered at Cuazaco was the ____ civilization
Inca
Shi'ite Muslims constitute the great majority of the population of ____
Iran
The Kurds are a national group struggling for a political identity along the northern and eastern peripheries of ____
Iraq
The city of Basra is in ____
Iraq
The Ottoman Empire was headquartered in the city of _______________
Istanbul
The state of Zimbabwe takes its name from ______
Its ancient trading post
The Kikuyu are associated with _____
Kenya
The city of _________ is located at the confluence of the White Nile and Blue Nile and serves as the capital of _____
Khartoum / Sudan
The Gulf of Sidra is associated with _____
Libya
The Western North African countries of Algeria, Tunis, and Morocco constitute a region known as ________
Maghreb
Islam's holiest city to which a Muslim must make at least one pilgrimage is ______
Mecca
The plain land between the Tigris and the Euphrates Rivers comprise the world cultural heart known as _____
Mesopotamia
Belo Horizonte and Volta Redonda are most closely identified with Brazil's __________
Metallurgy
Zimbabwe's Great Dyke is ________________
Mineral rich
The capital of Oman is _______
Muscat
The most populous country in Africa, which is also a member of OPEC, is _______
Nigeria
Chile's copper deposits are located in ___________
North Chile
Most of the population of Chile is located in _________________
Northern Chile
Suriname is a country in _______________
Northern South America
The OPEC cartel is concerned with the settling of policies for the sale of ___
Oil
The dominant economic activity in Venezuela's lake Maraca Ibo Lowland is ___
Oil
The major river of Venezuela's iron-rich eastern region is _______
Orinoco
The capital of Suriname is ___________
Paramaribo
Llanos are ______
Plains
The capital of Trindad and Tobago is _____________
Port of Spain
The language of the Inca state, still spoken in parts of South America, is known as _______
Quechua
President Nasser's significance in the geopolitical history of Egypt is ________
Reunite arab nations / nationalize suez canal / aswan high dam
The capital of Brazil before the founding of Brasilia was _______________
Rio de Janeiro
Brazil's largest city is ___________
Sao Paolo
South America's largest city in population size, which surpassed Rio de Janeiro over 30 years ago, is _________
Sao Paolo
Over 50 percent of the oil produced in the Middle East comes from
Saudi Arabia
The Great Dykes of Kimberly and Witwatersrand are important areas of _________
South Africa (minerals: diamonds and gold)
The Shona are an ethnic group in ________________
Southern Africa / Zimbabwe
Tierra del Fuego is in _______
Southern tip of Chile and Argentina
Kinshasa is located in ___________
The Democratic Republic of the Congo
The Euphrates and Tigris Rivers originate in ________
The Taurus mountains in Turkey
Kilimanjaro is _____________________________
The highest mountain in Africa, located in Tanzania, and has three dormant volcanoes
In Columbia, the Andes divide into ___________
Three mountain ranges
Zimbabwe won its independence _________________
Through war in 1980
The Bosporus is located in ______
Turkey
Rio Uruguay from the boundary between ______________
Uruguay and Argentina
The South American country that contains the northern terminus of the Andes Mountains chain is ___________
Venezuela
The country of _________ is South America's leading exporter of crude oil
Venezuela
The country of _________ was formerly a British colony before its independence in 1966
Venezuela
The Andes Mountains extend along
Venezuela, Columbia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, and Argentina
Gambia is located in __________
West Africa
Sana'a is in ______
Yemen
Nigeria's post-independence federal capital of Lagos was situated within the culture area of ______
Yoruba
The Copperbelt region is the vital producing area of the state of ______
Zambia
The copperbelt is a vital producing area of the state of _______
Zambia
An altiplano is ______________
a high Andrean mountain range
The map of the world agriculture shows the South America's Amazon Basin is an area most used for _______
farming
A flat plain in Argentina is known as ______
pampas
The major mountain range in North Africa is_________
the Atlas Mountains
The Limpopo is _____________________
the northern most province of South Africa, also a river
In Iraq, the Shi'ite population is concentrated in _________
the south
