Geography 102 - Ch. 8 Quiz

Muhammad was born in Mecca __________ years after the birth of Christ.

571

Modern __________ has become the cornerstone of the Arab world; more Arabs live in its capital city than in any other city on Earth.

Egypt

__________ is considered the world's second-largest religion.

Islam

Though most of the population in the Middle East is Islamic, there are exceptions, such as in __________, which has a Jewish majority.

Israel

__________ is the world's largest landlocked nation.

Kazakhstan

__________ are the main attraction of the region driving the economic forces that determine the development patterns of individual countries.

Natural resources

The holy cities of Mecca and Medina are located in __________.

Saudi Arabia

Oman controls the tip of land next to the __________.

Strait of Hormuz

After a series of wars and considerable negotiations, the central problems remain: Jews and Palestinians both want the same land, both groups want Jerusalem to be their capital city, and neither group can find a compromise.

True

Both Presidents Bush, former vice-President Dick Cheney and former Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice had business interests in petroleum in regions dominated by the political and military power of Saddam Hussein.

True

In Saudi Arabia, the mutawa'een (religious police) have the authority to arrest people for morally offensive actions.

True

The Lebanon Mountains reach as much as ten thousand feet in elevation and allow for the operation of ski resorts.

True

Tradition states that the angel Gabriel appeared to Muhammad while he was meditating in a mountain cave in 610 CE, when he was about forty years old.

True

As the lone democracy on the peninsula, __________ contrasts with the more conservative Islamic states and monarchies that are more common in the Middle East.

Yemen

In a 1945 meeting in San Francisco, the United Nations accepted a proposal to create __________ carved out of land in Palestine.

a Jewish state

The main problem with Libya's new drinking water system is that underground aquifers are not considered __________.

a renewable resource

Mesopotamia gave rise to a historical cradle of civilization that included the__________ Empire, established during the Bronze Age.

all of these - Sumerian - Akkadian - Assyrian - Babylonian

Palestinians living in __________ can only rely on outside support to survive.

both the Gaza Strip and the West Bank

Though various climate types can be found in this realm, the __________ climate dominates and covers most of the physical area.

dry or arid type B

Afghanistan's national government in the capital city of Kabul has little influence in the country's rural regions in large part due to the many __________ living there.

ethnic factions

Drip irrigation mixed with fertilizers is called __________.

fertigation

Which of these is permitted in Saudi Arabia?

none of these

Countries are called __________ when religious codes take precedence over civil law.

religious states

Sunni Arabs dominate central Iraq in a region often referred to as __________, which includes the three cities of Baghdad, Tikrit and Ramadi.

the Sunni Triangle

Minerals are mined in the mountains that dominate the Arabian Peninsula's __________ regions.

western and southern