Geography Exam 3
40) You would be most likely to see a Shiite Muslim in which country?
B) Iran
52) What was the metaphorical name given to the policy of separation that divided Europe into two separate geopolitical and economic blocs after World War II?
B) Iron Curtain
6) The Apennines are found primarily in which nation?
B) Italy
7) Which country of Southwest Asia and North Africa has made efforts to preserve its famed "cedars" forestlands in recent years?
B) Lebanon
29) Which of the following places is the most likely source region for an immigrant to the United Kingdom?
B) South Asia (India and Pakistan)
74) The nation often described as the economic engine which drives much of Europe is
C) Germany
42) Which country of Europe has a large Muslim migrant population?
D) France
34) Which of the following religions arose in North Africa/Southwest Asia?
D) Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
41) Why did the population of Jews in Europe drop from 9.5 million before World War II to less than 2 million today?
D) Nazis and their sympathizers murdered approximately six million Jews in the Holocaust.
43) The most widely practiced religion in contemporary Europe is
A) Roman Catholicism
36) People making a Hajj (pilgrimage) to Makkah (Mecca) and Medinah (Medina) must travel to which country of Southwest Asia and North Africa?
A) Saudi Arabia
63) Which nation narrowly voted in 2014 to remain a part of the United Kingdom?
A) Scotland
34) Your native language is Danish. Which language will likely be the easiest for you to understand?
A) Swedish
67) Which of the following was a major determinant of the early industrial regions of Europe?
A) availability of coal
14) When narrow waterways are vulnerable to military blockade or disruption it is called a
A) choke point.
15) France depends on more than half of its energy supply from
A) nuclear power
9) The buildup of toxic salts in the topsoil where desert lands are subjected to extensive irrigation is known as
A) salinization
76) What is the currency of the European Monetary Union?
A) the euro
31) The most vexing problem facing European urban planners is
A) traffic congestion
78) Which was NOT a reason for the present economic crisis in Europe?
A) widespread Soviet interference in eastern Europe's economies
43) What percent of the Middle East and North Africa is currently Christian?
B) 4%
5) What mountain range in Europe is over 500 miles long and has peaks reaching 15,000 feet?
B) Alps
16) Which nation has an ambitious goal to meet half of its energy needs through wind power by 2020?
B) Denmark
12) Until recently in which region of Europe were environmental conditions the worst?
B) Eastern Europe
28) Where do most immigrants to France come from?
B) Former French colonies in North Africa and West Africa
79) The nation at the epicenter of the 2015 European Debt Crisis was
B) Greece
7) In which European country would you find fjords?
B) Norway
2) What does the acronym OPEC stand for?
B) Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
46) A sizeable percentage of the Muslim population residing in Germany are immigrants from which nation?
B) Turkey
56) Which two nations reunified shortly after the end of the Cold War?
B) West Germany and East Germany
48) Europe was the battleground for which wars during the 20th century?
B) World War I, World War II, and the Cold War
22) An influx of foreign workers into the United Arab Emirates has had what demographic impact?
B) it has created an extraordinary gender imbalance with far more males than females
37) Islam
B) originated in present-day Saudi Arabia.
25) What type of subsistence agriculture depends on the seasonal movement of livestock for their livelihood?
B) pastoral nomadism
39) What is the major factor determining whether a particular Slavic language uses the Latin alphabet or the Cyrillic alphabet in its written form?
B) the dominant religion of the people who speak that language
39) What is the Hajj?
B) the pilgrimage to Muhammed's birthplace (Makkah) that every Muslim is supposed to make during his or her lifetime
19) What best describes the natural growth rate in contemporary Europe?
B) there is a lack of natural growth as death rates exceed birth rates
23) Legal migrants now make up roughly what percent of the total population of the European Union?
C) 10%
17) What is the approximate population of Southwest Asia and North Africa?
C) 500 million
62) Which nation, formerly part of Yugoslavia, is deeply divided along ethnoreligious lines, with large minorities of Muslims, Roman Catholics and Orthodox Christians?
C) Bosnia & Herzegovina
30) The world's tallest skyscraper is now located in which city?
C) Dubai, United Arab Emirates
11) The famous Aswan High Dam is located in which nation?
C) Egypt
27) Which nation has accepted the highest total number of migrants, taking in an estimated 140,000 alone in 2016?
C) Germany
25) Which two war-torn nations have produced an enormous number of migrants seeking asylum in Europe, most notably Germany, in recent years?
C) Iraq and Syria
24) Which of the following places is NOT located in the Fertile Crescent of North Africa and Southwest Asia?
C) Morocco
3) What countries comprise the Maghreb of Southwest Asia/North Africa?
C) Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia
14) Which nations in Europe currently are most at risk from acid rain?
C) Poland and the Czech Republic
31) The largest source region for migrant workers entering Saudi Arabia is
C) South and Southeast Asia (ex. India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Philippines)
69) Which country played a major role in the economy of the countries of Eastern Europe in the decades following WWII?
C) Soviet Union
19) What is physiological density?
C) a population statistic that relates the number of people in a country to the amount of arable land
13) What plan did Europe introduce in 2005 to help the region fight climate change?
C) an emission trading scheme
58) What term describes the fragmented geopolitical processes involved with small-scale independence movements and the phenomenon of mini-nationalism as it develops along ethnic fault lines?
C) balkanization
54) What is the word for an array of nonaligned or friendly states that cushion or protect a larger country from invasion, as happened with the former Soviet Union and its Eastern European neighbors?
C) buffer zone
21) The Schengen Agreement, signed in 1985, meant that
C) crossing a European border required neither paperwork nor government approval.
1) From the perspective of which world region is Southwest Asia and North Africa the "Middle East"?
A) Europe
27) In which contemporary country of Southwest Asia and North Africa is Mesopotamia located?
A) Iraq
8) Which set of nations is landlocked?
E) Austria, Switzerland and Hungary
4) What European mountain range forms the political border between Spain and France?
A) Pyrenees
77) As of 2016, how many members of the 28-nation strong Eurozone use the euro as their currency?
A) 19
57) Which European country divided into two in a peaceful "Velvet Divorce"?
A) Czechoslovakia
66) In which country of Europe did the Industrial Revolution start?
A) England
33) What is the second-most widely spoken Germanic language in Europe, with roughly 60 million speakers?
A) English
35) What religion was the first monotheistic religion of Southwest Asia and North Africa?
A) Judaism
6) Which animal is most to blame for the loss of forests in Southwest Asia and North Africa?
C) goats
45) Large number of French-speaking Africans and Arab Muslims live in what areas of the cities of western Europe (most notably Paris)?
C) in high-density apartment buildings in the suburbs with little diversity
53) Which of the following was a geopolitical result of WWII?
C) the formation of an "Iron Curtain" separating a democratic Western Europe from a communist Eastern Europe
10) Which of the following resources will prove to be of critical value for Southwest Asia and North Africa in the coming decades?
C) water
5) By what name is the large peninsula of Turkey, located wholly in Asia, known?
D) Anatolia
59) In which nation(s) of Europe do Muslims comprise a majority of the population?
D) Bosnia, Kosovo and Albania
32) Which European city is considered to be the most "bicycle-friendly" in the world?
D) Copenhagen
9) What is Europe's longest river?
D) Danube
32) What world region has been a "powerful draw" as a destination of migration for people in Southwest Asia and North Africa who are looking for opportunity?
D) Europe
3) Which country of Europe is primarily located on the European Lowland?
D) Netherlands
40) Where is there still currently an internecine Christian conflict between Protestants and Catholics?
D) Northern Ireland
6) Which two nations have accepted the largest number of asylum seekers on a PER CAPITA (i.e. as a percent of their total population)?
D) Norway and Sweden
12) Which nation in the region has made huge investments in the development of deep-water wells to extract fossil water?
D) Saudi Arabia
33) What nation has had almost half of its entire population displaced by 2016 due to civil war and sectarian conflict?
D) Syria
28) What is a medina?
D) The walled urban core of an Islamic city; it is dominated by a central mosque.
13) Development of the upper Tigris and Euphrates rivers by this country could threaten water supplies in Iraq and Syria.
D) Turkey
51) What was the Cold War?
D) an ideological struggle between the United States and the former Soviet Union that lasted from 1946-1991, and included Soviet occupation of several European countries
49) What is the word for a state policy of reclaiming lost lands or lands inhabited by people of the same ethnicity in another state?
D) irredentism
38) Which of the following is NOT one of the five pillars of Islam?
D) making a pilgrimage to Jerusalem
26) What is transhumance?
D) seasonal movement of livestock to cooler, greener high-country pastures in the summer and returning them to lowland valleys during the winter
16) What is Southwest Asia and North Africa most likely NOT to face as a result of global climate change?
E) An increase in crop yields due to the increase in precipitation forecast for the region
15) Which of the following is NOT considered a chokepoint within the Middle East?
E) Dead Sea
29) Hosni Mubarak was overthrown as the leader of which nation in 2011?
E) Egypt
42) Coptic Christians make up a significant minority of the population of which nation?
E) Egypt
23) Which of the following statements most accurately describes the pattern of domestication in Southwest Asia and North Africa?
E) Experimentation with wild wheat and barley 10,000 years ago led to farm settlements and domestication of cattle, sheep, and goats.
18) The European population is characterized by which stage of the demographic transition?
E) Fifth
20) Which country in Southwest Asia & North Africa has seen a rapid decline in fertility rates in the last two decades?
E) Iran
4) The Atlas Mountains dominate the topography of which nation?
E) Morocco
80) Which European country has the highest representation of women in parliamentary offices?
E) Sweden
68) Economic cooperation in Western Europe at the end of World War II centered on what commodity (commodities)?
E) coal and steel
35) Catalan is a language primarily spoken
E) in the region around Barcelona, Spain
64) Which of the following has NOT been mentioned as a potential result of Brexit?
E) stronger economic ties between England and the European Union
2) By what other name is The European Lowland known?
E) the North European Plain
22) What event was an important cause of the surge of immigration to European countries (such as Germany) in the early 1990s?
E) the collapse of the Soviet Union
70) Which of the following was a prime factor for the economic collapse in Eastern Europe immediately following the end of the Cold War?
E) the loss of subsidized natural gas and oil from the Soviet Union coupled with the collapse of Soviet markets made it impossible for Eastern European industries to operate and compete
30) What percentage of Europe's population lives in urban areas?
E) three-fourths (75%)
20) Which of the following is NOT a future challenge facing Europe because of low (or zero) population growth?
E) widespread unemployment