Geo Test 2

Southeastern Turkey is part of the homeland of this minority ethnic group:

Kurds

Essay Question Evaluate problems exporting energy oil and natural gas from Central Asia. (Hint: consider past, present and future)

Landlocked. Fighting over control and scandals

Which statement regarding Ukraine's relationship with Russia is the most accurate? A) The Orange Revolution drove the Ukrainian people totally away from Russia. B) The Ukraine no longer depends upon Russia for its energy resources. C) More Ukrainians consider Russian to be their first language than Ukrainian. D) The Ukraine has dropped all ties with Russia and has aligned itself with the European Union. E) The Ukrainian government has paid off all its old debt to Russia and can stand on its own.

More Ukrainians consider Russian to be their first language than Ukrainian.

The most precipitation occurs in which country?

Morocco

Essay Question Discuss challenges presented by the landforms and climate in Russia. (Hint: geophysical, focus on Russia only)

Mountain ranges don't protect areas from the cold air coming in and the long winters make growing any kind of crop hard.

Besides Angola, what other country in southern Africa was described as an insurgent state?

Mozambique

______ in Central Asia flourished under the soviets. Buddhism. Islam. Christianity None of the above

None of the above

The two major divisions of Islam are ________ and ________.

Sunni; Shi'ite

In Iran, who are the mullahs/mujtahids?

The Islamic clergy responsible for interpreting religious law

Which of these Countries of Northern Eurasia has the most land area and population? Belarus Azerbaijan Armenia Georgia Ukraine

Ukraine

Dormant and active ________ are associated with the East African Rift Valley System.

volcanos

Vertical nomadism alternates herds between _____ _____in the lower elevations and _____ _____ in the uplands.

winter pastures/summer pastures

A supertanker traveling from Iraq to Europe, which won't fit through the Suez Canal, would likely stop here for a support stop.

South Africa

The highest elevations in Northern Eurasia are in the:

South and East

Nearly ________ percent of the population in the Middle East and North Africa now lives in urban areas.

70

The formidable physical conditions found in Russia, and the remoteness of most locations:

Add to development costs

What is a qanat?

An underground tunnel that moves water from its source to a field

The largest ethnic group in the Middle East and North Africa are:

Arabs

Which of the following is located in the Caucasus Mountains region?

Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia, All the above

Diamonds, discovered in 1967, have propelled ________ to be one of Africa's fastest-growing economies.

Botswana

Originating in India, ________ actually traveled through Central Asia on its way to China and Japan.

Buddhism.

Russian uses the Cyrillic alphabet due to the once close connection with the ________ empire.

Byzantine

Which climate dominates Russia?

Continental

Essay Question Evaluate which of the methods of dealing with water deficits seems most promising for North Africa and the Middle East.

Desalination. solar power to help desalination.

What is the Sahel region's most significant environmental concern?

Desertification and food insecurity

________ expanded rapidly from its core in the western Arabian Peninsula to dominate most of the Middle East and North Africa by the mid-eighth century.

Islam

Prior to the Soviet period Central Asia was closely tied to the Middle East because of its ________ heritage.

Islamic

A home-grown, sophisticated defense industry has become a major arms exporter and foreignexchange earner. This statement describes:

Israel

Why was the Berlin Conference of 1884 an important event?

It was the beginning of the formal era of colonialism in Africa.

The Aral Sea is located in

Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan

Essay Question Evaluate the future of the Aral Sea in Central Asia. (Hint: consider geophysical, cultural, economic)

Kazakhstan is working on expanding the Aral sea and adding fish, but it is going to take a long time to get the area back to it's original state.

________, where surface erosion and relatively high groundwater levels result in water being found close to the surface, served historically as important staging points for thecaravan trade that linked more productive regions across the generally barren desert wastelands of the Middle East and North Africa.

Oases

Dependence on revenues from the export of ________ and ________ ________ makes the Russian economy vulnerable to price fluctuations in the international markets for these products.

Petroleum and natural gas

Essay Question Discuss environmental challenges (interactions between man and the environment) in Northern Eurasia. (Hint: how man has changed the environment, includes entire region)

Pollution. Unregulated industry, vehicles, and nuclear disposal. deforestation.

_________ _______ in Central Asia is low.

Population density

The religion most dominant in southern Africa is:

Protestant

The Taliban movement began in the madrasahs, or ________, financed by the Saudi Arabian government and located on the border of Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Quranic schools

The religion most dominant in central Africa is:

Roman Catholicism

The most important destination for laborers migrating from Tajikistan is:

Russia

Which of these was not a direct result of "The Great Game"? A) The Wakhan Corridor was created to separate British India from the Russian controlled Pamir Mountains to West China. B) Afghanistan was considered part of the British sphere of influence. C) Russia did colonize much of Central Asia. D) War never broke out but relations were strained between Russia and Great Britain. E) Central Asia stagnated as it became a pawn in the imperial land grabs made by Russia and Great Britain.

Russia did colonize much of Central Asia.

Which of the following statements is true concerning resource potential in Northern Eurasia?

Russia has the largest natural gas reserves in the world.

The presence of a distinctly European-style opera house in Tajikistan is evidence of Soviet-era:

Russification.

The ________ region is a transition zone between the savanna and desert environments of sub-Saharan Africa.

Sahel

Which statement is least accurate about Central Asia and Afghanistan? A) All the countries are landlocked. B) When the five former Soviet republics became independent, they did not have the resources to build highways or railroads to other countries. C) The main activities in these countries were industrial in nature. D) Their main economic focus is on agriculture and/or resource extraction. E) The Soviet Union always considered this area to be backward.

The main activities in these countries were industrial in nature.

Essay Question Evaluate the stresses that oil wealth puts on Gulf State societies. (Hint: consider culture, social, urban)

The money coming from the oil causes people who have money to not understand how to invest it and use it in "western" ways that go against the islamic religion.

Russians now call the countries that once formed part of the U.S.S.R. the ________ ________.

The near abroad

From 1920 to 1991, the Central Asian countries of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan were part of the:

Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

Russian population is densest to the ________ of the Ural Mountains.

West

Mediterranean agriculture is common in all of the following except:

Yemen

Essay Question .How do physical features influence the distribution of population in Africa?(Hint: geophysical of all types, compare population distribution maps and geophysical maps)

You are going to find a higher population in areas that have access to water and fertile soil to grow crops.

What would a foreign investor from Saudi Arabia find attractive about agriculture in Ukraine?

both fertile soils and ideal climate for grain production

The Congo Basin is in _____ Africa.

central

Somalia is noted for this type of rule, in which patrilineal descent groups define the political and legal status of people and assign them specific social claims and obligations.

clanocracy

Astana, Kazakhstan experiences hot summer, cold winters, and arid conditions; these conditions are typical of ________ climates.

continental

Because ________ is Central Asia's most important resource, dominating the large agricultural sector and constituting the region's most important export, national and local governments tightly control arable land and especially the best irrigated land.

cotton

The Soviet control of Central Asia was marked by all of except

creating republics based solely on ethnicity.

The major factor for the shrinking of the Aral Sea was

diversion of water from rivers that fed into it for the purpose of irrigating crops.

Leeward sides of mountains tend to be ________ than the windward sides.

drier

____ _____ means to grow crops using only available precipitation.

dry farming

African rivers have limited navigability because they frequently are interrupted by ________

falls and rapids.

After the Soviet Union ended:

health care in Russia deteriorated, and life expectancy for Russian men and women dropped.

Essay Question Why would a rural resident of a country in Sub-Saharan Africa move to a city slum?(Hint: culture, climate, others?)

jobs, drought, get away from family

The Sub-Saharan Africa region's limited continental shelves lend to: A) great beaches for tourism. B) excellent shipping harbors C) coastal agriculture D) none of the above

none of the above

Central Asia was regarded by Czarist administrators and Soviet planners as a(n):

peripheral, underdeveloped region

The accumulation of salts in the soil through evaporation is called:

salinization

A region characterized by intense political discord and subjected to external pressures is a:

shatterbelt

Chechnya, a troubled region in Russia, is found in the northern Caucasus Mountains, which is in ________ Russia.

southern

Ring of diamonds lies in ________ Africa.

southern

The word "talib" (plural "taliban") means

student

Russia's leaders historically have emphasized:

territorial expansion and service to the state.

The axis of an extensive trade network in northern Eurasia that linked the Baltic and Black Sea regions was:

the Dnieper River

The term "New Russians" refers to

the first wealthy class of Russians since 1917.

The insurgents fighting the occupation of Afghanistan by the Soviets were called

the mujahideen.