geo test 2

In what year was the modern state of Israel created?:

1948

The United Arab Emirates includes the oil-rich sheikhdom known as:

Abu Dhabi

Which country could be called a classic buffer state?

Afghanistan

Which of the following statements about the Maghreb states is false?

Algeria has seen many people migrating in over the past 10 years.

Which city is most closely identified with Kemal Atatürk?

Ankara

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

Aswan High Dam

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

Azerbaijan

Which of the following is known as the choke point between Yemen and Djibouti?

Bab el Mandeb Strait

Which of the following best describes the basic tenet of hydraulic civilization theory?

Cities able to control irrigated farming over large hinterlands held power over others.

What city served as the headquarters for the Ottoman Empire?

Constantinople

Which of the following rivers flows through Iraq?

Euphrates

Which of the following is true of Saudi Arabia?

It has a Palestinian population of about 350,000.

Which of the following is true of the state of Israel?

It was created from territory that was formerly administered by the British.

Israel regards which city as its capital?

Jerusalem

13) The city of _____ is located where the White Nile and Blue Nile converge, and serves as the capital of _____.

Khartoum/Sudan

Which group constitutes a majority in the Iraq oil cities of Kirkuk and Mosul?

Kurds

Which group constitutes the majority in Jordan?

Palestinians

What is the most important ethnic group in Afghanistan?

Pashtuns

More than 80 percent of Muslims consider themselves:

Sunni

Which of the following republics of Turkestan contains an ethnic majority that is Persian rather than Turkic?

Tajikistan

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

Tehran

Which of the following statements about Israel is false?

The United Nations gave Jerusalem to the Israelis under the 1947 partition resolution.

Which of the following statements about the Lower Nile Basin is false?

The White Nile originates in East Africa

What is left of the Aral Sea is found to the east of the Caspian Sea along the border of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan

True

This country is the smallest in North Africa, but has a higher urbanization level than surrounding countries.

Tunisia

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

Turkey

What is the dominant form of Islam in Saudi Arabia?

Wahhabism

In which country is the Vakhan Corridor located?

afghanistan

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

algeria

Which body of water was devastated by Soviet irrigation schemes?

aral sea

What is the major mountain range in North Africa?

atlas mountains

_____ irrigation is the name given to the Nile Valley's water-control system of the past century, wherein floodwaters are trapped behind dams for distribution during drier periods.

basin

Which of the following is the most populous city in North Africa/Southwest Asia?

cairo

Which of the following will not help Turkey's application for membership in the EU?

cession of Crete to Greece

Which area was influenced the least by the spread of Islam?

china

The term _____ refers to the processes by which cultural traits expand outward from their source area or cultural hearth.

cultural diffusion

What is the term for a phenomenon that originates in an area, remains strong there, and spreads outward?

expansion diffusion

About 50 percent of Egypt's population lives in the Nile River Valley.

false

Egypt's Aswan High Dam was specifically built to hold back the waters of the Nile Delta.

false

In all the countries of North Africa/Southwest Asia, 90 percent or more of the people adhere to Islam.

false

Islam was founded before Judaism and Christianity.

false

Kemal Atatürk was chiefly responsible for moving Turkey's capital from the interior Anatolian Plateau to the southern Mediterranean coast.

false

Sunnis outnumber Shi'ites in Iraq.

false

The ancient capital of Turkey was Ankara.

false

What is the term for Egypt's subsistence farmers?

fellaheen

All Muslims are expected to make a pilgrimage during their lifetime to Mecca in Saudi Arabia known as the _____.

hajj

Shi'ite Muslims constitute the majority of the population of:

iran

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

iran

What country controlled West Jerusalem from 1949 until 1967?

israel

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

libya

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

mecca

Which of the following is the name for the land between the rivers?

mesopotamia

The Aswan High Dam is located on the:

nile

Which country controls the Musandam Peninsula that protrudes into the Persian Gulf?

oman

What empire ruled over much of Southwest Asia prior to World War I?

ottoman

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

pakistan

Which of the following constitutes the majority population in the north of Kazakhstan?

russian

Which country has the largest concentration of known petroleum reserves in the world?

saudi arabia

In Iraq, the Shi'ite population is concentrated in:

southeast

In what country is Darfur Province, the scene of a massive conflict in which hundreds of thousands have died?

sudan

Which upstream country could control the flow of the Nile River into Egypt?

sudan

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

syria

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

the Golan Heights

Wbat is the collective name for the western North African countries of Algeria, Tunisia, and Morocco?

the Maghreb

Which of the following is not one of the world's earliest culture hearths?

the Mecca area of the Arabian Peninsula

North Africa/Southwest Asia is also referred to as all of the following except:

the far east

Afghanistan was created in the nineteenth century as a buffer state between Russian and British spheres of influence.

true

North Africa and Southwest Asia is not entirely Muslim.

true

Saudi Arabia, the largest country on the Arabian Peninsula, contains only about 29.7 million people.

true

The Garagum (Kara Kum) Canal project irrigates large parts of Turkmenistan.

true

The Gulf of Sidra is located adjacent to Libya.

true

The Tell includes the slopes of the Atlas Mountains and the narrow coastal plain to its north.

true

The Vakhan Corridor has the effect of making China one of Afghanistan's neighbors.

true

The fellaheen are Egypt's subsistence farmers.

true

The spread of Islam provides an example of expansion diffusion.

true

Uzbekistan is located near the center of Turkestan.

true

Five of the six countries in the North Africa/Southwest Asia region of _____ were under Soviet control before 1992.

turkestan

The country of _____ is in a complicated position as it tries to maintain historical ties with Islamic countries to the east while satisfying Western conditions for admission to the European Union.

turkey

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

yemen