Deck 7: Southwest Asia and North Africa

Question 1

The most significant patterns of migration in Southwest Asia and North Africa is

A) urban to rural.
B) rural to rural.
C) rural to urban.
D) international immigration from other Muslim countries in South and Southeast Asia.
E) rural to urban migration and international immigration from other Muslim countries in South and Southeast Asia.

Answer 1

E

Question 2

In which contemporary country of Southwest Asia and North Africa is Mesopotamia located?

A) Iraq
B) Iran
C) Syria
D) Turkey
E) Lebanon

Answer 2

A

Question 3

What is a medina?

A) The temporary settlements of families engaged in pastoral nomadism in Southwest Asia and North Africa.
B) The name for capital city in Southwest Asia and North Africa.
C) A mound built on the outskirts of Islamic cities in Southwest Asia and North Africa; it is a burial ground.
D) The walled urban core of an Islamic city; it is dominated by a central mosque.
E) The erosional materials left behind in Southwest Asia and North Africa after ancient lakes and rivers dried up.

Answer 3

D

Question 4

What world region has been a "particularly powerful draw" as a destination of migration for people in Southwest Asia and North Africa who are looking for opportunity?

A) North America
B) Australia and Oceania
C) East Asia
D) Europe
E) the Russian Domain

Question 5

Which country in Southwest Asia and North Africa has made efforts to preserve its famed "cedars" forestlands in recent years?

A) Libya
B) Lebanon
C) Turkey
D) Iran
E) Iraq

Question 6

Why is the island of Socotra,off the southeast coast of Yemen,considered unique?

A) It is one of the largest islands in the world.
B) It is one of the smallest islands containing permanent habitation.
C) It contains one of the largest untouched tropical forest preserves in the world.
D) It possesses a unique biological habitat, containing hundreds of plant species found nowhere else on Earth.
E) It has the lowest elevation of any place on the Earth.

Question 7

What countries comprise the Maghreb of Southwest Asia/North Africa?

A) Algeria, Libya, Egypt
B) Libya, Egypt, Tunisia
C) Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia
D) Tunisia, Libya, Egypt
E) Western Sahara, Algeria, Libya

Question 8

Which animal is most to blame for the loss of forests in Southwest Asia and North Africa?

A) camels
B) horses
C) goats
D) cows
E) the gypsy moth

Question 9

What is the chief problem associated with the use of groundwater in Southwest Asia and North Africa?

A) Groundwater is highly polluted by agricultural chemical runoff.
B) Groundwater is being depleted faster than it can be replaced, so it is inherently unsustainable.
C) Groundwater in this region is often contaminated with crude oil.
D) Drilling wells is very expensive.
E) All of the choices are correct.

Question 10

By what name is the large peninsula of Turkey,located wholly in Asia,known?

A) Maghreb
B) Levant
C) Middle East
D) Anatolia
E) Persia

Question 11

An influx of foreign workers into the United Arab Emirates has had what demographic impact?

A) a rise in birth rates
B) it has created an extraordinary gender imbalance
C) a decrease in birth rates
D) a rise in the elderly population
E) a rise in birth rates and an extraordinary gender imbalance

Question 12

The "Peace Corridor" project will bring water from what body of water into the Dead Sea?

A) Mediterranean Sea
B) Jordan River
C) Red Sea
D) Gulf of Aden
E) Persian Gulf

Question 13

Which of the following resources presents the greatest challenge for survival in Southwest Asia and North Africa?

A) petroleum
B) food
C) water
D) iron
E) human resources

Question 14

Development of the upper Tigris and Euphrates rivers by this country could threaten water supplies in Iraq and Syria.

A) Israel
B) Jordan
C) Lebanon
D) Turkey
E) Iran

Question 15

What is the major problem that Southwest Asia and North Africa is most likely to face as a result of global climate change?

A) Warmer average temperatures will likely increase evaporation and lower moisture throughout the region.
B) Sea level changes will threaten farmlands in the Nile Delta.
C) Crop yields could increase.
D) Hydroelectric potential may increase.
E) Sea level changes will threaten farmlands in the Nile Delta and warmer average temperatures will likely increase evaporation and lower moisture throughout the region.

Question 16

What is a "qanat"?

A) an irrigation system, developed in Iran, that taps into groundwater through a series of gently sloping tunnels
B) a type of subsistence agriculture practiced on oases
C) a formal title given to the monarch (national leader, like a king or queen) in the country of Saudi Arabia
D) the practice of seasonally moving livestock to cooler, greener, high country pastures in the summer, then returning them to valley and lowlands for fall and winter grazing
E) water supplies stored underground during earlier and wetter climatic periods

Question 17

From the perspective of which world region is Southwest Asian and North Africa considered the "Middle East"?

A) Europe
B) Australia and Oceania
C) East Asia
D) Sub-Saharan Africa
E) Latin America

Question 18

When narrow waterways are vulnerable to military blockade or disruption it is called a

A) choke point.
B) desalination.
C) salinization
D) fossil water.
E) qanat system.

Question 19

Which country in Southwest Asia & North Africa has seen the fastest decline in fertility rates in the last two decades?

A) Iraq
B) Syria
C) Turkey
D) Yemen
E) Iran

Question 20

Which of the following cities in Southwest Asia and North Africa receives the highest amounts of annual precipitation?

A) Cairo, Egypt
B) Istanbul, Turkey
C) Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
D) Tehran, Iran
E) Baghdad, Iraq

Question 21

The geography of human populations across Southwest Asia and North African demonstrate the ties between what resource and life in this part of the world?

A) oil
B) natural gas
C) timber
D) agriculture
E) water

Question 22

What religion was the first monotheistic religion of Southwest Asia and North Africa?

A) Judaism
B) Islam
C) Christianity
D) Bahai
E) Buddhism

Question 23

The Arab Spring uprisings were in part the result of

A) technology shaping cultural and political change.
B) changes in voting and civil rights.
C) the growth of Islamism.
D) the growth of Islamism and changes in voting and civil rights.
E) American military intervention.

Question 24

Islam

A) began within a few decades of the death of Jesus.
B) originated in present-day Saudi Arabia.
C) holds that Jesus was a false prophet.
D) says that there will be many more true prophets in the future.
E) has never had a foothold in Europe.

Question 25

Which of the following religions arose in North Africa/Southwest Asia?

A) Animism
B) Buddhism and Hinduism
C) Hinduism and Sikhism
D) Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
E) Shinto

Question 26

Which of the following is NOT one of the five pillars of Islam?

A) accepting that Muhammed was a prophet
B) praying five times a day
C) making charitable contributions
D) making a pilgrimage to Jerusalem
E) fasting during the month of Ramadan

Question 27

You would be most likely to see a Shiite Muslim in which country?

A) Morocco
B) Iran
C) Egypt
D) Turkey
E) Cyprus

Question 28

In which city of Southwest Asia and North Africa are there important religious sites for Judaism,Christianity,and Islam?

A) Istanbul, Turkey
B) Baghdad, Iraq
C) Jerusalem, Israel
D) Makkah, Saudi Arabia
E) Damascus, Syria

Question 29

Which part of Southwest Asia and North Africa was the last to be converted to Islam?

A) Saudi Arabia
B) Mesopotamia
C) Northern Egypt
D) Algeria
E) Yemen

Question 30

The kibbutz,a collectively worked settlement that produces grain,vegetable,and orchard crops,using irrigation,is associated with which country of Southwest Asia and North Africa?

A) Algeria
B) Iran
C) Iraq
D) Israel
E) Syria

Question 31

What is "dryland" agriculture?

A) agriculture in dry areas, made possible by irrigation
B) agriculture that depends largely on seasonal precipitation to support farming
C) agriculture that relies on special, hybridized crops that require almost no water
D) agriculture that occurs on oases in land that is otherwise desert
E) agriculture that occurs in desert lands, inside a greenhouse with a controlled environment

Question 32

What is physiological density?

A) a population statistic that relates the number of people in a country to the amount land in that country
B) a population statistic that relates the number of people in a country to the number of farmers
C) a population statistic that relates the number of people in a country to the amount of arable land
D) a population statistic that relates the number of people in a country to the number of doctors
E) a population statistic that relates the number of people in a country to the amount of food harvested

Question 33

People making a hajj (pilgrimage)to Makkah and Medinah must travel to which country?

A) Saudi Arabia
B) Israel
C) Egypt
D) Jordan
E) Iraq

Question 34

Which country in Southwest Asia and North Africa has taken steps to join the European Union?

A) Iraq
B) Israel
C) Lebanon
D) Sudan
E) Turkey

Question 35

Which of the following countries illustrates the changing role of women in Southwest Asia and North Africa?

A) Yemen
B) Saudi Arabia
C) Algeria
D) Turkey
E) Oman

Question 36

What is the approximate population of Southwest Asia and North Africa?

A) 100 million
B) 200 million
C) 500 million
D) 1 billion
E) 700 million

Question 37

Which of the following places is NOT located in the Fertile Crescent of North Africa and Southwest Asia?

A) eastern Turkey
B) Syria
C) Libya
D) Lebanon
E) northern Iraq

Question 38

What type of subsistence agriculture depends on the seasonal movement of livestock for their livelihood?

A) pastoralism
B) pastoral nomadism
C) plantation agriculture
D) shifting cultivation
E) slash-and-burn

Question 39

What is the Hajj?

A) the pilgrimage to the Holy Land that many Christians make during their lifetime
B) the pilgrimage to Muhammed's birthplace (Makkah) that every Muslim is supposed to make during his or her lifetime
C) the pilgrimage to the Western Wall in Jerusalem that many Jews make during their lifetime
D) the month-long fast that Muslims must undertake each year
E) the sacred book of Islam

Question 40

Which of the following statements most accurately describes the pattern of domestication in Southwest Asia and North Africa?

A) Experimentation with wild cattle, sheep, and goats 10,000 years ago led to pastoral nomadism, and later to domestication of wheat and barley and the establishment of farm settlements.
B) Experimentation with wild wheat and barley 10,000 years ago and the simultaneous domestication of cattle, sheep, and goats, which eventually led to establishing farming villages.
C) Experimentation with wild wheat and barley 5,000 years ago and the simultaneous domestication of cattle, sheep, and goats, which led to the establishment of farming villages.
D) Experimentation with wild wheat and barley 5,000 years ago and the simultaneous domestication of cattle, sheep, and goats. Farming villages and pastoral nomadism developed together.
E) Experimentation with wild wheat and barley 10,000 years ago led to farm settlements and domestication of cattle, sheep, and goats.

Question 41

Which of the following countries of Southwest Asia and North Africa has the most diversified economy,and is not reliant on oil?

A) Qatar
B) Kuwait
C) United Arab Emirates
D) Saudi Arabia
E) Turkey

Question 42

Hydropolitics is an important issue in North Africa/Southwest Asia because pollution has made so much of the water unacceptable for consumption.

Question 43

One of the most important patterns of migration in Southwest Asia & North Africa is rural-to-urban migration.

Question 44

Lebanon has made efforts to preserve its famed "cedars" forestlands in recent years.

Question 45

The lowlands of northern Morocco,Algeria and Tunisia experience some of the driest conditions in Southwest Asia and North Africa.

Question 46

A "qanat" is an irrigation system,developed in Iran,that taps into groundwater through a series of gently sloping tunnels.

Question 47

Saudi Arabia contains approximately ________ percent of the world's known oil supplies.

A) 5
B) 10
C) 20
D) 50
E) 40

Question 48

Deforestation is probably the oldest environmental problem in Southwest Asia and North Africa.

Question 49

Which two bodies of water were connected by the construction of the Suez Canal?

A) Black Sea and the Persian Gulf
B) Black Sea and Red Sea
C) Mediterranean Sea and Black Sea
D) Mediterranean Sea and Red Sea
E) Persian Gulf and Red Sea

Question 50

In which part of Israel has some land been returned to Palestinian control,but new Israeli settlements have also been allowed?

A) Sinai Peninsula
B) Gaza Strip
C) the West Bank
D) Bethlehem
E) the Dead Sea

Question 51

The Aswan High Dam is located in Iran.

Question 52

What does the acronym OPEC stand for?

A) Oil Producing and Exporting Countries
B) Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
C) Oil and Petroleum Exporting Corporation
D) Organization of Petroleum Energy Countries
E) Organized Petrochemical and Energy Countries

Question 53

Which country of Southwest Asia and North Africa is experiencing tension between Sunni and Shi'a Muslims?

A) Iraq
B) Israel
C) Saudi Arabia
D) Iran
E) Turkey

Question 54

Most countries in Southwest Asia and North Africa had achieved independence by which decade?

A) 1910s
B) 1920s
C) 1930s
D) 1940s
E) 1950s

Question 55

Which country of Southwest Asia and North Africa is the poorest on the Arabian Peninsula?

A) United Arab Emirates
B) Yemen
C) Dubai
D) Saudi Arabia
E) Kuwait

Question 56

The Ottoman Empire

A) was replaced by the Byzantine Empire.
B) eventually stretched into southern Europe.
C) was initially led by Christians.
D) imposed Shi'a Islam upon its subjects.
E) is a remnant of its former self in modern day Iran.

Question 57

Projected climate changes,such as warmer temperatures,in Southwest Asia and North Africa will likely decrease the amount of runoff in the region,further stressing stream and rivers and reducing hydroelectricity potential and diminishing water available for the region's increasingly urban population.

Question 58

Salinization,deforestation,overgrazing,and water shortages are environmental problems facing North Africa/Southwest Asia.

Question 59

Morocco,Algeria,and Tunisia comprise the Levant.

Question 60

What is brain drain?

A) The common name given to an illness caused by exposure to toxic residues from petroleum refining that results in short-term memory loss.
B) This occurs when highly centralized governments actively recruit the best and the brightest individuals for jobs in the national capital, leaving few behind in the villages.
C) This occurs when bright young people migrate to foreign lands in search of better jobs.
D) This is a rock group from the United Arab Emirates.
E) The common name given to the practice of providing scholarships to students in North Africa/Southwest Asia, which enables them to study abroad and gain a better education than that available in their home region. These scholars later return to share their new-found knowledge with their own students.

Question 61

The approximate population of Southwest Asia and North Africa is 200 million.

Question 62

Through 2014 there has been U.S.intervention in the civil war in Syria,in defense of rebel forces.

Question 63

If one were making a pilgrimage to Makkah and Medinah,one would travel to Egypt.

Question 64

Declining fertility rates in Southwest Asia & North Africa are the result of enforced state population policies.

Question 65

The most commonly spoken language in Southwest Asia and North Africa is Hebrew.

Question 66

Judaism,Christianity,and Islam arose in North Africa/Southwest Asia.

Question 67

The location of the population in North Africa and Southwest Asia is most often dependent on access to oil.

Question 68

There is currently no geopolitical conflict within the country of Turkey.

Question 69

Greece and Turkey have been involved in a conflict over ownership of Gaza and the West Bank.

Question 70

Kuwait,Qatar and the UAE have a foreign workforce greater than 60%.

Question 71

Turkish is NOT an Afro-Asiatic language.

Question 72

The walled urban core of an Islamic city dominated by a central mosque is called a medina.

Question 73

Islam originated in present-day Saudi Arabia.

Question 74

Pastoral nomadism in Southwest Asia and North Africa is rare in arid areas.

Question 75

Christianity was the first monotheistic religion of Southwest Asia.

Question 76

Pastoral nomadism is a type of commercial agriculture.

Question 77

Jerusalem contains the Dome of the Rock,the Al-Aqsa Mosque,and the Western Wall,holy sites for Jews,Christians,and Muslims.

Question 78

Mesopotamia is located in the modern-day country of Syria.

Question 79

The majority of Egypt's 85 million people live a long distance from the Nile River.

Question 80

The kibbutz,a collectively worked settlement that produces grain,vegetable,and orchard crops by using irrigation,is found in Israel.