Deck 7: The North African-Southwest Asian Realm

Question 1

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

A) Kuwait
B) Libya
C) Iraq
D) Iran
E) Jordan

Answer 1

E

Question 2

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

A) Pakistan
B) Iran
C) Iraq
D) Egypt
E) Islamic State (ISIS)

Answer 2

A

Question 3

Which of the following is not an Old World culture hearth?

A) the Indus Valley
B) the Ganges Delta
C) Mesopotamia
D) the western Arabian Peninsula centered on Mecca
E) the lower Nile Valley

Answer 3

D

Question 4

Which of the following statements is INCORRECT?

A) The overwhelming majority of Egypt's people live within 20 kilometers (12 mi) of the Nile.
B) The Blue Nile originates in Ethiopia.
C) The largest of all Nile River control projects is the Aswan High Dam.
D) Egypt's largest city, Cairo, is located on the shore of Lake Nasser in Upper Egypt.
E) The White Nile originates in East Africa.

Question 5

Which of the following is NOT an impact of oil-related development in the NASWA realm?

A) outmigration from the realm
B) infrastructure development
C) foreign investment and involvement
D) the diffusion of Islamic revivalism
E) an increase in intraregional disparities

Question 6

What is the difference between expansion diffusion and relocation diffusion?

A) In the case of expansion diffusion, a phenomenon originates in an area, remains strong there, and spreads outward; in relocation diffusion, the phenomenon is carried by migrants to a distant location and diffuses from there.
B) In the case of relocation diffusion, a phenomenon originates in an area, remains strong there, and spreads outward; in expansion diffusion, the phenomenon is carried to a distant location and diffuses from there.
C) Relocation diffusion involves direct contact; expansion diffusion requires a mobile host that transmits the diffused innovations at different locales.
D) Expansion diffusion continues endlessly; relocation diffusion is a staged process affecting an even larger area in periodic waves.
E) Relocation diffusion requires mass communication such as television; expansion diffusion takes place by direct contact.

Question 7

According to Figure 6-5,the British colonized all of the following EXCEPT ___________.

A) Egypt
B) Iraq
C) Syria
D) Palestine
E) TransJordan

Question 8

Hydraulic civilization theory holds that _____________.

A) water is the key to survival in the desert
B) cities able to control irrigated farming over large hinterlands hold power over others
C) irrigation is the key to the advancement of agriculture
D) cities on islands will always dominate those on the nearby mainland
E) All of the choices are correct.

Question 9

The three largest countries in population size in the North Africa/Southwest Asia realm are ____________.

A) Israel, Jordan, and Pakistan
B) Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and Iran
C) Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Yemen
D) Egypt, Kazakhstan, and Morocco
E) Egypt, Iran, and Turkey

Question 10

The empire that ruled over much of Southwest Asia at the start of World War I was the _______ Empire.

A) Ottoman
B) Persian
C) French
D) British
E) Arab-Islamic

Question 11

According to Figure 6-4,which country did not experience Islamic rule at some time in the past?

A) Egypt
B) Israel
C) Spain
D) Germany
E) India

Question 12

Shi'ite Muslims constitute the great majority of the population of _____________.

A) Egypt
B) Algeria
C) Saudi Arabia
D) Turkey
E) Iran

Question 13

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

A) Iran
B) Kuwait
C) Libya
D) Saudi Arabia
E) United Arab Emirates

Question 14

The largest oil reserves in the NASWA realm underlie _______________.

A) Israel
B) Libya
C) Kuwait
D) Saudi Arabia
E) Egypt

Question 15

According to Figure 6-6,which country possesses one of the five largest oil reserves in the world but is not one of the five leading oil producers?

A) Russia
B) Iran
C) Iraq
D) Venezuela
E) Libya

Question 16

About 85 percent of Muslims consider themselves to be _____________.

A) Caliphs
B) Shi'ites
C) Asian Orthodox adherents
D) Sharias
E) Sunnis

Question 17

The United Arab Emirates includes the rapidly developing,oil-rich sheikhdom named ____________.

A) Kuwait
B) Oman
C) Abu Dhabi
D) Bahrain
E) Qatar

Question 18

_____ is the name for the "land between the rivers."

A) Levant
B) Mesopotamia
C) Choke Point
D) Maghreb
E) The Fertile Crescent

Question 19

The dominant form of Islam in Saudi Arabia is known as _________________.

A) Sharia
B) Wahhabism
C) Shi'ism
D) Muslim Orthodox
E) Talibanic

Question 20

Which modern-day state was least influenced by the diffusion of Islam?

A) Yemen
B) Bosnia
C) China
D) Northern Nigeria
E) Turkestan

Question 21

Which of the following rivers flows through Iraq?

A) Euphrates
B) Jordan
C) White Nile
D) Blue Nile
E) None of the choices are correct.

Question 22

Israel considers its capital to be the city of ?

A) Tel Aviv
B) Haifa
C) Bethlehem
D) Jerusalem
E) Golan

Question 23

Darfur Province,the recent scene of a massive ethnic cleansing,is located in the central-west of ___________.

A) Egypt
B) Sudan
C) Libya
D) Turkey
E) Morocco

Question 24

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

A) Alexandria
B) Aswan High Dam
C) Cairo
D) Suez Canal
E) Lower Egypt

Question 25

As Figure 6-12 shows,Damascus is the capital of __________.

A) Turkey
B) Syria
C) Lebanon
D) the Golan Heights
E) Iran

Question 26

The discovery of this commodity in southern Sudan sparked the independence movement that eventually led to the division of the country:

A) gold
B) uranium
C) oil
D) water
E) salt

Question 27

The city of __________ is located at the confluence of the White Nile and Blue Nile,and serves as the capital of __________.

A) Khartoum; Sudan
B) Timbuktu; Ethiopia
C) Cairo; Egypt
D) Jerusalem; Jordan
E) Basra; Iraq

Question 28

Since 1948,Jordan has absorbed large numbers of _____________ people.

A) Lebanese
B) Jewish
C) Kurdish
D) South Syrian
E) Palestinian

Question 29

Iraq's oil cities of Kirkuk and Mosul are located within the culture area of the _____ population.

A) Kurdish
B) Iranian
C) Shi'ite
D) Turkic
E) Sunni

Question 30

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

A) Iran
B) Egypt
C) Jordan
D) Lebanon
E) Syria

Question 31

The Syrians lost which piece of territory to the Israelis in the 1967 war?

A) Gaza
B) Lebanon
C) the West Bank
D) the Golan Heights
E) the Right Bank

Question 32

The upstream country that potentially can control the flow of the Nile River into Egypt is ____________.

A) Iraq
B) Israel
C) Ethiopia
D) Libya
E) Turkey

Question 33

In Iraq,the Shi'ite population is concentrated in the ___________.

A) northwest
B) area centered on Baghdad
C) western border area near Jordan
D) southeast
E) Shi'ite Triangle in the center

Question 34

The state of Israel was ______________________.

A) settled by people fleeing the Zionist policies of Nazi Germany
B) created from territory that was formerly administered by the British
C) a part of the Ottoman Empire that was ceded to the Jews in 1923
D) created out of the country of Palestine that previously had no Jewish population
E) founded shortly after World War I

Question 35

The modern state of Israel was created in __________.

A) 1923
B) 1937
C) 1948
D) 1959
E) 1967

Question 36

According to Figure 6-12,the city of Baghdad lies within a zone dominated by a _____________ population.

A) predominantly Shi'ite
B) predominantly Sunni
C) predominantly Kurdish
D) mixed Sunni/Shi'ite populations
E) jihadist ISIS

Question 37

Which of the following statements is INCORRECT?

A) Israel's population is about 8 million.
B) Israel's Security Barrier walls off the West Bank.
C) In 2005 Israel decided to yield the Gaza Strip to the Palestinian Authority.
D) The United Nations gave Jerusalem to the Israelis under the 1947 partition resolution.
E) The Palestinians and the Israelis both want Jerusalem to be their capital.

Question 38

In Saudi Arabia,_____________________.

A) petroleum reserves are concentrated along the Red Sea coast
B) the east has boomed while the west has lagged behind
C) the Rub al Khali lies in the national core area
D) its declining population now barely exceeds 10 million
E) Shi'ites outnumber Sunni Muslims

Question 39

From 1949 until 1967,West Jerusalem was controlled by _____________.

A) the West Bank
B) Palestine
C) Lebanon
D) Israel
E) the United Nations

Question 40

The Aswan High Dam is located on the ___________.

A) Shatt-al-Arab waterway
B) Nile River
C) Persian Gulf
D) Suez Canal
E) Red Sea

Question 41

The country that controls the Musandam Peninsula that protrudes into the Persian Gulf is _______________.

A) Yemen
B) Dubai
C) Oman
D) Iran
E) Saudi Arabia

Question 42

Kemal Atatürk is most closely identified with the city of __________.

A) Constantinople
B) Mecca
C) Istanbul
D) Ankara
E) Baghdad

Question 43

The leading mountain range of North Africa is the ______________.

A) Saharan Uplands
B) Atlas Mountains
C) Libyan Alps
D) Anatolian Plateau
E) Golan Heights

Question 44

Spain's North African coastal exclaves of Ceuta and Melilla have land borders with which country?

A) Egypt
B) Tunisia
C) Portugal
D) Morocco
E) Algeria

Question 45

Ethnically speaking,Turks are not Arabs.

Question 46

Many Arabs are Christians.

Question 47

This country,located on the southern margin of the Sahara and the home of Timbuktu,has experienced much strife since 2011?

A) Tunisia
B) Mali
C) Sudan
D) Libya
E) Nigeria

Question 48

Which of the following is located in the African Transition Zone?

A) tropical rainforests
B) the Kalahari Desert
C) the Islamic Front
D) the Zambezi Basin
E) Madagascar

Question 49

Most countries in the African Transition Zone have a ____ population in the north and a _____ population in the south.

A) relatively large/sparse
B) Muslim/Christian-animist
C) non-Muslim/Muslim
D) African/Saharan
E) sedentary/nomadic

Question 50

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

A) Israel
B) Iraq
C) Yemen
D) Dubai
E) Kuwait

Question 51

Figure 6-15 shows that these two countries occupy strategic positions on the Hormuz Strait:

A) Oman and Iran
B) United Arab Emirates and Qatar
C) Saudi Arabia and Iran
D) Djibouti and Yemen
E) Iraq and Kuwait

Question 52

The western North African countries of Algeria,Tunisia,and Morocco are collectively called the ______________.

A) Maghreb
B) African Transition Zone
C) Nearest East
D) Tell
E) Levant

Question 53

This country is the smallest in North Africa,but has its highest GNI per capita.

A) Western Sahara
B) Israel
C) Tunisia
D) Morocco
E) Libya

Question 54

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

A) Egypt
B) Libya
C) Algeria
D) Tunisia
E) Sudan

Question 55

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

A) Syria
B) Kuwait
C) Oman
D) Qatar
E) Bahrain

Question 56

Iran differs from most of the North Africa/Southwest Asian realm in that it ____________.

A) is non-Islamic
B) borders Russia
C) is predominantly Shi'ite
D) is ruled by a monarchy
E) has no oil deposits

Question 57

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

A) the Atlas Mountains
B) Casablanca
C) the southern shore of the Strait of Gibraltar
D) the Anatolian Plateau
E) the area known as the Tell

Question 58

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

A) Khameini City
B) Tehran
C) Ahmadinejad
D) Persepolis
E) Baghdad

Question 59

Which of the following countries is NOT located in The African Transition Zone?

A) Mauritania
B) Mali
C) Niger
D) Somalia
E) Tanzania

Question 60

The choke point known as the ____________ lies between Yemen and Djibouti.

A) Hormuz Strait
B) Shatt-al-Arab
C) Bab el Mandeb Strait
D) Gulf of Suez
E) Strait of Gibraltar

Question 61

Islam was founded before Judaism and Christianity.

Question 62

The spread of Islam provides an example of expansion diffusion.

Question 63

In the process of relocation diffusion,whatever is being diffused enters an area when adopting individuals move and carry innovations with them.

Question 64

Iran today is the most important Shi'ite state.

Question 65

Most of Iran's 20 million workers are employed in energy production.

Question 66

Today,more than 80 percent of all Muslims are Sunnis.

Question 67

In the United Arab Emirates,Abu Dhabi and Dubai have most of the oil reserves.

Question 68

The wealth from oil income has been distributed evenly among the different subregions of the Middle East.

Question 69

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

Question 70

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

Question 71

As Figure 6-11 shows,the Darfur region is now contained within the new country of Southern Sudan.

Question 72

The majority of Iraq's Muslims are Shi'ites.

Question 73

The Nile Valley was an integral component of the Fertile Crescent,anchoring its eastern end.

Question 74

The Blue Nile and the White Nile converge to form the main Nile at Cairo.

Question 75

Saudi Arabia,the largest country on the Arabian Peninsula,contains less than 30 million people.

Question 76

The Bab el Mandeb Strait is a choke point at the outlet of the Persian Gulf.

Question 77

At one time,the Ottoman Empire controlled large parts of southeastern Europe.

Question 78

The "land between the rivers," the name of the Mesopotamian culture hearth,refers to the arable crescent lying between the Nile and Tigris Rivers.

Question 79

Israel captured the West Bank of the Jordan River in the 1967 war.

Question 80

Libya is an oil-poor country.