geo test 2 example #41602

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

More than 80 percent of Muslims consider themselves:

What is the dominant form of Islam in Saudi Arabia?

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

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

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

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

The Aswan High Dam is located on the:

What is the term for Egypt's subsistence farmers?

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

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

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

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

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

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

What is the major mountain range in North Africa?

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

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

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

Which of the following rivers flows through Iraq?

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

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

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

Which group constitutes the majority in Jordan?

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

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

Israel regards which city as its capital?

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

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

Which of the following statements about Israel is false?

What country controlled West Jerusalem from 1949 until 1967?

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

Which of the following is true of Saudi Arabia?

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

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

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

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

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

What city served as the headquarters for the Ottoman Empire?

Which city is most closely identified with Kemal Atatürk?

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

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

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

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

Which body of water was devastated by Soviet irrigation schemes?

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

Which country could be called a classic buffer state?

What is the most important ethnic group in Afghanistan?

In which country is the Vakhan Corridor located?

North Africa and Southwest Asia is not entirely Muslim.

Islam was founded before Judaism and Christianity.

The spread of Islam provides an example of expansion diffusion.

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

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

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

The fellaheen are Egypt's subsistence farmers.

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

The Gulf of Sidra is located adjacent to Libya.

Sunnis outnumber Shi'ites in Iraq.

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

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

The ancient capital of Turkey was Ankara.

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

Uzbekistan is located near the center of Turkestan.

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

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

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

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

_____ 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.

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

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

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.

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