Geography Test 3

Front 1

In what part of Sub-Saharan Africa are the most secure wildlife reserves located?

Back 1

The southern potion of the region

Front 2

In what country are powdered rhino horns from Sub-Saharan Africa valued as a traditional medicine?

Back 2

China

Front 3

What parts of Sub-Saharan Africa are most vulnerable to global climate change?

Back 3

Semi-arid regions

Front 4

The Sahel is a

Back 4

zone of ecological transition between the Sahara to the north and the wetter savannas and forests to the South.

Front 5

How has the existence of the Great Escarpment, which runs from southwestern Angola and ends in northeaster South Africa, affected coastal settlement in the region?

Back 5

It was an impediment to settlement.

Front 6

Which group of Africans bears a disproportionate burden of the AID's epidemic in the region?

Back 6

Women

Front 7

What role did disease play in European efforts to colonize Africa?

Back 7

Endemic tropical diseases in Sub-Saharan Africa killed many Europeans, and delayed their conquest of the region.

Front 8

The Boers

Back 8

were dutch settlers in South Africa

Front 9

What is the racial category used in the country of South Africa to define people of mixed European and African ancestry?

Back 9

coloureds

Front 10

In what Sub-Sahara African country has a civil war occurred in it Darfur region?

Back 10

Sudan

Front 11

What was the first European country to have extensive contact with Sub-Saharan Africa?

Back 11

Portugal

Front 12

The demise of apartheid in South Africa

Back 12

culminated with a decision by the majority white party to hold free elections.

Front 13

What two groups fought each other in the Boer War?

Back 13

British and Dutch

Front 14

How did Germany lose its African colonies?

Back 14

After its defeat in world War 1, Great Britain and France divided Germany's African territory.

Front 15

What country has begun offering African nations money for roads, railways and schools with relatively few strings attached in order to secure oil from African countries to fuel its development?

Back 15

China

Front 16

*What do we call the countries Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia as a group?

Back 16

The Maghreb

Front 17

*Which of the following is NOT one for the environmental problems facing North Africa/Southwest Asia?

Back 17

Hurricanes

Front 18

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

Back 18

Lebanon

Front 19

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

Back 19

Turkey

Front 20

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?

Back 20

Isreal

Front 21

What is "dryland" agriculture?

Back 21

agriculture that depends largely on seasonal precipitation to support farming.

Front 22

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

Back 22

Gaza strip, West Bank, Sinai Peninsula, Bethlehem

Front 23

Why do most people migrate with and emigrate from southwest Asia and North Africa?

Back 23

to take advantage of job oppurtunities

Front 24

Why is the region of southwest Asia and North Africa considered a culture hearth?

Back 24

It was an early center for agriculture, several great civilizations, and it was the center for three major world religions.

Front 25

People making a hajj (pilgrimage) to Makkah and Medinah must travel to which country of Southwest Asia and North Africa?

Back 25

Saudi Arabia

Front 26

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

Back 26

Saudi Arabia

Front 27

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

Back 27

Mediterranean Sea and Red sea

Front 28

Which of the following countries of southwest Asia and North Africa experiences earthquakes with the greatest frequency?

Back 28

Turkey

Front 29

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

Back 29

Istanbul, Turkey-31.5 of the options given

Front 30

What is a physiological density?

Back 30

a population statistic that relates the number of people in a country to the amount of arable land.

Front 31

Which river divides the unglaciated part of the European lowland in the south from the glaciated plains in the north?

Back 31

The Rhine

Front 32

What are the current impacts of climate change in Europe?

Back 32

Sea ice is dwindling, there is sparse snow cover in arctic Scandinavia, and thee are frequent droughts in the water-starved Mediterranean region.
(All of the above)

Front 33

Why is the North European Plan also known as the "lowland" of Europe?

Back 33

Most of it is less than 500 feet in elevation

Front 34

What is a fjord?

Back 34

A flooded valley originally carved out by glaciers.

Front 35

In Which European country would you find fjords?

Back 35

Norway

Front 36

Which of the following is Not a reason for opposing unlimited migration into Europe?

Back 36

concerns about the ability of Europe to produce enough food for these additional people

Front 37

What term describes the fragmented geopolitical processes involved with small-scale independence movements and the phenomenon of mini-nationalism as it develops along ethnic fault lines?

Back 37

balkanization

Front 38

What are the anchor countries of the European Union?

Back 38

Germany, France, Italy, United Kingdom (UK)

Front 39

What is the word for an array of nonaligned or friendly states that cushion or protect a larger country from invasion as happened with the former Soviet Union and its Eastern European neighbors?

Back 39

buffer zone

Front 40

Which of the following landscapes of England was created over thousands of years by grazing sheep and cattle?

Back 40

heath land

Front 41

NATO

Back 41

North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Founders, France, Denmark, Canada, Belgium, Iceland, Luxembourg, Norway, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, USA, UK, in April 4, 1949 (wikipedia)

Front 42

Arab Spring

Back 42

protests throughout Africa and East Asia

Front 43

Dawn of Humanity

Back 43

Eastern Africa