American Military University GEOG 101 Week 5 Quiz

Quiz # 5 Week 5 North Africa/Southwest Asia. Return to Assessment List Part 1 of 1 - 96.0/ 100.0 Points Question 1 of 25 4.0/ 4.0 Points The capital of Iran, located in the foothills of the Elburz Mountains, is: • A. Khomeini City. • B. Tehran. • C. Ahmadinejad. • D. Persepolis Question 2 of 25 4.0/ 4.0 Points Which of the following countries is not a major oil producer? • A. Turkey • B. Kuwait • C. Azerbaijan • D. Iraq Question 3 of 25 4.0/ 4.0 Points Which of the following countries does not share a common border with Israel? • A. Egypt • B. Jordan • C. Iran • D. Lebanon Question 4 of 25 4.0/ 4.0 Points Which group constitutes a large portion of the people living in Jordan? • A. Refugees. • B. Alawites. • C. Kurds. • D. Druze. Question 5 of 25 4.0/ 4.0 Points The city of _____ is located where the White Nile and Blue Nile converge, and serves as the capital of _____. • A. Kabol/Afghanistan • B. Cairo/Egypt • C. Khartoum/Sudan • D. Timbuktu/Ethiopia Question 6 of 25 4.0/ 4.0 Points The Rub al Khali (Empty Quarter) lies near the border between Saudi Arabia and: • A. Dubai. • B. Israel. • C. Yemen. • D. Iraq. Question 7 of 25 4.0/ 4.0 Points The United Arab Emirates includes the oil-rich sheikhdom known as ____. • A. Oman. • B. Kuwait. • C. Bahrain. • D. Abu Dhabi. Question 8 of 25 4.0/ 4.0 Points Which of the following is true of Saudi Arabia? • A. It has about half of all known petroleum reserves. • B. Less than one-fifth of the population is less than 15 years old. • C. It contains only one of Islam's holy cities. • D. Its population growth is exceeding its economic gains. Question 9 of 25 0.0/ 4.0 Points Which area was influenced the least by the spread of Islam? • A. Northern Nigeria • B. Bosnia • C. Yemen • D. Japan Question 10 of 25 4.0/ 4.0 Points Which of the following statements about the Lower Nile Basin is false? • A. The overwhelming majority of Egypt's people live within a dozen miles 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. Question 11 of 25 4.0/ 4.0 Points Which of the following is not one of the region's cultural hearths? • A. the Indus Valley • B. the Nile Delta • C. Mesopotamia • D. They are all cultural hearths within the region. Question 12 of 25 4.0/ 4.0 Points The city of Jerusalem came under what country's complete control in 1967? • A. Lebanon • B. Palestine • C. Jordan • D. Israel Question 13 of 25 4.0/ 4.0 Points Which city is the centrally located capital of Turkey? • A. Mecca • B. Ankara • C. Constantinople • D. Tehran Question 14 of 25 4.0/ 4.0 Points Which of the following will not help Turkey's application for membership in the EU? • A. Resolution of the Cyprus situation. • B. Improved treatment of the Kurdish minority. • C. Cession of Crete to Greece • D. Economic improvements. Question 15 of 25 4.0/ 4.0 Points The Syrians have lost which piece of territory to the Israelis? • A. the Golan Heights • B. Gaza • C. Lebanon • D. the West Bank Question 16 of 25 4.0/ 4.0 Points Which of the following is not located in the vicinity of the Nile Delta? • A. Alexandria • B. Aswan High Dam • C. Suez Canal • D. Cairo Question 17 of 25 4.0/ 4.0 Points Which body of water was devastated by Soviet irrigation schemes? • A. Black Sea • B. Caspian Sea • C. Shatt-al-Arab • D. Aral Sea Question 18 of 25 4.0/ 4.0 Points Which of the following statements about the Maghreb states is false? • A. In Algeria, oil revenues have replaced farm produce as the major export. • B. Morocco became embroiled in a territorial dispute when it annexed Western Sahara. • C. Thriving commercial agriculture is found in all three Maghreb states. • D. Maghreb countries were all former British colonies. Question 19 of 25 4.0/ 4.0 Points ________ was once a center of banking and finance, with a thriving capital city, but still hasn't fully recovered from the civil war that plagued it from 1975 to 1990. • A. Jordan • B. Syria • C. Israel • D. Lebanon Question 20 of 25 4.0/ 4.0 Points Which of the following constitutes the dominant population in the northeast of Kazakhstan? • A. Uzbeks • B. Armenians • C. Russians • D. Kazakhs Question 21 of 25 4.0/ 4.0 Points Conflicts related to the African transition zone caused the formation of which new nation? • A. Southern Morocco • B. Lower Egypt • C. South Sudan • D. Western Sahara Question 22 of 25 4.0/ 4.0 Points Which of the following is true of the state of Israel? • A. It was a part of the Ottoman Empire that was ceded to the Israelis in 1923. • B. The area occupied by Israel had no history of human occupation prior to the founding of the modern state of Israel. • C. It was created out of the country of Jordan • D. It was created from territory that was formerly administered by the British. Question 23 of 25 4.0/ 4.0 Points Which of the following is known as the choke point between Yemen and Djibouti? • A. Bab el Mandeb Strait • B. Hormuz Strait • C. Shatt-al-Arab • D. Gulf of Suez Question 24 of 25 4.0/ 4.0 Points Which of the following best describes the basic tenet of hydraulic civilization theory? • A. Water is the key to survival in the desert. • B. Cities able to control irrigated farming over large hinterlands held 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. Question 25 of 25 4.0/ 4.0 Points Which of the following statements about Israel is false? • A. In 2005 Israel decided to yield the Gaza Strip to the Palestinian Authority. • B. The United Nations gave Jerusalem to the Israelis under the 1947 partition resolution. • C. Israel's Security Barrier walls off the West Bank. • D. Israel's population is about 7.3 million.