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Q:
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
Q:
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
Q:
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
Q:
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
Q:
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
Q:
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
Q:
In which contemporary country of Southwest Asia and North Africa is Mesopotamia located?
A) Iraq
B) Iran
C) Syria
D) Turkey
E) Lebanon
Q:
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.
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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
Q:
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
Q:
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.
Q:
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
Q:
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
Q:
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
Q:
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.
Q:
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.
Q:
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
Q:
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
Q:
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.
Q:
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
Q:
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
Q:
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
Q:
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
Q:
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.
Q:
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
Q:
What is the typical status of women in Sub-Saharan Africa? Are there any signs of improvement?
Q:
Discuss the benefits and problems of foreign aid versus foreign investment in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Q:
Write an essay in which you discuss the role of conflict diamonds in ethnic and political conflict in Sub Saharan Africa. What is the Kimberly Process and how is it being used to address the connection between diamonds and conflict in Sub-Saharan Africa?
Q:
Why was the Berlin conference both an important event and an important symbol of European colonialism in Sub-Saharan Africa?
Q:
Discuss how African culture is connected to the globalization processes. Be sure to discuss the diffusion of African culture outside of Africa as well as the ways Africa is being influenced by a global culture.
Q:
What factors explain the large family size of Sub-Saharan Africa? What conditions would be necessary to encourage parents to have smaller families?
Q:
Write an essay discussing wildlife conservation efforts in Sub-Saharan Africa. Where has the decline of wildlife in this region been especially problematic? What are some of the initiatives that have been undertaken to conserve this resource?
Q:
Write an essay discussing tropical deforestation in Sub-Saharan Africa. Which countries in this region is deforestation especially problematic, and in which countries is it not so? What are the reasons for the differing rates of deforestation in these locations?
Q:
Women in Sub-Saharan Africa generally do not suffer the kinds of traditional social restrictions encountered in other parts of the developing world.
Q:
The first ten years after independence many Sub-Saharan Africa countries faced food insecurity and depressed economies.
Q:
Once independence was achieved, Sub-Saharan Africa countries were able to resolve ethnic and political conflicts within countries and regions.
Q:
All African countries are members of the Organization of African Unity (OAU).
Q:
European colonization was effective in countries throughout Sub-Saharan Africa, with the one exception of Ethiopia.
Q:
Efforts to reduce fertility rates in Sub-Saharan Africa did not begin in earnest until the 1980s.
Q:
Family size is large in much of Sub-Saharan Africa because of the high rate of urbanization.
Q:
What country outside of the region is involved in a 21st-century "land grab" in Sub-Saharan Africa?
A) China
B) the United States
C) Australia
D) France
E) Great Britain
Q:
Which of the following reflects one of the current favored explanations of African poverty?
A) tropical environments
B) lack of navigable rivers
C) infertile soils
D) depopulation due to the slave trade
E) dependence on foreign food-aid
Q:
The average GNI adjusted for PPP in Sub-Saharan Africa was
A) $2200.
B) $3300.
C) the lowest in the world.
D) $2200 and the lowest in the world.
E) $3300 and the second lowest in the world.
Q:
In the colonial period, which European country had primary control of northwest Africa?
A) Spain
B) Britain
C) Portugal
D) France
E) Germany
Q:
What region has seen the deadliest political and ethnic conflict, with an estimated 5 million war-related deaths?
A) Ivory Coast
B) Kenya
C) Democratic Republic of the Congo
D) Uganda
E) Mali
Q:
What African leader envisioned the political unity of Africa?
A) Nelson Mandela of South Africa
B) Jomo Kenyatta of Kenya
C) Felix Houphouet-Boigny of Ivory Coast
D) Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana
E) Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe
Q:
What language began as a trade language in Sub-Saharan Africa and is now the most widely spoken language in the region?
A) French
B) Arabic
C) Swahili
D) Spanish
E) Portuguese
Q:
Which indigenous language group is most widespread in Sub-Saharan Africa? A) Niger-Congo
B) Khoisan
C) Austronesian
D) Nilo-Saharan
E) Indo-European
Q:
On average, about how many children does a woman in Sub-Saharan Africa have during her lifetime?
A) 1 or 2
B) 3
C) 4
D) 5
E) 8 or more
Q:
Which of the following is an example of Apartheid's lasting legacy on the urban landscape of South Africa?
A) the mixture of European and Islamic architecture
B) the presence of a "Global Central Business District" or CBD
C) squatter settlements called townships
D) the development of the Silicon Savannah
E) the walled and gated palace in Ibadan
Q:
What has limited areas where cattle can be raised in Sub-Saharan Africa?
A) the encroachment of desert-like conditions in tropical rainforest areas
B) infestations of the tsetse fly
C) pastoralists claim to land for the purpose of blood and milk consumption
D) the introduction of coffee in Rwanda
E) the prevalence of lions and other large predators
Q:
Swidden agriculture involves
A) burning the natural vegetation to release nutrients.
B) exporting high value agricultural goods.
C) the production of yams for export.
D) animal husbandry.
E) irrigating desert farm land.
Q:
Judith Carney has documented the introduction of this plant by African slaves to the Americas, leading to its eventual global popularity.
A) Sorghum
B) Millet
C) Corn
D) Rice
E) Yams
Q:
The physical geography of southern Africa is defined by this landform, a steep cliff separating the coastal lowlands from the plateau uplands.
A) The Rift Valley
B) Lake Nyasa
C) The Great Escarpment
D) Gondwana
E) Kalahari Desert
Q:
What is being proposed as an alternative biofuel to reduce deforestation in Africa?
A) Bamboo
B) Eucalyptus
C) Savanna Woodlands
D) Tropical Hardwoods
E) Switchgrass
Q:
What country in the region is a cautionary tale about the limits of the ability of a valuable natural resource, such as oil, to promote development?
A) Angola
B) Sudan
C) Nigeria
D) South Africa
E) Namibia
Q:
A ban on elephant poaching was removed in the late 1990s to
A) provide needed monetary resources for developing economies in the region.
B) allow local ranchers to protect their cattle herds.
C) to allow some African states to sell down their inventories of ivory.
D) to supply ivory to the large Chinese market.
E) Elephants herds had recovered to a stable populations size.
Q:
In what country are powdered rhino horns from Sub-Saharan Africa valued as a traditional medicine?
A) Yemen
B) China
C) Ghana
D) Niger
E) France
Q:
The Sub-Saharan African vegetation zone characterized by a mixture of trees and tall grasses with rainfall occurring in late Spring through early Fall is
A) Tropical Forest.
B) Desert.
C) Savanna.
D) Coniferous Forest.
E) Tropical and Coniferous Forest.
Q:
Precipitation in Sub-Saharan Africa A) primarily occurs in the summer months.
B) varies significantly.
C) is consistent year round.
D) is heaviest in winter months.
E) is greatest in the southern portion of the region.
Q:
The soil type alfisols is found in what areas of Sub-Saharan Africa?
A) tropical rainforest
B) Sahara desert
C) grasslands and semidesert areas
D) the Sahel
E) grasslands, semidesert areas and the Sahel
Q:
An explanation for Sub-Saharan Africa's relatively poor soils is
A) that most of the region's soils are old.
B) the lack of alluvial lowlands.
C) the extensive glaciation of the continent during the last ice age.
D) that the soils that are old and the lack of alluvial lowlands.
E) the lack of extensive glaciation and older soils.
Q:
What river has been a major supplier of commercial energy for decades in the region of southern Africa?
A) Congo
B) Niger
C) Nile
D) Zambezi
E) Limpopo
Q:
As a region, what is the unifying characteristic of Sub-Saharan Africa?
A) common religious beliefs
B) similar livelihood systems and shared colonial experience
C) shared language
D) unified political system
E) similar philosophy
Q:
Describe the migration patterns that are common in the Caribbean, including those that lead its residents to North America.
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What are Maroon societies and how do they provide a strong reflection of African roots in the Caribbean today?
Q:
Discuss the 2010 Haitian earthquake, including Haiti's proximity to tectonic plates, the damage, and how the poverty of Haiti worsened the effects of this devastating event.
Q:
Discuss the environmental degradation and poverty that is prevalent in Haiti. Be certain to emphasize the historical factors that have led to this situation in the country.
Q:
Discuss how social and economic inequality in Haiti has contributed to a cycle of environmental degradation and poverty.
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Throughout the Caribbean women have high social status.
Q:
Caribbean countries attract foreign ownedassembly-plant industries by offering cheap labor and local tax breaks.
Q:
CARICOM was created by former Spanish colonies in the Caribbean.
Q:
Haiti has presented the most serious threat to U.S. foreign policy interests in the Caribbean since the 1950s.
Q:
Jamaica is a possession of the United States and its residents are U.S. citizens.
Q:
The language spoken by the most people in the Caribbean is French.
Q:
Belize is the site of a wildlife sanctuary created by villagers that protects black howler monkeys.
Q:
87 percent of the population of the Caribbeanlive in the Greater Antilles.
Q:
The hurricanes that wrack the Caribbean originate in the Pacific Ocean.
Q:
Islands are the dominant landform in the Caribbean.
Q:
What are remittances?
A) income generated in the Caribbean from the sale of agricultural products
B) receipts from tourist revenues in the Caribbean
C) deposits placed in offshore banks in the Caribbean
D) tax receipts from investors in Free Trade Zones in the Caribbean
E) money sent back home to the Caribbean from migrants in the U.S.