GEOG 100 QUIZ 5 - The Rub al Khali (Empty Quarter) lies

American Military University GEOG 100 QUIZ 5 Week 5

Quiz # 5 Week 5 North Africa/Southwest Asia.

Part 1 of 1 -         100.0/ 100.0 Points

Question 1 of 25

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

•           A. Israel.

•             B. Iraq.

•             C. Yemen.

•             D. Dubai.

 

Question 2 of 25

Which of the following statements about Israel is false

•             A. Israel's population is about 8.2 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.

 

Question 3 of 25

Which group constitutes the majority in Jordan?

•             A. Lebanese

•             B. Israelis

•             C. Palestinians

•             D. Kurds

 

Question 4 of 25

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

•             A. the Indus Valley

•             B. the Ganges Delta

•             C. Mesopotamia

•             D. the Mecca area of the Arabian Peninsula

 

Question 5 of 25

What country controlled West Jerusalem from 1949 until 1967?

•             A. Jordan

•             B. Palestine

•             C. Lebanon

•             D. Israel

 

Question 6 of 25

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

•             A. Khartoum/Sudan

•             B. Timbuktu/Ethiopia

•             C. Cairo/Egypt

•             D. Kabol/Afghanistan

 

Question 7 of 25

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

•             A. Kazakh

•             B. Russian

•             C. Uzbek

•             D. Armenian

 

Question 8 of 25

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

 

Question 9 of 25

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

•             A. Khomeini City.

•             B. Tehran.

•             C. Ahmadinejad.

•             D. Persepolis

 

Question 10 of 25

Which body of water was devastated by Soviet irrigation schemes?

 

•             A. Black Sea

•             B. Aral Sea

•             C. Caspian Sea

•             D. Shatt-al-Arab

 

Question 11 of 25

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 12 of 25

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

•             A. Morocco became embroiled in a territorial dispute when it annexed Western Sahara.

•             B. Maghreb countries were all former British colonies.

•             C. In Algeria, oil revenues have replaced farm produce as the major export.

•             D. Thriving commercial agriculture is found in all three Maghreb states.

 

Question 13 of 25

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 14 of 25

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

•             A. resolution of the Cyprus situation

•             B. cession of Crete to Greece

•             C. continuation of a secular government

•             D. improved treatment of the Kurdish minority

 

Question 15 of 25

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

•             A. Kuwait.

•             B. Oman.

•             C. Abu Dhabi.

•             D. Bahrain.

 

Question 16 of 25

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

•             A. Turkey

•             B. Kuwait

•             C. Azerbaijan

•             D. Iraq

 

Question 17 of 25

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

•             A. It was settled by people fleeing the Zionist policies of Nazi Germany.

•             B. It was created from territory that was formerly administered by the British.

•             C. It was a part of the Ottoman Empire that was ceded to the Israelis in 1923.

•             D. It was created out of the country of Jordan

 

Question 18 of 25

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

 

•             A. Yemen

•             B. Bosnia

•             C. Japan

•             D. Northern Nigeria

 

Question 19 of 25

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

•             A. Gaza

•             B. Lebanon

•             C. the West Bank

•             D. the Golan Heights

 

Question 20 of 25

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

•             A. Hormuz Strait

•             B. Shatt-al-Arab

•             C. Bab el Mandeb Strait

•             D. Gulf of Suez

 

Question 21 of 25

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

•             A. Iran

•             B. Egypt

•             C. Jordan

•             D. Lebanon

 

Question 22 of 25

Israel regards which city as its capital?

•             A. Tel Aviv

•             B. Haifa

•             C. Beirut

•             D. Jerusalem

 

Question 23 of 25

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

•             A. 1923

•             B. 1937

•             C. 1948

•             D. 1959

 

Question 24 of 25

Which city is most closely identified with Kemal Atatürk?

•             A. Constantinople

•             B. Mecca

•             C. Tehran

•             D. Ankara

 

Question 25 of 25

Which of the following is true of Saudi Arabia?

•             A. Its petroleum reserves are concentrated in the west.

•             B. It has a Palestinian population of about 350,000.

•             C. It is the realm’s biggest state.

•             D. Its declining population now barely exceeds 10 million.