GEOG 101 Week 5 Quiz

American Military University GEOG 101 Week 5 Quiz

Quiz # 5 Week 5 North Africa/Southwest Asia.

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96.0/ 100.0 Points

 

Question 1 of 25

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

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A.

Khomeini City.

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B.

Tehran.

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C.

Ahmadinejad.

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D.

Persepolis

 

Question 2 of 25

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

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A.

Turkey

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B.

Kuwait

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C.

Azerbaijan

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D.

Iraq

 

Question 3 of 25

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

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A.

Egypt

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B.

Jordan

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C.

Iran

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D.

Lebanon

 

Question 4 of 25

Which group constitutes a large portion of the people living in Jordan?
 

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A.

Refugees.

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B.

Alawites.
 

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C.

Kurds.

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D.

Druze.

 

Question 5 of 25

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

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A.

Kabol/Afghanistan

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B.

Cairo/Egypt

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C.

Khartoum/Sudan

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D.

Timbuktu/Ethiopia

 

Question 6 of 25

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

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A.

Dubai.

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B.

Israel.

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C.

Yemen.

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D.

Iraq.

Question 7 of 25

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

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A.

Oman.

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B.

Kuwait.

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C.

Bahrain.

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D.

Abu Dhabi.

 

Question 8 of 25

Which of the following is true of Saudi Arabia?

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A.

It has about half of all known petroleum reserves.

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B.

Less than one-fifth of the population is less than 15 years old.

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C.

It contains only one of Islam's holy cities.

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D.

Its population growth is exceeding its economic gains.

 

Question 9 of 25

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

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A.

Northern Nigeria

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B.

Bosnia

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C.

Yemen

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D.

Japan

 

Question 10 of 25

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


 

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A.

The overwhelming majority of Egypt's people live within a dozen miles of the Nile.

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B.

The Blue Nile originates in Ethiopia.

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C.

The largest of all Nile River control projects is the Aswan High Dam.

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D.

Egypt's largest city, Cairo, is located on the shore of Lake Nasser in Upper Egypt.

 

Question 11 of 25

Which of the following is not one of the region's cultural hearths?
 

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A.

the Indus Valley

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B.

the Nile Delta

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C.

Mesopotamia

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D.

They are all cultural hearths within the region.

 

Question 12 of 25

The city of Jerusalem came under what country's complete control in 1967?
 

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A.

Lebanon

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B.

Palestine

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C.

Jordan

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D. Israel

Question 13 of 25

Which city is the centrally located capital of Turkey?
 

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A.

Mecca

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B.

Ankara

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C.

Constantinople

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D.

Tehran

Question 14 of 25

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

 

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A.

Resolution of the Cyprus situation.

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B.

Improved treatment of the Kurdish minority.

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C.

Cession of Crete to Greece

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D.

Economic improvements.

 

Question 15 of 25

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

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A.

the Golan Heights

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B.

Gaza

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C.

Lebanon

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D.

the West Bank

 

Question 16 of 25

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

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A.

Alexandria

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B.

Aswan High Dam

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C.

Suez Canal

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D.

Cairo

Question 17 of 25

Which body of water was devastated by Soviet irrigation schemes?

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A.

Black Sea

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B.

Caspian Sea

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C.

Shatt-al-Arab

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D.

Aral Sea

Question 18 of 25

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

 

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A.

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

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B.

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

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C.

Thriving commercial agriculture is found in all three Maghreb states.

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D.

Maghreb countries were all former British colonies.

Question 19 of 25

________ 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.

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A.

Jordan

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B.

Syria
 

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C.

Israel

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D.

Lebanon

Question 20 of 25

Which of the following constitutes the dominant population in the northeast of Kazakhstan?
 

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A.

Uzbeks

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B.

Armenians

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C.

Russians

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D.

Kazakhs

Question 21 of 25

Conflicts related to the African transition zone caused the formation of which new nation?
 

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A.

Southern Morocco

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B.

Lower Egypt

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C.

South Sudan

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D.

Western Sahara

Question 22 of 25

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

 

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A.

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

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B.

The area occupied by Israel had no history of human occupation prior to the founding of the modern state of Israel.

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C.

It was created out of the country of Jordan

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D.

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

 

Question 23 of 25

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

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A.

Bab el Mandeb Strait

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B.

Hormuz Strait

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C.

Shatt-al-Arab

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D.

Gulf of Suez

 

Question 24 of 25

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

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A.

Water is the key to survival in the desert.

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B.

Cities able to control irrigated farming over large hinterlands held power over others.

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C.

Irrigation is the key to the advancement of agriculture.

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D.

Cities on islands will always dominate those on the nearby mainland.

 

Question 25 of 25

Which of the following statements about Israel is false?

 

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A.

In 2005 Israel decided to yield the Gaza Strip to the Palestinian Authority.

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B.

The United Nations gave Jerusalem to the Israelis under the 1947 partition resolution.

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C.

Israel's Security Barrier walls off the West Bank.

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D.

Israel's population is about 7.3 million.