Unit 5 Quiz(Chap 15,16,17)

What is Africa’s longest mountain range?

Atlas Mountains

What are the Ahaggar Mountains made of

Black volcanic landforms and pink organic massif

What percentage of Egypt’s populations lives along the Nile River

more than 90%

What dam has been built to control the Nile’s flooding

Aswan High Dam

What is the largest hot desert in the world?

Sahara Desert

Why was the Nile River valley so fertile?

Annual floods

Who brought the Muslim religion to North Africa?

Arab rule

What empire ruled much of North Africa for about 400 years?

Ottoman Empire

Revolts against oppressive, nondemocratic governments in Egypt, Libya, and Tunisia became known as____

Arab Spring

Who were the indigenous people for North Africa before the Arab invasions?

The Berbers

What sea is located on the lowest point on Earth’s land surface?

Dead Sea

What River flows through all of the countries in the Eastern Mediterranean?

Jordan River

What crops are grown along the Jordan River?

oranges, bananas,beets and other vegetables

What trees are important in the region? Why are they rare today?

Cedar trees- most have been cut down.

What natural resources have been found below of the waters of the Mediterranean Sea in the region?

large oil and gas reserves

What city is one of the oldest continuously-settled urban centers in the world?

Damascus

What is the oldest religion in the region?

Judaism

What religion was born out of Judaism and spread throughout the Mediterranean region?

Christianity

In what city did Islam originate? What was the prophet that began the religion?

Makkah,Muhammed

The Palestinian people have become a stateless nation. What does that mean?

an ethnic group without a formal country

What has caused the numerous mountain ranges in the region?

tectonic plates converging

What country has over a dozen volcanoes within its borders

Turkey

What is the waterway that connects the Aegean Sea dn the Black Sea?

Turkish straits

What two rivers have been important since ancient times?

Tigris and Euphrates

Why is Turkey’s geographic location an asset?

In 2006, a pipeline that carries oil from an oil field in the Caspian Sea to the Mediterranean opened.

What 4 great civilizations arose in the Northeast region?

Babylonian, Persian, Sumer, and Ottoman

The Persians engineered qanata. What is a qanat and what is its benefit?

An underground canal first built by ancient Persians. They reduced the evaporation of water as it flowed from mountains to farmlands.

What country has experienced multiple wars, including two against the United States?

Iraq

What are 4 major ethnic groups in the region?

Turks, Iranians, Arabs, and Kurds

Which of the four ethnic groups is considered a stateless nation?

Kurds