Geography Final Freshman

What is a measure of wealth and sub Sahara Africa?

Cattle

Home to ancient civilizations of kingdoms of Kush, Kerma, Novato’s, and Alodia which flourished along the Nile

Sudan

What did Nelson Mandela protest against

Segregation

What has left many people hungry in malnourished hurt that economy and lead to large amounts of death

War

One of the five major basins in Africa

Chad ,Congo, Sudan, kalahari, el diof

Why does Africa have some tropical climate zones?

Location to equator

Which of the following are the three African kingdoms?

Ghana, Songhai, Mali

What happened first: Mali empire established or vasca da gama sails around the tip of Africa

Mali empire established

four tectonic plates that shaped the landscape of North Africa

Arabian

Steep cliffs are slope between a higher and lower land surface

escarpment

Which of the following is North Africa‘s main exports?

Oil and natural gas

How were the boundary lines in Africa established?

Based on straight lines

Which of the following ancient African kingdoms lived on the Nile

Kush

What happened first: Atlantic slave trade begins or civilization begins in Egypt

Civilization begins in Egypt

Which of the following was not one of the reasons Europeans invaded Africa during the 19th century

Take back what was there?

Three trade system that includes slaves, guns, and raw material

Triangle trade

The top two spoken languages in Africa

Arabic in Swahili

Deserts in Africa mainly

Dry

People indigenous to North Africa

Bebers

Which event happened first: Kushites conquered Egypt or Mali Empire ends

Kushites conquered Egypt

Second largest country in Africa

Congo

Which African lake is shrinking

Chad

Policies of strict separation of the race is adapt in South Africa in the 1940s

Apartheid

Desert in a large semi arid sand Savanna in southern Africa

Kalahari

Widely accepted reason for why Africa faces a large HIV/ AIDS problem

Poverty

How much of Africa’s independent at this time?

100%

In 1947 Britain divided the subcontinent into two countries. What are they?

India and Pakistan

About 1/3 of Chinese workers are employed in ———— the largest segment of the economy

Agriculture

Japan economy is

Mixed

What is the role of industry in Japan’s economy?

Big role that focuses on export of manufactured goods

In general areas along China coast

Are more agriculture

What is the main religion in India?

Hinduism

India is growing middle classes result of

Foreign investments in deregulation of industries

Ethnic group of more than 90% of China’s population

Han

China is the worlds largest producer of

Rice

The only country with a larger population than India is

China

How did the occupation of Japan by the United States after World War II impact Japan?

Japan helped to form a democracy and rebuild economy

Where does most of China’s population live?

1/6 of land

The shogunate is

A feudal society

The flooding of the —————has killed hundreds of thousands of people over the years earning the nickname China sorrow

Huang he

What led to the end of Japan’s isolation in the mid-1800s

Arrangement to open Japan’s port to US

In ideology that emphasize harmony with nature and simple living

Daoism

The volcanoes and earthquakes of Japan are evidence of

It being in the ring of fire

— of the Japanese population belongs to the same ethnic group

99%

Which river flows mainly through Pakistan empties into the Arabian Sea

Indus

Which countries had A significant impact on Japan’s culture

Korea and China

The —— hurt the literacy rates in China

Cultural revolution

During World War I Japan profited by ———- allied countries

Exporting to

Who founded the Chinese philosopher of Daoism

Laozi

Where does most of Japan populating live

Coastal lowlands

Today, japan exports more goods than imports in economic terms Japan has

Trade surplus

India has—— Largest population

2nd

Which resources are important Japanese economy

Ones from the sea

Which of the following physical make India a subcontinent

Himalayas, Hindu Kush, Karakoram

What is one important way in which the Japanese government protects local industries from foreign competition?

Levying taxes on imported goods

The theory of practice of merchants or trading pursuits m. Ex: British East India Company

Mercantilism

What is the smallest micro state in Europe?

Vatican City

The United Kingdom left the EU process known as

Brexit

What is the name of the nuclear disaster in Soviet Ukraine?

Chernobyl

What is Lasting legacy of the Chernobyl incident

Increase nuclear safety and re evaluated nuclear programs

How many countries are currently in the EU

27

What was one of the environmental physical geography consequences of the Chernobyl disaster?

High-level of radioactive contamination spread far out from the area

Which of the following is taken into account on calculating human development index

Life expectancy

What is the largest micro state in Europe?

Andorra

The three Scandinavian countries

Sweden, Norway, Denmark

What are the benefits of being an EU member?

Free trade, open-travel, similar currency

What are the five Nordic countries?

Finland, Norway, Denmark, Iceland, Sweden

An example of a stateless nation

Palestinians

Much of Northeast experiences what type of climate?

Arid or semi arid

The north east country Are major players in this organization that keeps oil prices high

OPEC

Why is the Aral Sea shrinking

Irrigation

Which country agreed with in which country rejected the 1947 union plan to divide Palestine into Jewish Arab state

Jews accepted in Arabs rejected

True or false the silk road was an important travel route between Egypt and Europe

False

Describe central Asia’s geography

Landlocked

What type of climate does the coastal areas versus inland areas of eastern Mediterranean region?

Inland= semi arid and arid coastal=Mediterranean

What development in Mesopotamia and led to the growth of civilization and villages?

Agriculture

Tragic, narrow waterway between two larger bodies of water

Choke point

How has Bahrain diversify the economy?

banking

The Islamic region has two main branches they are? (They don’t get along)

Sunni and Shia

Primary languages of eastern Mediterranean region

Arabic

Where are most of the Middle East oil reserves?

Persian Gulf

What language do most people in Central Asia speak

Turkic

The goal of Agab connects the Eastern Mediterranean nation with the Red Sea and what ocean

Indian

The tallest building in the world

Burj Khalifa

The major resources in the north east

Oil and natural gas

What is the fault line that runs across most of Turkey?

North Anatolian

The major resources in the Arabian peninsula

Oil and freshwater

What two countries in central Asia have major Christian populations

Georgia and Armenia

What is the largest inland body of water?

Captain sea

In elongated little land created by the separation of tectonic plates

Rift valley

The ———— industry provides wealth to most countries in the Arabian peninsula

Petroleum

Where do most people live in the Arabian Peninsula?

On the coast

What is the average literacy rate and most central Asian countries?

98%

Islamic gurerilla fighters

Mujahideen