WG Unit 6 Test
Multiple Choice
Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
c. Anatolian
1. What does the name Mesopotamia mean?
a. “land of many animals”
d. Mediterranean
b. “fertile land”
9. Runoff from infrequent rainstorms creates
c. “land of first civilizations”
____________________ , streambeds that remain
d. “land between two rivers”
dry until a heavy rain.
a. wadis
2. Deserts cover almost ____________________ of
b. ergs
North Africa, Southwest Asia, and Central Asia.
a. 5 percent
c. regs
b. 10 percent
d. hamada
c. 50 percent
d. 70 percent
Landforms and Tectonic Activity
3. Which mountain range extends across Morocco and
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Algeria?
a. Taurus Mountains
b. Atlas Mountains
c. Zagros Mountains
d. Caucasus Mountains
The ________________ began to dry up when the
Soviet Union diverted water for irrigation from the
rivers flowing into the sea.
a. Aral Sea
b. Dead Sea
c. Caspian Sea
d. Red Sea
The Tigris and Euphrates Rivers help irrigate
a. Iraq, Iran, and Afghanistan.
b. Iraq, Syria, and Jordan.
c. Turkey, Syria, and Iraq.
d. Turkey, Syria, and Jordan.
A ____________________ climate receives an
average of 10 inches (25 cm) of rain or less per year.
a. steppe
b. highland
c. desert
d. Mediterranean
A place in the desert where underground water
surfaces is called
a. an oasis.
b. a reg.
c. a wadi.
d. a hamada.
The Gulf of Suez and the Gulf of Aqaba flank the
____________________ Peninsula.
a. Arabian
b. Sinai
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According to the map above, the African Plate is
moving _________________ the Arabian Plate and
_________________ Anatolian Plate.
a. away from; towards
b. towards; away from
c. towards; towards
d. away from; away from
11. The __________ is located at the mouth of the
Jordan River.
a. Red Sea
b. Caspian Sea
c. Dead Sea
d. Black Sea
12. The ___________ is the largest inland body of water
on Earth.
a. Black Sea
b. Caspian Sea
c. Aral Sea
d. Dead Sea
13. The Aswan High Dam provides water for agriculture
and hydroelectric power in
a. Jordan.
b. Syria.
c. Sudan.
d. Egypt.
22. The Ottoman Empire was centered in present-day
14. The Sahara covers most of
a. Anatolia.
b. Central Asia.
c. North Africa.
d. the Arabian Peninsula.
15. The Pontic and Taurus Mountains are located in
a. Turkey.
b. Morocco.
c. Iran.
d. Afghanistan.
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16. ___________ was the primary gateway for Arabs
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migrating in to North Africa.
a. Algeria
b. Tunisia
c. Egypt
d. Libya
The independent state of Israel was founded
a. in 1967.
b. in 1800.
c. in 1932.
d. in 1948.
More than 90 percent of Egypt’s people live
a. in cities built at large oases.
b. along the border with Libya.
c. in the Nile Delta region.
d. on the Mediterranean coast.
______________ are the dominant sects of Islam in
most states on the Arabian Peninsula.
a. Sunni and Shia.
b. Shia and Wahhabi..
c. Ibadhism and Wahhabi.
d. Sunni and Ibadhism.
The _______________ in the early 1900s led to
increased wealth, modernization, and immigration
in many Arab countries on the Arabian Peninsula.
a. increase in foreign aid
b. creation of a regional trading bloc
c. lifting of strict shari’ah laws
d. discovery of oil
Political boundaries that often follow straight lines
and do not account for natural or cultural features are
known as
a. geometric boundaries.
b. natural boundaries.
c. national boundaries.
d. independent boundaries.
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__________________ and lasted for more than 600
years.
a. Iran
b. Turkey
c. Egypt
d. Iraq
Egypt’s primate city is
a. Alexandria.
b. Cairo.
c. Luxor.
d. Tripoli.
Which three major religions were founded in the
eastern Mediterranean subregion?
a. Judaism, Christianity, Islam
b. Judaism, Hinduism, Islam
c. Hinduism, Buddhism, Christianity
d. Buddhism, Sikhism, Hinduism
All three major religions that began in the region
share a belief in
a. reincarnation.
b. karma.
c. polytheism.
d. monotheism.
Parts of Central Asia prospered from the
____________, a trade route connecting China to
the Mediterranean Sea.
a. Fertile Crescent
b. Khyber Pass
c. Silk Road
d. Suez Canal
The civilization in the region of Mesopotamia that
established year-round farming and cuneiform
writing was the
a. Sumerians.
b. Phoenicians.
c. Persians.
d. Ottomans.
Armenia is a(n) ____________, a territory that is
culturally or ethnically different from surrounding
larger cultures.
a. exclave
b. culture hearth
c. dependency
d. enclave
Ethnic Groups in the Eastern Mediterranean
32. Which of the following statements about the impact
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Based on the graphs above, which of the following
countries does not have an ethnic Armenian
population?
a. Israel
b. Syria
c. Jordan
d. Lebanon
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According to the graphs above, which country has
the highest percentage of Arabs in its population?
a. Jordan
b. Syria
c. Lebanon
d. Israel
31. Overfishing and pollution have decreased fish
catches in the
a. Red Sea.
b. Black Sea.
c. Caspian Sea.
d. Aral Sea.
38.
of the Aswān High Dam is TRUE?
a. Irrigation was reduced after the dam was built.
b. The land retains salt because floodwaters no
longer cleanse the soil.
c. Parasite-related diseases downriver decreased
after the dam was built.
d. Rich alluvial soil is now trapped by the dam,
reducing the need for expensive fertilizers.
Limited freshwater resources in North Africa,
Southwest Asia, and Central Asia have forced
countries to use the process of
a. reservoirs.
b. aqueducts.
c. desalination.
d. aquifers.
What are petrochemicals?
a. products derived from oil and natural gas
b. products used to extinguish oil well fires
c. chemicals leaked during weapons testing
d. chemicals used to modify petroleum products
The ______________ allows ships to pass from the
Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea.
a. Suez Canal
b. Bosporus
c. Strait of Tiran
d. Strait of Hormuz
Today, the ancient ____________________ is the
route of a modern communications superhighway.
a. road to Makkah
b. Silk Road
c. Nile River Valley
d. Persian Empire
Many of Central Asia’s environmental problems
were caused by
a. farmers following ancient techniques.
b. extremist Muslim groups.
c. global warming.
d. the Soviet Union.
The major rivers of the region of North Africa,
Southwest Asia, and Central Asia are the
a. Nile, Tigris, Euphrates, Jordan, Amu Dar’ya,
and Syr Dar’ya.
b. Tigris, Euphrates, Indus, Tarim, Amu Dar’ya,
and Syr Dar’ya.
c. Nile, Indus, Jordan, Huang He, Chang Jiang,
and Ganges.
d. Amu Dar’ya, Syr Dar’ya, Ganges, Brahmaputra,
Huang He, and Chang Jiang.
39. ________________ countries such as Afghanistan
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and Tajikistan do not have access to the sea for
transportation and trade.
a. Arable
b. War-torn
c. Landlocked
d. Oil-producing
The region’s heavy dependence on oil has led to
a. decreasing oil and natural gas exports to the
United States.
b. a larger membership in OPEC.
c. wide disparities between the oil-rich and the
oil-poor countries.
d. the development of a middle class in all
countries.
Which of the following waterways is human made?
a. Straight of Hormuz
b. Suez Canal
c. Straight of Tiran
d. Nile River
The Transport Corridor Europe-Caucasus-Asia
(TRACECA) extends from __________ to
___________ and was designed to provide
increased regional cooperation.
a. Moldova, Mongolia
b. Turkey, China
c. Afghanistan, Mongolia
d. Belarus, Kazakhstan
Why do the OPEC member countries have
considerable influence in world affairs?
a. They have strong military power.
b. They control most of the world’s wealth.
c. They control a large amount of the world’s oil.
d. They represent most of the world’s population.
An underground layer of porous rock, gravel, or
sand that contains water is called
a. an aquifer.
b. a delta.
c. an estuary.
d. groundwater.
What destroyed the fishing industry in the Aral Sea?
a. oil slicks
b. diversion of water from feeder rivers
c. overfishing
d. acid rain