GEOG 352 – World Regional Geography
Exam 2 Study Guide
The eventual test will be made up of 70-80 PowerPoint identification, multiple choice, true/false,
matching, and map questions. Not all of the questions below will end up on the final version of
the exam.
Power Point Identification
Match images from Power Point slides to the features created by tectonic activity that they
represent.
Match images from Power Point slides to the types of natural vegetation/ecosystems that they
represent.
Match images from Power Point slides to the holy places (official or otherwise) of Christianity,
Islam, and Judaism that they represent.
Multiple Choice, True/false, Matching, and Map
 Be able to identify major aspects of the Nile Valley Civilization
 Match the tectonic processes below with the corresponding North African/Southwest Asian
landforms they created.
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block faulting
rifting
transform fault/shear boundary
warping and folding
 Be familiar with the meanings of Arabic terms that are applied to regions, landforms, and
ecosystems.
 Be able to answer questions about the effects of the Aswan High Dam
 Be familiar with some of the aspects of the struggle between Islam and Western Civilization.
 Be able to answer questions about the "Five Pillars of the Faith" of Islam.
 Be able to answer questions concerning the struggle between Arabs and Jews in the "Holy
Land."
 Be able to answer questions about the great powers that have been involved in the shatterbelt
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that is the “Holy Land.”
 Be familiar with the distinguishing characteristics and locations of the holy sites of Judaism,
Christianity, and Islam
 Be familiar with the nature and history of Islam.
 Be familiar with the characteristics and locations of Jewish and Christian groups in North
Africa/Southwest Asia.
 Be able to distinguish the locations of the major holy places in the Old City of Jerusalem.
 Be able to identify the following North African/Southwest Asian features on a map:
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Fertile Crescent
Maghreb
Mesopotamia
Nile Valley
Sahel
 Be able to answer questions about the primary domesticated mind altering substance of North
Africa/Southwest Asia.
 Be able to answer questions about the plants and animals from the Fertile Crescent
agricultural hearth.
 Be able to answer questions about Mesopotamian Civilization.
 Be able to match North African/Southwest Asian biomes with their corresponding locations
on a map.
 Match the major Iraqi factions to the portions of Iraq they control.
 Be able to identify the various types of desert features found in North Africa/Southwest Asia.
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 At the time of the outbreak of civil war in Lebanon, ________ were the largest faction in that
country.
 Which one of the following root crops was not domesticated in the Fertile Crescent?
 Can raw opium be harvested using machines?
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 Has the 2003 invasion of Afghanistan finally ended opium production there?
 Feta cheese is made using the milk from ________.
 Which camel is double humped, shaggy, and found in the cold deserts of Central Asia?
 Which animal was revered as a fertility symbol in the Neolithic settlement of Catal Huyuk?
 Were god/deity figures always predominantly male?
 What technological innovation caused farming to grow to such a scale that farmers were
forced to come down out of the Fertile Crescent and into Mesopotamia?
 Did the ancient Mesopotamians build primarily with stone like the Egyptians?
 Sanskrit, the “Epic of Gilgamesh,” and Hammurabi’s Code all originated in ________.
 Hammurabi’s Code is the earliest example of ________ in Western Civilization.
 Did the pharos have elaborate structures and temples built at their burial sites in the Valley of
the Kings?
 Was the Nile Valley ethnically and racially diverse?
 Which African culture conquered Egypt and restored many of its traditions, but only ruled
over it for 72 years?
 Did Nubian culture leave behind any significant monuments?
 Match the periods of Jewish history below with the great powers that were involved in each.
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Conquest of Israel in 722 BCE and the ten “Lost Tribes”
Destruction of Jerusalem in 586 BCE and the “Captivity of Judah”
Maccabean victory of 165 BCE and the “Miracle of the Lights”
Destruction of Herod’s Gilded Temple in CE 70 and the Jewish Diaspora
 Until 1967, Jews called the Western Wall the ________.
 What Biblical heroine ties Ethiopian and Israeli Jews together?
 What significant religious artifact supposedly was saved by the Ethiopian Jews and is
maintained and protected by Ethiopian Christians?
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 Have Christians in Iraq fared better since our invasion of that country?
 Which language was the language used by Jesus and his followers and is today used by the
Assyrian Church of the East in it religious services?
 Which church was responsible for spreading Christianity to China (as evidenced by the
discovery of Nestorian crosses) but was greatly reduced by Mongol and Arab invasions?
 Match the holy places below to their corresponding descriptions or characteristics.
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A grotto deep beneath a church in a town south of Jerusalem
A section of the foundation of the Temple Mount left by the Romans that was never
covered by subsequent construction
A structure housing the “official” sites of the execution, burial, and supposed resurrection
of Jesus of Nazareth
An octagonal structure housing a stone associated with Muhammad’s ascension into
Heaven
The “unofficial” site of the execution, burial, and supposed resurrection of Jesus of
Nazareth that includes a remarkable skull-shaped rock outcrop
 Is Christmas celebrated in Palestinian-controlled Bethlehem?
 How many Stations of the Cross are there?
 What celestial object carries the souls of Muslim martyrs to Paradise?
 What color is most closely associated with Islam?
 How many times a day is the call to prayer supposed to be observed?
 Was Islam spread to Indonesia by conquering armies?
 The Ashura rites honor the martyrdom of ________.
 Match the Islamic holy places below with the figures, events, and qualities they are
associated with.
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Birthplace of the Prophet Muhammed, site of his revelation, and home of the Kab’ah
Burial place of Ali (father of Hussein) and the most auspicious place for Shi’ites to be
buried
The bloody martyrdom of Hussein in CE 680
Where the Koran was transcribed, where the first mosque was built, and where
Muhammed is buried
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 Which of the following was not cited as a reason for the decline of the Islamic Arab Empire?
 Theodore Herzl’s publication of “The Jewish State” and the First Zionist Congress occurred
in the ________ century.
 In 1946, were Jews the majority of the population in all of the areas of Palestine now within
the official boundaries of Israel (excluding the Occupied Territories)?
 The first Israeli Occupied Territory returned in its entirety to an Arab neighbor was
________.
 All Jewish settlements were removed from ________ in 2005.
 Israeli settlements – both legal and illegal – in the West Bank are typically situated where?
 Which of the following countries did not take part in the dismemberment of the abortive
Kurdistan in the 1920s?
 Are Iraqi Kurds politically united?
 What weapon of mass destruction (WMD) did Saddam Hussein use against the Kurds of
Halabja on March 16, 1988?
 The purpose of Lebanon’s “Cedar Revolution” was to convince the occupying forces of
________ to leave.
 Is Israel in an earthquake-free zone?
 The lowest spot on the surface of the earth is ________.
 Have earthquakes at the North Anatolian Fault been moving eastward during the twentieth
century?
 Mediterranean climates are dry in summer and savanna climates are dry in winter because
they are influenced by the ________ during those times.
 Are deserts always devoid of plant life?
 If irrigated desert soils are not flushed occasionally, ________ will build up, making them
useless for farming.
 Why did Saddam Hussein drain the Mesopotamian marshlands?
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 Did the Persian Gulf once extend much farther inland into Iraq than it does today?
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