Geography Final Exam Part 2
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- Around what year did Muslim armies begin to conquer most of Southwest Asia?
- 800 AD
- Sheik
- A religion leader of the highest rank and greatest respect
- Russia is nearly _________ the size of the United States
- 1.8 times
- By what other name is the region of Southwest Asia sometimes referred?
- Middle East
- In many ways, this country is still a physical and cultural bridge between Asia and Europe?
- Turkey
- What are the four largest rivers in Russia?
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Ob River
Yenisei River
Lena River
Volga RIver - In what countries are most of the world's Shi'a Muslim concentrated?
- Iran, Southern Iraq, Yemen and Lebanon
- In what year did Israel become a state?
- 1948
- Iran is the world's largest producer of what product?
- pistachios
- Other than the Dardanelles name of the strait that divides Turkey from Asia?
- Bosporus
- The word coffee has its origin in this country?
- Turkey
- This city used to be known as "Paris of the Middle"
- Beirut
- What are the two branches of Islam?
- Sunni and Shi'a
- What has been one of Iran's most prized products for centuries?
- Persian Rugs
- What illegal crop is grown by Afghan farmers?
- opium poppies
- What is the language that many Iranians speak?
- Farsi, an Indo-European language
- What organization was formed to control world oil prices?
- OPEC
- What is the world's deepest fresh water lake?
- Lake Baykal in Russia
- What leader followed Stalin in Russia?
- Nikita Khrushchev
- Russia's largest city is
- Moscow
- Russia's population, which is shrinking, is approximately
- 150,000,000
- Russians are basically ______ and do not express much hope to a better life in the future.
- pessimists
- One of the most popular foods in Russia is
- borscht
- Slightly more than ___ of Russians live below the poverty line
- More than 1/3
- Forty percent of Germany is?
- Forests
- Germans rarely drink tap water but prefer _______, wine and mineral water.
- beer
- Germany's adult literacy rate is _____%
- 99%
- In 2001, Germany ordered the killing of thousands of infected animals and limited the transport of livestock at risk from the disease __________.
- Mad Cow disease
- In area Germany is approximately the size of ___________
- Montana
- Most families live in ________. Single family homes are by no means rare just very __________.
-
Apartments or condominiums
expensive - The Berlin Wall became a symbol of the ________ until late 1989.
-
division of West and East
It now symbolizes freedom and unity - Alcoholism and drug abuse may affect as much as ____ percent of the population.
- 42%
- Formal name for Russia is
- Commonwealth of Independent States
- The German currency is the
- Mark
- The German language does not have a word for
- new
- Largest city in Russia that is north of the Arctic Circle
- St. Persburg
- The population of Germany is ____million.
- 81
- Europe's longest river is the
- Volga River
- The unemployment rate in Germany is currently around ____percent.
- 10%
- This area in Russia gets temperatures below -40 degrees Fahrenheit
- Siberia
- The voting age in Germany is ____
- 16
- What year did the Soviet Union collapse?
- 1991
- While there is no speed limit on sections of the __________ there are strict limits on all other roads.
- Auto Bahn
- The former Soviet Union is organized into how many countries now?
- 15 countries
- What is the Russian word for "openness"
- glasnost
- What is the Russian word for "restructuring"
- perestroika
- Who was the first democratically elected president of Russia?
- Boris Yeltsin
- A determined guerrilla conflict still plagues Russia in what part?
- Chechnya
- The voting age in Russia is ____
- 18 years
- What is the name of the Russian currency
- ruble
- What drug is increasingly popular in the domestic market of Russia
- heroin
- Most of this country's foreign income comes from tobacco:
- Malawi
- Zaire's deposits of this mineral are among the largest in the world
- copper
- The languages of the Niger-Congo Family are also known as:
- Bantu
- What is considered to be the prosperous country in Central Africa?
- Gabon
- This city in South Africa is considered its commercial and financial capital.
- Johannesburg
- Guerrilla fighters were partly responsible for the independence of this country?
- Zimbabwe
- This volcanic island was once home to the now extinct dodo bird.
- Mauritius
- The land area of the United States fits into the land area of Africa:
- Sahara Desert
- Africa has ___ independent countries.
- more than 50
- This is one of the world's busiest waterways.
- Bosphorous
- Why is irrigation from the Nile of utmost importance to Egypt?
- Provides fertile land for agriculture
- The largest coffee crop in Africa comes from what country?
- Cote d'Ivoire
- Which of these countries was not founded as settlements for free slaves?
- Liberia and Sierra Leone were founded as settlements for freed slaves
- Which of these is one of the three primary belief systems found in West Africa?
- Three primary belief systems are Muslims, Christianity and Animism
- What are the reasons for Cameroon's relative prosperity?
- Because most people have small farms and receive government loans and up to date information on farming technology
- Why must all Central African countries import food despite the regions many fertile farmlands?
- Food production has not kept up with Central Africa's rising population.
- What small peninsula juts southward into the Black Sea
- Kamchatka Peninsula
- Africa is composed mostly of _______
- grassland
- Busiest port of Russia on the Black Sea is
- Port Novorossiysk
- This country was formerly known as the British colony of Northern Rhodesia.
- Zimbabwe
- What type of government did Angola choose after it became and independent nation in 1975?
- Communist
- What is the largest most populous country in Central Africa?
- Zaire
- For the past thirty years, this country has been a war zone.
- Angola
- What are the major river systems of Southern Africa?
- Orange and Zambezi
- What two European powers vied for power in South Africa?
- The Boers and the British
- In what country are the people referred to as "white Russians?"
- Belarus
- What is the best known South Africa group that fought against racial discrimination?
- African National Congress
- What is the word for "Night of Broken Glass?"
- Kristallnacht
- What is the basis for South Africa's wealth?
- minerals
- What percentage of Africa's industrial firms are located in South Africa?
- more than 50%
- This country was once called German Southwest Africa?
- Namibia
- German conglomerate of eight chemical companies during WWII
- IG Farben
- Which of the Southern African countries is landlocked?
- Botswana
- This country is becoming one of Africa's success stories
- Botswana
- One of this nation's largest ports is called Beira.
- Mozambique
- Concentration camp in Upper Silesia, Poland
- Auchwitz-Birkenau
- Europeans own nearly half the land of this southern Africa country.
- South Africa
- The economy of this country revolves around tourism, fishing, farming and the export of perfumes, spices and copra.
- Comoros
- This nation is made up of 92 islands in the Indian Ocean.
- Seychelles
- The Sahara is ____ square miles in area.
- 3,500,000 square miles
- Zaire would be closest to the:
- Equator
- Jews were starved, brutalized, and killed during these marches
- Death marches
- Africa's largest country in land area.
- Sudan
- Africa's most populous country
- Nigeria
- Fuehrer and Riech Chancellor of Germany
- Hitler
- Approximately how many ethnic groups does Nigeria have?
- 4 main ethnic groups and home to more than 200 ethnic groups.
- Dar es Salaam is the greatest city and major port of this country.
- Tanzania
- Senegal shares one of the most unusual boundaries in the world with this country.
- Gambia
- Who organized the transportation of Jews to the camps?
- Eichmann
- The largest lake in Africa
- Lake Victoria
- The official language of Kenya and Tanzania
- Swahili
- This country has one third of the world's bauxite supply.
- Guinea
- This country is Africa's favorite tourist site.
- South Africa
- This West African country was formerly a German colony.
- Togo
- Who created the Gestapo and was commander of the German Luftwaffe?
- Goering
- Timbutktu, the ancient trading city is in what West African country?
- Mali
- What is one of the staple, or main foods of West Africa?
- root crops such as yams and cassava
- Who planned and led the anti-Jewish policies of the Nazis
- Reinhard Heydrich
- Hundreds of synagogues and Jewish owned stores were burned and looted. Many Jews beaten, killed and sent to gas chambers
- Night of Glass
- Who was called the Angel of Death?
- Dr. Jose Mengele
- Hundres of synagogues and Jewish owned stores were burned and looted. Many Jews beaten, killed and sent to camps
- Night of Glass
- Meeting held in Germany January 20, 1942 about Final Solution
- Wannsee Conference
- Prejudice against and fear of Jews.
- anti Semitism
- Sanskrit name for a hooked cross
- Swastika
- Commercial name for hydrogen cyanide gas
- Zyklon B
- Who organized the Final Solution
- Heydrich
- These were created in the poor sections of cities. Surrounded by barbed wire and Jews had to live there.
- Ghettos
- Who was Plato?
-
First Greek Philosopher
Most famous work is the Republic
Socrates was his teacher - Who was Socrates?
- Early philosopher
- The Olympic Games
- Early competitions held every four years originally in Greece in 776 BC
- Who is Hippocrates
- Father of Medicine
- Who is Leonardo da Vinci
-
Italian artist in the late 1400s
Mona Lisa was his most famous work - Who was Michelangelo?
- Famous artist who painted the Sistine Chapel
- Who was Isaac Newton
- English scientist/mathematician who developed the Law of Gravity
- Who was Martin Luther?
- Martin Luther was an English rebel who fought against the Reformation of the Church
- What was the Battle of Marathon?
- 490 BC, the Battle of Marathon was between Persia and Greece
- What is Pax Romana
- the long period of peace enforced on states in the Roman Empire
- Who was Ptolemy
- One of the most influential Greek astronomers and geographers of his time
- What were the Crusades?
- The Crusades were a series of military campaigns during the time of Medieval England against the Muslims of the Middle East
- What was the Renaissance
- Renaissance means rebirth. This period saw a rebirth in knowledge. ... Giovanni Palestrina was one the Renaissance period's most important composers
- Who was Rembrandt?
- A Dutch artist of the 1400s whose most famous painting was "Night Watch."
- Who was Copernicus?
- The founder of modern astronomy
- Who was Galileo?
- Italian physicist and astronomer who made fundamental contributions to the science
- What were the Holy Inquisitions?
- A religious court by the Catholic church to find and punish those who were nonbelievers
- Who was Alfred Nobel?
- Swedish inventor of dynamite who set up the Nobel Prize award for outstanding contributions to chemistry or physics or physiology and medicine or literature or economics or peace
- Magna Carta
- The Great Charter of English liberty granted by King John and the cornerstone for freedom and the basis for the US Constitution
- More than _____ people have died of AIDS
- 24 million
- ______ is the worst infectious catastrophe since bubonic plague
- HIV/AIDS
- Today there are _______ million people living with AIDS
- 40
- By 2010, it is estimated there will be 40 million AIDS _____________ worldwide
- orphans
- Since 1988, the rate of infection of AIDS has increased by ________ percent in Russia
- 1500%
- ________ of AIDS transmission is through intraveneous drugs
- 90%
- _________ has more cases of HIV/AIDS than any other nation in the world except Africa
- India
- The country with the highest numbers of HIV/AIDS in the world is ______
- Africa
-
In India, HIV/AIDS is primarily transmitted through
________ - unsafe sex
- If the rate of infection remains the same, by 2010 more than _______ million people will have been infected with HIV/AIDS
- 100
- Major religion in Germany and percentage
- 38 percent of the German population was affiliated with the established Protestant (Evangelical) Church
- Where do the Catholics and Protestants live in Germany?
-
Catholics live in south and west
Protestants live in north and east - After World War I, Germany was made to pay huge __________, admit guilt for the war and cede about _______ of its territory.
-
33 billion dollars
10% of German territory