Globalization and Diversity, 5e (Rowntree et al.)
Chapter 7 Southwest Asia and North Africa
1) Which of the following resources presents the greatest challenge for survival in Southwest
Asia and North Africa?
A) petroleum
B) food
C) water
D) iron
E) human resources
2) By what name is the region of Southeast Asia and North Africa most commonly known?
A) the Middle East
B) the Far East
C) the Holy Land
D) the Levant
E) the Maghreb
3) What is the chief problem associated with the use of groundwater in Southwest Asia and
North Africa?
A) Groundwater is highly polluted by agricultural chemical runoff.
B) Groundwater is being depleted faster than it can be replaced, so it is inherently unsustainable.
C) Groundwater in this region is often contaminated with crude oil.
D) Drilling wells is very expensive.
E) all of the above
4) What mountain range northeast of Beirut is now part of the UNESCO Biosphere Reserve?
A) the Mount Lebanon Range
B) the Atlas Mountains
C) the Zagros Mountains
D) the Ahaggar Highlands
E) the Yemen Highlands
5) The most extensive alluvial lowlands in Southwest Asia are found in
A) Lebanon
B) Turkey
C) Iran
D) Egypt
E) Iraq
6) Which country does NOT have a Mediterranean-type climate?
A) Lebanon
B) Turkey
C) Morocco
D) Egypt
E) Algeria
7) Which country of Southwest Asia and North Africa has made efforts to preserve its famed
“cedars” forestlands in recent years?
A) Libya
B) Lebanon
C) Turkey
D) Iran
E) Iraq
8) Which animal is most to blame for the loss of forests in Southwest Asia and North Africa?
A) camels
B) horses
C) goats
D) cows
E) llamas
9) In which country of Southwest Asia and North Africa is the Aswan High Dam located?
A) Israel
B) Saudi Arabia
C) Iran
D) Morocco
E) Egypt
10) What countries comprise the Maghreb of Southwest Asia/North Africa?
A) Algeria, Libya, Egypt
B) Libya, Egypt, Tunisia
C) Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia
D) Tunisia, Libya, Egypt
E) Western Sahara, Algeria, Libya
11) By what name is the large peninsula of Turkey, located wholly in Asia, known?
A) Maghreb
B) Levant
C) Middle East
D) Anatolia
E) Persia
12) By what name is the eastern Mediterranean region of Southwest Asia and North Africa
known?
A) the Levant
B) Anatolia
C) the Maghreb
D) Middle East
E) Persia
13) Deforestation in the region was most caused by
A) massive shipbuilding by the colonial powers.
B) construction of cities.
C) the use of wood for fuel.
D) browsing by sheep and goats.
E) warming climates.
14) Which country of Southwest Asia and North Africa is most likely to experience earthquakes?
A) Tunisia
B) Libya
C) Saudi Arabia
D) Iraq
E) Turkey
15) Which of the following is NOT one of the environmental problems facing North
Africa/Southwest Asia?
A) deforestation
B) hurricanes
C) overgrazing
D) salinization
E) water shortages
16) In which country of Southwest Asia and North Africa is the delta of the Nile River located?
A) Sudan
B) Egypt
C) Libya
D) Algeria
E) Tunisia
17) Iran’s ability to exert control over this body of water that plays a major strategic role in the
shipment of oil is a major concern to the United States and Europe.
A) Strait of Gibraltar
B) Straits of Hormuz
C) Suez Canal
D) Dardanelles
E) Bosporus Strait
18) Why is the island of Socotra, off the southeast coast of Yemen, considered unique?
A) It is one of the largest islands in the world.
B) It is one of the smallest islands containing permanent habitation.
C) It contains one of the largest untouched tropical forest preserves in the world.
D) It possesses a unique biological habitat, containing hundreds of plant species found nowhere
else on Earth.
E) It has the lowest elevation of any place on the Earth.
19) What is the dominant factor in the location of the population settlements in North Africa and
Southwest Asia?
A) water
B) rugged terrain
C) temperatures
D) oil
E) government policies
20) What happens in domestication?
A) Plants are purposefully selected and bred for their desirable characteristics.
B) Animals are purposefully selected and bred for their desirable characteristics.
C) Plants and animals are genetically engineered for their desirable characteristics.
D) Plants and animals are purposefully selected and bred for their desirable characteristics.
E) Plants and animals are purposefully selected and cloned for their desirable characteristics.
21) The Jebel Ali desalination plant is located in what country?
A) Saudi Arabia
B) Israel
C) the United Arab Emirates
D) Iran
E) Qatar
22) What type of subsistence agriculture depends on the seasonal movement of livestock for their
livelihood?
A) ranching
B) pastoral nomadism
C) plantation agriculture
D) shifting cultivation
E) slash–and–burn
23) Which two bodies of water mark the traditional boundaries of Mesopotamia?
A) Black Sea and Mediterranean Sea
B) Blue Nile and White Nile
C) Mediterranean Sea and Red Sea
D) Red Sea and Persian Gulf
E) Tigris River and Euphrates River
24) In which contemporary country of Southwest Asia and North Africa is Mesopotamia
located?
A) Iraq
B) Iran
C) Syria
D) Turkey
E) Lebanon
25) What is “dryland” agriculture?
A) agriculture in dry areas, made possible by irrigation
B) agriculture that depends largely on seasonal precipitation to support farming
C) agriculture that relies on special, hybridized crops that require almost no water
D) agriculture that occurs on oases in land that is otherwise desert
E) agriculture that occurs in desert lands, inside a greenhouse with a controlled environment
26) What is a medina?
A) the temporary settlements of families engaged in pastoral nomadism in Southwest Asia and
North Africa
B) the name for capital city in Southwest Asia and North Africa
C) a mound built on the outskirts of Islamic cities in Southwest Asia and North Africa; it is a
burial ground
D) the walled urban core of an Islamic city; it is dominated by a central mosque
E) the erosional materials left behind in Southwest Asia and North Africa after ancient lakes and
rivers dried up
27) Why do most people migrate within and emigrate from Southwest Asia and North Africa?
A) to take advantage of job opportunities
B) to escape environmental disasters
C) to escape political conflict
D) to escape ethnic tensions
E) to take advantage of educational opportunities
28) In which country of Southwest Asia and North Africa do foreigners make up the majority of
the working population?
A) Morocco
B) Libya
C) Egypt
D) the United Arab Emirates
E) Turkey
29) What is the most popular destination for Algerians and Moroccans migrating to Europe?
A) Germany
B) France
C) Spain
D) Italy
E) Greece
30) What two countries provide the gateway to Europe for Syrians fleeing that nation’s civil
way?
A) Germany and Hungary
B) France and Switzerland
C) Spain and Portugal
D) Italy and Albania
E) Greece and Libya
31) Using the graphic below, which country is NOT one of the top five sources of migrant
workers to Saudi Arabia?
A) Philippines
B) India
C) Syria
D) Yemen
E) Egypt
32) What is unique about the population of the United Arab Emirates?
A) Unlike most of the region’s populations, the UAE has a large population of people over 80
years of age.
B) Because of polygamy the population skews heavily female.
C) It has the greatest number of those 14-and-under years of age.
D) It skews heavily male because of the large number of migrant laborers in the country.
E) Very young males greatly outnumber very young females because of the preference for male
children.
33) The initial European destination of those traveling the so-called Libyan Highway is
A) Germany.
B) France.
C) Italy.
D) Spain.
E) the United Kingdom.
34) Refugees from what country dominate the recent migrant flow on the Libyan Highway?
A) Nigeria
B) Syria
C) Somalia
D) Mali
E) Libya
35) Which of the following places is NOT located in the Fertile Crescent of North Africa and
Southwest Asia?
A) eastern Turkey
B) Syria
C) Libya
D) Lebanon
E) northern Iraq
36) Into which category of agriculture does pastoral nomadism fall?
A) subsistence agriculture
B) commercial agriculture
C) plantation agriculture
D) intensive agriculture
E) specialized agriculture
37) Many of the immigrants who have left Morocco and Algeria have moved to this European
country.
A) United States
B) Egypt
C) Italy
D) France
E) Germany
38) What cash crop grown in Morocco has benefited from the commercial adaptation of the
Mediterranean climate to agriculture?
A) hashish
B) dates
C) figs
D) oranges
E) wheat
39) What is physiological density?
A) a population statistic that relates the number of people in a country to the amount land in that
country
B) a population statistic that relates the number of people in a country to the number of farmers
C) a population statistic that relates the number of people in a country to the amount of arable
land
D) a population statistic that relates the number of people in a country to the number of doctors
E) a population statistic that relates the number of people in a country to the amount of food
harvested
40) Which of the following statements most accurately describes the pattern of domestication in
Southwest Asia and North Africa?
A) Experimentation with wild cattle, sheep, and goats 10,000 years ago led to pastoral
nomadism, and later to domestication of wheat and barley and the establishment of farm
settlements.
B) Experimentation with wild wheat and barley 10,000 years ago was accompanied
simultaneously by domestication of cattle, sheep, and goats, which eventually led to establishing
farming villages.
C) Experimentation with wild wheat and barley 5,000 years ago was accompanied
simultaneously by domestication of cattle, sheep, and goats, which led to the establishment of
farming villages.
D) Experimentation with wild wheat and barley 5,000 years ago was accompanied
simultaneously by domestication of cattle, sheep, and goats. Farming villages and pastoral
nomadism developed together.
E) Experimentation with wild wheat and barley 10,000 years ago led to farm settlements and
domestication of cattle, sheep, and goats.
41) In which country of Southwest Asia and North Africa would you be MOST likely to find
dryland agriculture?
A) Iraq
B) Israel
C) Turkey
D) Saudi Arabia
E) Egypt
42) Which of the following is NOT one of the recent migration patterns found in Southwest Asia
and North Africa?
A) rural to urban migration
B) urban to rural migration
C) the movement of workers to labor-poor countries
D) the movement of laborers out of the region altogether
E) the movement of people to the countries that dominated them during their periods of
colonization
43) Which of the following religions arose in North Africa/Southwest Asia?
A) Animism
B) Buddhism
C) Hinduism
D) Islam
E) Shinto
44) People making a pilgrimage to Makkah (Mecca) and Medinah must travel to which country
of Southwest Asia and North Africa?
A) Saudi Arabia
B) Israel
C) Egypt
D) Jordan
E) Iraq
45) What religion was the first monotheistic religion of Southwest Asia and North Africa?
A) Judaism
B) Islam
C) Christianity
D) Bahai
E) Buddhism
46) Which ethnic group of Southwest Asia and North Africa is an example of a nation without a
state?
A) Turks
B) Persians
C) Yemenis
D) Kurds
E) Omanis