"Eastern World" Study Guide

Question 1

What are the two main branches of geography?

Answer 1

Physical Geography and Human Geography

Question 2

What are the main processes of the water cycle?

Answer 2

Evaporation and precipitation

Question 3

What are the two physical features that gave Mesopotamia its name?

Answer 3

Tigris and Euphrates rivers

Question 4

What is a “highland”? Where can you find one?

Answer 4

A type of climate found in mountainous regions. They can be found at many different latitudes.

Question 5

What is notable about Bahrain’s geography?

Answer 5

It is a group of islands

Question 6

What do we call the process of moving from one place to another?

Answer 6

migration

Question 7

What is “The Resurrection”?

Answer 7

The Christian belief that Jesus rose from the dead

Question 8

What word best describes Central Asia’s physical geography?

Answer 8

Landlocked

Question 9

Why was Egypt called “The Gift of the Nile”?

Answer 9

The Nile brought fertility and life to the region

Question 10

How did the great kingdoms of West Africa become powerful?

Answer 10

By controlling trade routes across the Sahara

Question 11

What helped unify China?

Answer 11

The Qin dynasty under the policies of Shi Huangdi

Question 12

What has been a major problem for former African colonies since becoming independent?

Answer 12

Fighting among ethnic groups

Question 13

Where are Harappa and Mohenjo Daro located?

Answer 13

Near the Indus River

Question 14

What causes tsunamis?

Answer 14

Underwater earthquakes and volcanic eruptions

Question 15

Who were the first humans to live in Australia?

Answer 15

The Aborigines

Question 16

These scientists try to find relationships among people who live far apart.

Answer 16

Geographers who study the world on a global level

Question 17

Where does the Bible say that Moses received the Ten Commandments?

Answer 17

A mountain called Sinai

Question 18

What are the main physical features of the Arabian Peninsula?

Answer 18

Desert plains and oases

Question 19

What causes night and day?

Answer 19

The earth’s rotation

Question 20

What is population density?

Answer 20

A measure of the number of people living in an area

Question 21

Who conquered and had a major influence on Central Asia?

Answer 21

The Arabs, Mongols, and Soviets

Question 22

What happened after the Kushites were driven out of Egypt?

Answer 22

Meroe became the new Kushite capital and center of a large trade network.

Question 23

What parts of Africa did France rule in the early 1900s?

Answer 23

Tunisia, Algeria, and parts of Morocco

Question 24

What is the Congo Basin?

Answer 24

A bowl-shaped landform that covers much of Central Africa

Question 25

What happened after the rule of Candra Gupta II?

Answer 25

The Gupta society began to decline

Question 26

What is Taiwan like?

Answer 26

Green and tropical, with beautiful mountains and crowded cities

Question 27

What is an important industry in the Outback, Australia's interior?

Answer 27

Mining

Question 28

Is geography a science or a social science?

Answer 28

Both

Question 29

What is Korea's main obstacle to reunification?

Answer 29

The question of a common form of government

Question 30

What is a front?

Answer 30

A place where two air masses of different temperatures or moisture content meet

Question 31

What is the Caste system?

Answer 31

It divides Indian society into groups based on a person's birth, wealth, or occupation

Question 32

Where was Babylon?

Answer 32

Near present-day Iraq

Question 33

Who led the Jews on long journeys?

Answer 33

Abraham and Moses

Question 34

What is a tariff?

Answer 34

A fee that a country charges on imports and exports

Question 35

What is a dialect?

Answer 35

A regional variety of a language

Question 36

What is an embargo?

Answer 36

A limit placed on trade with another country

Question 37

What is a drought?

Answer 37

A long period of lower than normal precipitation

Question 38

What is monotheism?

Answer 38

The worship of only one god

Question 39

What is Latitude?

Answer 39

The distance north or south of the equator

Question 40

What does it mean to secede?

Answer 40

To break away from the main country

Question 41

What is a missionary?

Answer 41

People who want to spread their religious beliefs

Question 42

What is imperialism?

Answer 42

A practice used to dominate other countries' government, trade, and culture.

Question 43

What is a delta?

Answer 43

A landform at the mouth of a river created by sediment deposits

Question 44

How did the people of Western Africa preserve their history?

Answer 44

They did NOT use written records. Oral history?

Question 45

How has Central Africa's economy been affected by the lack of major rivers?

Answer 45

It has NOT slowed the economy

Question 46

What was the silk road?

Answer 46

A network of trade routes that connected East and West. Europe, Egypt, Arabian Peninsula, Persia, India, China

Question 47

What is the significant of the Antarctic Treaty of 1959?

Answer 47

It set aside Antarctica as a scientific preserve and banned all military activity on the continent.