SI material for Midterm 2

Question 1

What is considered the hub of East Africa and what are the factors of it?

Answer 1

Nairobi - Kenya
political and economic center
transportation, finance, and communication
3.5 million people

Question 2

What countries rely of Zambezi as a vital source of Hydroelectricity?

Answer 2

Zimbabwe
Zambia
Mozambique

Question 3

Highest peak in Africa

Answer 3

Mount Kilimanjaro - Tanzania

Question 4

Largest river by volume

Answer 4

Congo

Flows through Ituri and Dem. Rep. of the Congo

Question 5

Sahel and its importance

Answer 5

Ecological transition between Sahara and Ituri

dangers of unchecked population growth and env. degradation

Question 6

Is deforestation a problem in Sub-Saharan Africa

Answer 6

Yes, harder for families to gather wood or supplies especially vegetation as a food source.

Question 7

What region is “ground zero” of AIDS

Answer 7

Southern Africa

(Namibia, Botswana, South Africa, Lesotho Zimbabwe, Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique, and Swaziland

Question 8

Pastoralist

Answer 8

Graze their stock on the stubble of the harvested fields during the dry season then move them to drier uncultivated area during wet season when pastures turn green

Question 9

What is the African Union

Answer 9

continent wide organization whose main role has been to mediate disputes between neighbors

Question 10

What conference divided up Africa into countries during colonization? Who held the meeting, where, when, how many countries attended? Were there african leaders?

Answer 10

13 countries convened in Berlin Conference by invitation of German Chancellor Bismarck in 1884 with no African representatives present

Question 11

Kleptocracy

Answer 11

State in which corruption is so institutionalized that most politicians and government bureacrats siphon off huge percentage of the country’s wealth

Question 12

What body of water separates the continent of Africa from Madagascar

Answer 12

The Mozambique Channel

Question 13

What sea separates Africa from Europe?

Answer 13

Mediterranean Sea

Question 14

South Africa is home to the Cape of

Answer 14

Good Hope

Question 15

Africa geologically has what type of crust?

Answer 15

Old Continental

Question 16

What separates Spain from Africa? How is it strategic?

Answer 16

Strait of Gibraltar

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Question 17

Country home to the Suez Canal

Answer 17

Egypt

Question 18

Why does the US have such interests in using the Suez Canal?

Answer 18

Trade?

Question 19

What are the 4 major rivers of Africa?

Answer 19

Niger
Nile
Congo
Zambezi

Question 20

Is Djibouti strategic for the US military? Why?

Answer 20

Yes, we have a naval base there that we send air strikes from

Question 21

What sea is joined by the Mediterranean through the Suez Canal

Answer 21

Red Sea

Question 22

Why can’t boats trade use the rivers as means to get products inland in Africa?

Answer 22

They flow out into the sea

Question 23

What geological and geographical features are located in the Eastern Rift Zone? What famous artifact was found here?

Answer 23

Lucy… Finish Question

Question 24

What type of climate does the Cape of Good Hope have?

Answer 24

IDK

Question 25

Nile flows

Answer 25

north

Question 26

Where were the Ashanti located

Answer 26

idk

Question 27

Pretoria

Answer 27

South Africa

Question 28

Luanda

Answer 28

Angola

Question 29

Antananarivo

Answer 29

Madagascar

Question 30

Rabat

Answer 30

Morocco

Question 31

Abuja

Answer 31

Nigeria

Question 32

Kigali

Answer 32

Rwanda

Question 33

Freetown

Answer 33

Sierra Leone

Question 34

Mogadishu

Answer 34

Somalia

Question 35

Tripoli

Answer 35

Libya

Question 36

Bloemfontein

Answer 36

South Africa

Question 37

Accra

Answer 37

Ghana

Question 38

Nairobi

Answer 38

Kenya

Question 39

Cape Town

Answer 39

South Africa

Question 40

How many independent states are in Africa | What percentage is that amongst the world

Answer 40

57 | .....

Question 41

What is the overall pop of Africa? Estimate what percent that would be in the world?

Answer 41

920 million | .....

Question 42

How many regions of Africa are there? What are they

Answer 42

``` 5 North South East West Central ```

Question 43

What countries consist in South Africa

Answer 43

......

Question 44

Which countries had independence before WWII

Answer 44

South Africa.....

Question 45

What is the largest city in South Africa

Answer 45

Johannesburg

Question 46

What is considered the hub of East Africa

Answer 46

Nairobi - Kenya

Question 47

What is the Capital of Egypt and why is it considered the Paris of the Nile

Answer 47

Cairo | Great open spaces, grand boulevards and key gov buildings

Question 48

Tahrir Square is also know as what

Answer 48

Liberation square Arab Spring Movement Protests In Egypt

Question 49

What countries make up the Fertile Crescent

Answer 49

Lebanon, Syria, Northern Iraq, Eastern Turkey | oldest hearth for agriculture domestication

Question 50

What is Islamic fundamentalism

Answer 50

advocates a return to more traditional practices within the Islamic religion

Question 51

Islamism

Answer 51

challenges the encroachment of global popular culture and blames colonial, imperial, and Western elements for many of the regions political, economic, and social problems

Question 52

What is salinization and how is this an issue in Middle East?

Answer 52

buildup of toxic salts in the soil | depleted lands in agricultural based locations

Question 53

Hydropolitics

Answer 53

interplay of water resource issues and politics

Question 54

What countries are located in the Greater Maghreb region of North Africa?

Answer 54

Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia

Question 55

Mountain chain in the Maghreb

Answer 55

Atlas

Question 56

What is pastoral nomadism

Answer 56

subsistence agriculture where people move livestock seasonally

Question 57

Two countries 100% urban

Answer 57

Bahrain | Qatar

Question 58

Medina

Answer 58

Traditional Islamic city features a walled core

Question 59

Tallest building in the world called and where is it located

Answer 59

Dubai's Burj Khalifa

Question 60

Monotheism

Answer 60

Belief in One God Judaism Christianity Islam

Question 61

original characteristics differences between Shiite and Sunni Muslims

Answer 61

Shiite- favored passing on power within Muhammad's family | Sunnis- advocating passing down power through established clergy

Question 62

Countries involved in Arab Spring movement

Answer 62

Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, and Yemen

Question 63

Arab League

Answer 63

regional political and economic organization focused on Arab unity and development

Question 64

Progression of power in South Africa

Answer 64

Dutch - British - Independence

Question 65

Capital of Saudi Arabia

Answer 65

Riyadh

Question 66

Which language family is most wide spread through Sub-saharan Africa

Answer 66

Niger-Congo (Bantu)

Question 67

Territorial state with smallest population

Answer 67

Saudi Arabia

Question 68

Taurus Mountains

Answer 68

Southeast Turkey

Question 69

Atlas and Casablanca Mountains

Answer 69

Morocco

Question 70

Elburz Mounatins

Answer 70

Tehran

Question 71

Mt Kilimanjaro

Answer 71

East African Rift

Question 72

What is the largest nation in SW Asia dominated by the Altaic language

Answer 72

Turkey

Question 73

Ankara

Answer 73

Turkey

Question 74

Beirut

Answer 74

Lebanon

Question 75

Damascus

Answer 75

Syria

Question 76

Iraw

Answer 76

Baghdad

Question 77

Amman

Answer 77

Jordan

Question 78

Riyadh

Answer 78

Saudi Arabia

Question 79

Muscat

Answer 79

Oman

Question 80

Tehran

Answer 80

Iran