social studies semester 2 final

Question 1

What is New Zealand’s main export?

Answer 1

wool

Question 2

What are the names of the Pacific Island regions?

Answer 2

1. Micronesia
2. Polynesia
3. Melanesia

Question 3

What country owned Australia before its independence?

Answer 3

Great Britain

Question 4

What is the Great Barrier Reef?

Answer 4

world’s largest coral reef system - 2,900 coral reefs dotted with 900 islands

Question 5

What physical feature does Australia have?

Answer 5

1. desert outback
2. grasslands
3. mountains
4. coral reef

Question 6

What is Australia known as?

Answer 6

the land down under

Question 7

Is Antarctica a desert?

Answer 7

yes - no available water - all frozen

Question 8

How is Antarctica different from other places?

Answer 8

no permanent populations or countries

used for research

Question 9

What is the difference between an iceberg and an ice shelf?

Answer 9

ice shelf comes from land

iceberg - free floating

Question 10

What is meant by the following quote, “The flying bullet down the Pass, That whistles clear: “All flesh is grass.”

Answer 10

compares human life to a blade of grass - short and easily cut even shorter

Question 11

What is the Rub’ al-Khali?

Answer 11

the largest sand desert in the world - known as the empty quarter

Question 12

List the three religions that are popular in southwest and central Asia?

Answer 12

1. Islam
2. Christianity
3. Judaism

Question 13

What two groups are fighting in Israel? What land are they fighting over?

Answer 13

Israeli and Palestinians - fighting over the Gaza Strip (West Strip)

Question 14

Describe Iran’s government and Saudi Arabia’s government. How are they similar to and different from the U.S.?

Answer 14

Iran - Theocracy - Presidential System - Islamic Republic - Parliamentary System - elected officials under rule of a Muslin Cleric (supreme leader)

Saudi Arabia - absolute monarchy
- ultra conservative - literal interpretation of Islam - divine authority

• much more restrictive than U.S.
  We separate church and state and have religious freedom.
  We do have elections.

Question 15

What is the difference between crude oil and oil reserves?

Answer 15

crude oil or petroleum is a liquid mixture still in the ground
oil reserves are the amount of recoverable oil have been discovered but aren’t being used

Question 16

What country has the most oil reserves?

Answer 16

Saudi Arabia

Question 17

What is the Human Development Index, and why is it used?

Answer 17

life expectancy, education and income index used to rank countries in 4 tiers of human development - social and economic

Question 18

Why are the Aral Sea and the Dead Sea shrinking?

Answer 18

dams and irrigation

Question 19

What is apartheid?

Answer 19

racial separation in South Africa between whites and blacks in South Africa

Question 20

Where was apartheid?

Answer 20

South Africa

Question 21

What was the beginning of apartheid?

Answer 21

colonization of Africa - British wanted to maintain minority rule - passed laws legalizing segregation

Question 22

What is meant by the term genocide?

Answer 22

deliberate killing of a large group of people of a particular group or nation

Question 23

Where in Africa was a genocide?

Answer 23

Rwanda

Question 24

What groups were involved in the Rwanda genocide?

Answer 24

Hutu majority and Tutsi (roughly 70% killed)

Question 25

Where in Europe was a genocide?

Answer 25

Nazi Germany and nearby areas

Question 26

Where in Central America was a genocide?

Answer 26

Guatemala

Question 27

What is the impact of the Nile River on the people living there?

Answer 27

great water source - farming and survival

Question 28

What is the impact of the Sahara Desert on the people living there?

Answer 28

little water - barely any life

Question 29

What countries does the Nile River flow through?

Answer 29

Egypt, Sudan, Ethiopia, Burundi, Uganda, Kenya

Question 30

What is the Nile River known for?

Answer 30

longest river in Africa

Question 31

What is the scramble for Africa?

Answer 31

invasion, occupation, colonization, and annexation of African territory by European powers

Question 32

What is European Imperialism?

Answer 32

when an empire believes it is superior or dominant and extends their control over other people and places

Question 33

What is the Berlin Conference?

Answer 33

divided up Africa - regulated European colonization and trade in Africa

Question 34

What is another name for South and East Asia?

Answer 34

Monsoon Asia, because of the heavy seasonal rains

Question 35

What are the main physical features in South and East Asia?

Answer 35

Himalayas

Gobi Desert

Question 36

What are the main climate zones in South and East Asia?

Answer 36

humid subtropical

highlands

Question 37

What are three religions popular in South and East Asia?

Answer 37

1. Hindu
2. Islam
3. Confucionism

Question 38

Describe the population trends in South and East Asia.

Answer 38

still rapidly growing - China is the largest

Question 39

What two sides fought in the Korean war?

Answer 39

North and South Korea

Question 40

Why did North and South Korea go to war?

Answer 40

North Korea - communist

South Korea - democratic

Question 41

What two sides fought in the Vietnam War? Why?

Answer 41

North Vietnam

and South Vietnam

Question 42

What are the Executive Order 9066 and the Civil Liberties Act of 1988?

Answer 42

EO 9066 - FDR authorized Japanese relocation during WWII

CLA of 1988 - president gave $20,000 to each person put in the camps as an apology