Geography Final Review

What name describes the great coniferous forests of Siberia?

The major city of Lebanon that was built on an island was

Elephants trainers in Thailand are called

Which country became the major battleground between Cold Was superpowers in sub-Saharan Africa?

The title “Father of Modern Turkey” is generally attributed to

Most Pakistanis are

The boundary of the region of Antarctica is marked by which parallel of latitude?

Which islands history includes the stories of the HMS Bounty?

The region of Western Africa along the curving eastern portion was once called the

The sparsely populated interior of Australia is known as the

What is the oldest European colony in Asia, founded by the Portuguese in 1557?

White desert nomads who live in Niger are called

Which country of Northern Africa has coasts on both the Atlantic Ocean & the Mediterranean Sea?

What is the open water between ice floes called?

structure that was made in the 14-17centuries to protect China from the Mongols & Turkic tribes

Which country is the only landlocked Central African country?

Mount Everest is in

The Moors have an ancestry of mixed

ancient empire controlled the gold trade on the trade routes across the Sahel from the 4-13cent

Several African villages whose inhabitants have a common ancestor from what is called an

The word pacific means

Instead of a Vice President, Russia’s executive branch has a

A steep rise from a plain to a plateau is called a(n)

Name of the guerrilla group that played in conquering South Vietnam for the communists?

The grasslands of Africa are called

What is the most important river in India?

The vast grasslands of Russia in the Black Earth region are the

The name given to the Hawaiian islands at the time of the discovery by Europeans was

Largest country in sub-Saharan Africa and the third largest on the continent is

Dried coconut meat, a major export for many of the islands of Oceania, is called

What is the process whereby salt is removed from saltwater?

When a missionary goes to a country and gets a real job so he can minister to the natives he

What is the leading Muslim terrorist group that grew to prominence following the first Gulf War

The legislative branch of Russia’s national government is the

Which biblical mounts. situated in Turkey but also in an area that lies between Armenia & Iran

Jumbucks is the Australian term for

Australia’s lowest point is located in

The rigorous policy of racial separation practiced in South Africa fromv1948-1997 was called

The area of low hills in Israel between the Plain of Philistia & the Lebanese Mounts. is called

Which student of the ocean used his knowledge and theories to rescue a lost ship and its crew?

What are isolated underwater volcanoes called?

Which country surrounds Lesotho?

The process where the grasses & trees of an area dry out and are replaced by dry wilderness is

The most important water system in Australia is

An early and valuable commodity traded by the people of Mali for gold was

What group consists of priests and teachers in the Indian caste system?

Islam’s most holy shrine, located at Mecca, is the

What is the largest group of islands called?

The leader of Tibetan Buddhism is called the

The predominant religion of Japan is

What is the acceptance and adoption of a foreign people’s values and lifestyles?

Brown coal is called

Which ethnic minority lives in the northern highlands of Iraq near the Turkish border?

Burkina Faso means

What is the phosphate-rich area between Morocco and Mauritania that Morocco controls?

The Largest of the Solomon Islands is

Ceremonies that Africans go through to mark their official transition from child->adulthood are

The first modern missionary to South Asia was

Zarathustra founded which Persian religion?

The highest mountain range in the world is in the

Collapsible round tents in which Mongolian nomads live are called

The second most important river in Russia is the

About 92% of the people in China are part of the ethnic group known as the

What is the worlds largest atoll?

English explorer who sailed around Antarctica in 1773 searching for a fabled southern continent

Which country has the lowest literacy rate, life expectancy, and per capita GDP in the Mid East

What is the name of the place where the borders of Myanmar, Laos, and Thailand meet?

New Zealand’s highest mountain is

Explorers discovered what group of Christians in India?

From which country do most of the immigrants to Southeast Asia come?

What is China’s largest city?

Which country is the financial and high-tech hub of Southeast Asia

Shallow salt lakes in the desert are called

Sierra Leone means

What is the largest city of the Middle East?

What are the single-sail boats that Yemeni fishermen use in the Arabian Sea?

The narrow, arid area of southern Israel bordering the Mediterranean Sea that Israel captured

The small part of Turkey on the Balkan Peninsula is called

What kind of government does Thailand have?

Common language of peeps on the Ecoast of Africa developed way before European colonialist came

The term glasnost means

The low Aïr Mountains in the northern part of Niger are called the

Japan’s largest island is

Where Communist Vietnamese force defeat French forces, to end French colonialism in Indochina