Geography Final Review

What is the most important river in India?

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

Shallow salt lakes in the desert are called

What is the worlds largest atoll?

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

The small part of Turkey on the Balkan Peninsula is called

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

The most important water system in Australia is

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

The leader of Tibetan Buddhism is called the

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

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

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

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

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

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

The first modern missionary to South Asia was

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

Most Pakistanis are

The legislative branch of Russia’s national government is the

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

What is China’s largest city?

The Largest of the Solomon Islands is

What name describes the great coniferous forests of Siberia?

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

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

What is the largest group of islands called?

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

Collapsible round tents in which Mongolian nomads live are called

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

The highest mountain range in the world is in the

What is the open water between ice floes called?

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

The term glasnost means

Which country surrounds Lesotho?

The predominant religion of Japan is

The Moors have an ancestry of mixed

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

New Zealand’s highest mountain is

What is the largest city of the Middle East?

Japan’s largest island is

Zarathustra founded which Persian religion?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The word pacific means

The grasslands of Africa are called

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

What kind of government does Thailand have?

The second most important river in Russia is the

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

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

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

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

White desert nomads who live in Niger are called

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

Which islands history includes the stories of the HMS Bounty?

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

Which country is the only landlocked Central African country?

Brown coal is called

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

What are isolated underwater volcanoes called?

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

Burkina Faso means

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

The sparsely populated interior of Australia is known as the

Explorers discovered what group of Christians in India?

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

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

Mount Everest is in

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

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

Elephants trainers in Thailand are called

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

Jumbucks is the Australian term for

Australia’s lowest point is located in

Sierra Leone means

What is the process whereby salt is removed from saltwater?