World Geo 2nd Semester Final Review

A Rift Valley is a

What was the reaction in 1947 to the UN plan dividing Palestine into a Jewish and Arab State?

Most of North Africa is made up of ______________.

Who are the followers of Monotheism?

How many refugees did the film The Good Lie focus on?

Which statement is true about the Nile River?

What two major rivers run throughout the Africa Transition Zone?

What is the primary religion of North Africa?

Since 1972, Lake Chad has shrunk enormously due to ___________ and ____________.

What lake was created in Ghana to benefit Irrigation in the subregion?

According to the Islamic faith, how many times a day are the followers required to worship?

________ is religious beliefs in which nature and objects, such as animals and mountains are thought to have spirits.

Why can you remain buoyant in the Dead Sea without treading water?

Who Founded Judaism?

The ethnic composition of the Eastern Mediterranean, with the exception of Israel, is primarily

Why is the Dead Sea called the Dead Sea?

Which statement is true about women in North Africa?

What is the Holy book of the Islamic Faith called?

Which of the following is true about the Eastern Mediterranean Climate?

Generalize Women's rights in the Arab Nations of the Eastern Mediterranean.

What did the United Nations do with Palestine in 1947?

India has a rigid social structure based on the social position in which a person is born, called a Caste or ______.

Who founded Islam?

Which of these countries is not part of the Africa Transition Zone?

Only 1/4 of Africans living in the Africa Transition Zone live where there is adequate ____________.

In the film The Impossible, an English family was vacationing in ___________ when an unexpected Tsunami occurred.

In the movie Hotel Rwanda, Paul and his family shelter almost ________ refugees from the killings of the Hutu Militia.

What language does most of North Africa speak?

Which animals species are native to the Africa Transition Zone?

What country were the refugees from in the film The Good Lie?

The Russian term for "Restructuring" of the government under Mikhail Gorbachev's plan for Russia.

What is Monotheism?

All family members except for the mother Maria, survived in the film The Impossible.

The sum of one's good and bad actions from past and present life is known as __________.

____________ is the longest river in all of Europe and Russia.

Almost 80 % of Russia's population lives _______ of the Ural Mountains

What river has supported agriculture in Syria for over 7,000 years?

The leader of the USSR during WWII was ___________

A huge sea wave caused by an underwater earthquake is called a _______________.

Which of these countries make up the Levant?

The Transition Zone is also a Cultural Transition. What religion is found in the Southern part of the Transition Zone?

Who was the first Czar of Russia?

Russian term for "Openness" in the areas of politics, social issues, and media.

What percentage of India's population is Hindu?

Al-Nakba is the fleeing of more then 700,000 _____ from Israel and more then 700,000 ______ reentering Israel.

Sahel, is the Arabic word for ________

A family that is headed by a male family member is _______________.

What are the two official languages of Israel?

Hotel Rwanda takes place in the country of Rwanda in the year _________.

Rebirth into new bodies or other forms of life in known as _______________.

In the film Mulan, what was supposed to happen to Mulan when it was discovered she was a woman fighting in the army?

The Bible and the Torah are the Holy Books for which of the following?

Hindus consider the ____________ River sacred.

____________ is where the farmer keeps most of what is produced and sells what little is left.

Started the Russian Revolution in 1917, leader and brought Communism to Russia.

A wadi is a ______________

The _________ Plain is the world's longest Alluvial Plain, which is fertile soil deposited by floodwaters.

What year did India win its Independence from the British?

The film Mulan takes place in the country of ___________.

What 3 empires ruled over the African Transition Zone throughout different times in history?