A cooperative settlement of small individuals farms in israel

What is the alluvial plain?

Area of soil that was deposited by floodwaters

What is the Empty Quarter

Largest and harshest desert in Saudi Arabia

A Muslim Pilgrimage to Mecca once in their lives.

The spread of an ethnic group from their homeland, generally the Jews

These are the Turkish Straits

Bosphorus, Sea of Marmara, Dardanelles

Lake Balkhash has two unique features regarding the water, what are they?

Water on West is fresh water from the mountains, Water on East is salt water

Arabs who wander from place to place with their herds

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1
What is the capital of Azerbaijan?
Ankara
Baku
Tbilisi
Yerevan
2
What is the capital of Jordan?
Islamabad
Beirut
Addis Abba
Amman
3
What is a moshav?
A communal farm or settlement in israel
A cooperative settlement of small individuals farms in israel
A place where arable land becomes desert
A valley formed by the separation of tectonic plates
4
Where is the Khyber Pass?
In the Brahmaputra river valley
In the Eastern Ghats
In the Hindu Kush Mountains
On the Deccan Plateau
5
What is the alluvial plain?
A flat expanse of land that generally does not change
An area of a highland consisting of flat terrain
A landform that extends from a mainland and is surrounded by water
Area of soil that was deposited by floodwaters
6
What is the official religion of Armenia?
Confucianism
Christianity
Judaism
Islam
7
What is the Empty Quarter
Largest and harshest desert in Saudi Arabia
Biggest river in Asia
A house
An empty quarter
8
What is the highest mountain in Central Asia
Jengish Chokusu
Ismoili Somoni Peak
Khan Tengri
Peak Korzhenevskaya
9
What is the capital of Armenia?
Zagreb
Yerevan
Dastakert
Ararat
10
What family rules Saudi Arabia?
House of Molania
House of Saud
House of Islam
House of Arabi
11
What is the capital of Syria?
Aleppo
Beirut
Homs
Damascus
12
What is a hajj?
Muhammad's mystic midnight journey to Jerusalem.
A Muslim Pilgrimage to Mecca once in their lives.
Journey by the Jews to their new homeland in Palestine.
Traveling along the Silk Road.
13
What is a diaspora?
The return of a people to their stolen homeland
One of the Jewish holy books
The Jewish afterlife
The spread of an ethnic group from their homeland, generally the Jews
14
These are the Turkish Straits
Black Sea, Agean Sea, Mediterranean Sea
Europe, Africa, Asia
Bosphorus, Sea of Marmara, Dardanelles
Greece, Turkey, Persia
15
Iraq's major export
Oil
Coffee
Water
Beans
16
What desert covers the eastern region of Syria
Beirut
Syrian
Lebanon
17
What is the capital of Saudi Arabia?
Jeddah
Dubai
Mecca
Riyadh
18
What is a wadi?
A stream bed that has never dried
A riverbed that was one dried, but is now full of water
A flowing river
A dry stream bed or riverbed
19
Where did the Zionist movement want a Jewish state established
Lebanon
Sinai
Syria
Palestine
20
What is a kibbutz?
Headscarves and loose-fitting, ankle-length garments
Member of India's lowest caste
A collective farm in Israel
The forcible overthrow of a government
21
What was unique about the city of Petra
Instrumental in aiding the Allies in WW 2
Still exsits today
Built into a side of a cliff
22
What is the capital of Lebanon?
Amman
Damascus
Tel Aviv
Beirut
23
What is the lowest place on the earth
Death Valley
Salt Lake
Bay of Fundi
Dead Sea
24
What is the capital of Isreal?
Tel-Aviv
Haifa
Brownsville
Jerusalem
25
Azerbaijan's economy is based on
Diamond processing
Oil and Natural Gass
Farming
Tourism
26
Lake Balkhash has two unique features regarding the water, what are they?
Water on North is murky
Water on South cold
Water on West is fresh water from the mountains
Water on East is salt water
27
What is the capital of Iraq?
Kuwait City
Baghdad
Riyadh
Mecca
28
The Strait of Hormuz connects
Mediterranean Sea and Red Sea
Persian Gulf and Arabian Sea
Red Sea and Arabian Sea
Mediterranean Sea and Persian Gulf
29
Which one of these IS NOT an agricultural product of Turkey
Cotton
Barley
Corn
Tobacco
30
Section 3- The mountain range that runs through Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Armenia
Ural Mountains
Caucasus Mountains
Eastern Mountains
31
What are Bedouins?
Arabs who wander from place to place with their herds
Beautiful gardens to remind the King's wife of her home
Descendants of Abraham
Hebrew people
32
What are the two mountain ranges in Iran?
Elburz and Zagros
Tigris and Euphrates
Kurd and Hamrin
Tibesti and Atlas
33
Istanbul has been known by what other names?
Byzantium and New Rome
Constantinople and Ravenna
Byzantium and Constantinople
New Rome and Constantinople
34
What is the capital of Iran?
Tehran
Casa Blanca
Baghdad
Phoenix
35
What is the capital of Georgia?
Atlanta
Istanbul
Tbilisi
Ankara
36
What is the capital of Turkey?
Ankara
Konya
Istanbul
Izmir
37
What is the capital of Afghanistan?
Islamabad
Kabul
Karachi
Bangalore
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What is secular?
No religious affiliation
Interfering with the practice or a religion
Has religious affiliation

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