World Geography Final Exam Review 1 st Semester Vocabulary: North Africa and Southwest Asia: Exotic Rivers Theocracy secular Free port Oasis Potash Erg Fellahin Sunni Magnesium Reg Hajj Shi ism Zionism Depressions Mandate Dynasty Kurds Wadis Imams Holocaust Berbers Bedouins Sultans Silt OPEC Mandates Pharaohs Ayatollahs souks Hieroglyphs Sub-Saharan Africa: Sahel Tsetse Fly Genocide Apartheid Staple Ivory Escarpment Sanctions Millet Swahili Biodiversity Informal Sector Sorghum Sisal Veld Afrikaners Dual Economies Gum Arabic African National Congress South, East, and Southeast Asia: Subcontinent Sanskrit Dalits Sikhism Jainism Pantheon Sepoys Boycott Partition reincarnation dharma karma Caste cottage industries jute Storm Surge Protectorate graphite paddy intensive agriculture Double cropping aquaculture Puppet government Communes Pictograph calligraphy martial law tsunamis Flyway shogun samurai annex Armistice demilitarized zone subsidies work ethnic Export economy trade surplus urban agglomeration arboreal domino theory ASEAN wats klongs archipelago lahars endemic species homogeneous kampongs slash-and-burn agriculture
Please label continents and oceans: Please Label Countries on the NASWA map.
South Asia map: Be able to label countries and waterways General Geography Definitions: Weather Culture Literacy Rate Climate Monotheism Acid Rain Globalization Fundamentalism Population Density Identification: 1. The above picture is an example of a. 2. A compass rose is used to show. 3. Cardinal Directions include:,,, 4. Lines that run parallel to each other are lines of. 5. Lines of Longitude. 6. Another word used to identify lines of longitude is. Latitude:. 7. What is the Greenhouse Effect? 8. What is a formal region? a. What is an example of a formal region? 9. Chemicals in air pollution cause. 10. What is the most widely spoken language in the world?
a. Approximately how many people speak this language? 11. What is a push factor? a. An example of a push factor is: 12. What is a pull factor? a. An example of a pull factor is: 13. What tools do we use to measure development? 14. What is population density and how do we measure it? 15. What is the most basic form of economic activity? 16. What is a Cyclone? 17. Define Aquifer. 18. Describe and give an example of each of the following: a. Primary Activity b. Secondary Activity c. Quaternary Activity d. Tertiary Activity 19. What are the six elements and give a description of each? a. _ b. _ c. _ d. _ e. _ f. _ NASWA: 1. What is the name of the region that includes land from the Persian Gulf through the Tigris and Euphrates rivers? 2. Where are the Kurds located in NAWSA (which countries)? a. What do the Kurds want more than anything? 3. Where was the prophet Muhammad born? 4. Why is Mecca important to Muslims? 5. What country in NASWA has the largest oil production? 6. Significance of West Bank, Golan Heights, Gaza Strip 7. What country is in both Europe and Asia? 8. What is the significance of Hajj? 9. Describe Zionism
10. What animal is generally NOT raised in the Persian Gulf and interior? Why? 11. Iran is ruled by a (n). 12. What happened to Palestine after World War I? 13. What three strips of land are issues in the Arab-Israel conflict? 14. Where is the Nile located? a. What body of water does is empty into? 15. Hieroglyphs were developed by the 16. What city grew rich trading gold, spices, ivory, and slaves between central and western Africa, Europe and Arabia? 17. Why is clothing worn in North Africa long and loose? 18. Muslims pray times a day. Sub-Saharan Africa 1. What factors contribute to desertification? 2. What city was an important center of trade in the Mali Empire? 3. Why did Europeans originally explore the coast of West Africa? 4. What tropical farm products were exported to Europe during the colonial period? 5. What challenges are being faced in the countries in West and Central Africa? a. b. c. d. 6. Why are Burundi and Rwanda able to support dense populations that are unsustainable in other countries of the region? 7. Which early culture built pyramids? Aksum, Kush, Swahili, Hutu 8. What were the first three African Kingdoms? 9. Who was the leader of the ANC? 10. Swahili contains many vocabulary words from what language? 11. What are the causes of many of Eat Africa s current challenges? a. 12. In Rwanda, the people practiced genocide against the. 13. Where are the Drakensberg (mountains) located? 14. What skill did early Bantu settlers bring to southern Africa? 15. Why did the Dutch originally want to settle in southern Africa? 16. In 1994, South Africa held their first elections open to. 17. Why do so many children develop illness in southern Africa? 18. Why is life expectancy declining in southern Africa? South, East, and Southeast Asia 1. The Brahmaputra and Ganges river bother begin in the mountains. 2. What is Pongal? 3. The largest spoken language in India is. 4. The British East India Company control India for the in the 1700 s. 5. Maldives is made up of islands.
6. What continually reshapes Bangladesh? (Boundaries are reshaped frequently) 7. Which two countries of the Indian Perimeter are landlocked? a. b. 8. What are the major environmental issues facing china today? 9. Located the following places in relation to China: a. Japan: b. Korea: c. Taiwan: 10. What region is China s rice bowl? 11. The Yangtze (river) is known as. 12. Hong Kong is known as a major and center in China. Students you will also be responsible for reading and interpreting charts.