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43 Cards in this Set
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In what part of Sub-Saharan Africa are the most secure wildlife reserves located?
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The southern potion of the region
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In what country are powdered rhino horns from Sub-Saharan Africa valued as a traditional medicine?
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China
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What parts of Sub-Saharan Africa are most vulnerable to global climate change?
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Semi-arid regions
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The Sahel is a
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zone of ecological transition between the Sahara to the north and the wetter savannas and forests to the South.
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How has the existence of the Great Escarpment, which runs from southwestern Angola and ends in northeaster South Africa, affected coastal settlement in the region?
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It was an impediment to settlement.
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Which group of Africans bears a disproportionate burden of the AID's epidemic in the region?
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Women
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What role did disease play in European efforts to colonize Africa?
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Endemic tropical diseases in Sub-Saharan Africa killed many Europeans, and delayed their conquest of the region.
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The Boers
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were dutch settlers in South Africa
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What is the racial category used in the country of South Africa to define people of mixed European and African ancestry?
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coloureds
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In what Sub-Sahara African country has a civil war occurred in it Darfur region?
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Sudan
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What was the first European country to have extensive contact with Sub-Saharan Africa?
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Portugal
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The demise of apartheid in South Africa
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culminated with a decision by the majority white party to hold free elections.
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What two groups fought each other in the Boer War?
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British and Dutch
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How did Germany lose its African colonies?
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After its defeat in world War 1, Great Britain and France divided Germany's African territory.
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What country has begun offering African nations money for roads, railways and schools with relatively few strings attached in order to secure oil from African countries to fuel its development?
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China
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*What do we call the countries Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia as a group?
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The Maghreb
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*Which of the following is NOT one for the environmental problems facing North Africa/Southwest Asia?
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Hurricanes
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*Which country of Southwest Asia and North Africa has made efforts to preserve its famed "cedars" forest lands in recent years?
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Lebanon
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Which of the following countries of Southwest Asia and North Africa has the most diversified economy, and is not reliant on oil?
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Turkey
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The kibbutz, a collectively worked settlement that produces grain, vegetable, and orchard crops, using irrigation, is associated with which country of Southwest Asia and North Africa?
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Isreal
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What is "dryland" agriculture?
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agriculture that depends largely on seasonal precipitation to support farming.
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In which part of Israel has some land been returned to Palestinian control, but new Israeli settlements have also been allowed?
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Gaza strip, West Bank, Sinai Peninsula, Bethlehem
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Why do most people migrate with and emigrate from southwest Asia and North Africa?
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to take advantage of job oppurtunities
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Why is the region of southwest Asia and North Africa considered a culture hearth?
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It was an early center for agriculture, several great civilizations, and it was the center for three major world religions.
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People making a hajj (pilgrimage) to Makkah and Medinah must travel to which country of Southwest Asia and North Africa?
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Saudi Arabia
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Which country of Southwest Asia and North Africa is experiencing tension between Sunni and Shi'a Muslims?
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Saudi Arabia
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Which two bodies of water were connected by the construction of the Suez canal?
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Mediterranean Sea and Red sea
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Which of the following countries of southwest Asia and North Africa experiences earthquakes with the greatest frequency?
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Turkey
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Which of the following cities in Southwest Asia and North Africa receives the highest amounts of annual precipitation?
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Istanbul, Turkey-31.5 of the options given
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What is a physiological density?
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a population statistic that relates the number of people in a country to the amount of arable land.
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Which river divides the unglaciated part of the European lowland in the south from the glaciated plains in the north?
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The Rhine
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What are the current impacts of climate change in Europe?
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Sea ice is dwindling, there is sparse snow cover in arctic Scandinavia, and thee are frequent droughts in the water-starved Mediterranean region.
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Why is the North European Plan also known as the "lowland" of Europe?
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Most of it is less than 500 feet in elevation
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What is a fjord?
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A flooded valley originally carved out by glaciers.
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In Which European country would you find fjords?
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Norway
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Which of the following is Not a reason for opposing unlimited migration into Europe?
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concerns about the ability of Europe to produce enough food for these additional people
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What term describes the fragmented geopolitical processes involved with small-scale independence movements and the phenomenon of mini-nationalism as it develops along ethnic fault lines?
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balkanization
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What are the anchor countries of the European Union?
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Germany, France, Italy, United Kingdom (UK)
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What is the word for an array of nonaligned or friendly states that cushion or protect a larger country from invasion as happened with the former Soviet Union and its Eastern European neighbors?
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buffer zone
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Which of the following landscapes of England was created over thousands of years by grazing sheep and cattle?
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heath land
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NATO
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North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Founders, France, Denmark, Canada, Belgium, Iceland, Luxembourg, Norway, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, USA, UK, in April 4, 1949 (wikipedia) |
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Arab Spring
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protests throughout Africa and East Asia
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Dawn of Humanity
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Eastern Africa
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