NASWA Unit Assessment Review

If a King died and his son became the new king, and this happened over hundreds of years, this would be called a:

• Decomcracy

• Government

• dynasty

• kingdom

The first known civilization was located near the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers. Where was this located?

• Turkey

• Egypt

• Rom

• Mesopotamia

Most of NASWA is covered with what geographic feature?

• Deserts

• plains

• gulfs

• mountains

Humans building things like dams or cutting down forests is called what?

• human development index (HDI)

• per capita GDP

• human environment interaction

• diffusion

Why do other countries think that Saudi Arabia is important?

• food exports

• industrial chemicals

• petroleum(oil) reserves

• consumer electronics

Sumeria, in Mesopotamia created the first form of writing. This was called what?

• hieroglyphics

• cuneiform

• papyrus

• hydrographics

What is a holy city for Muslims, Christians and Jews?

• Jerusalem

• Medina

• Mecca

• Bethlehem

Abraham is considered the father of what?

• Israel, Palestine, Iraq

• Judaism, Christianity, Islam

• Buddhism, Judaism, Hinduism

• Egypt, Iran, Saudi Arabia

According to the graph, which country has the highest amount of oil reserves?

• Iran

• Saudi Arabia

• Libya

• United Arab Emirates

What is another way of saying the 1900's?

• 20th Century

• 21st Century

• 19th Century

• 18th Century