Russia, SW Asia, Arabian Peninsula

What is the dominant religion in Southwest Asia and the Arabian Peninsula?

The United Nations' formation of Israel in 1948 was largely a response to _______________. It's formation did spark animosity between Palestinian Arabs and Israeli's that remains today.

• The Holocaust and Anti-Semitism

• Westward Expansion

• World War 1

• Natural disasters

The strait indicated by the arrow on the map is one of the busiest shipping lanes in the world. What type of maritime traffic accounts for a majority of this activity?

• Cruise Ships

• Oil Tankers

• Speedboats

• Naval Destroyers

A ______ is a vast, flat, treeless region in which the subsoil is permanently frozen.

Russia...

• has a Czar currently.

• Has never been a socialist country.

• Has a mild winter.

• is not densely populated except for the West.

__________ uses electricity to attempt to stimulate rainfall.

• Sky Cracking

• Thunder Clapping

• Cloud Forming

• Cloud Seeding

Higher demand for crops led to a shift towards __________

• subsistence agriculture

• renewable agriculture

• commercial agriculture

• Western Agriculture

In Central Asia, the economy is mostly based on

• primary industries

• secondary industries

• tertiary industries

• auxiliary industries

Which country was NOT in the USSR?

• Russia

• Kazakhstan

• Qatar

• Ukraine

TRUE OR FALSE - The economic goal of Lenin was to build Russia into a powerful industrial economy.