North Africa, Southwest Asia & Central Asia Test Review

Define alluvial soil? 

• Reg are a mixture of sand and gravel and ergs is just a big part of the sand 

• Alluvium is loose clay, silt, sand, or gravel that has been deposited by running water in a stream bed, on a floodplain, in an alluvial fan or beach, or in similar settings.

• to increase the amount of hydroelectric power, regulate the flooding of the Nile and increase agricultural production.

• Relating to or characteristic by the beliefs that there is only one zGod

What is the difference between ergs and regs?

• Reg are a mixture of sand and gravel and ergs is just a big part of the sand 

• The Sahara Desert

• to increase the amount of hydroelectric power, regulate the flooding of the Nile and increase agricultural production.

• Dead Sea water has a density 1.24kg 

What is the longest river in the region and the world? What percentage of Egypain population lives along the river or is it delta?

• The Nile

• The Amazon

• The Hudson

• The Elk corn River

What is the largest hot weather desert in the world?

• The Sahara Desert

• The Amazon Desert

• The Gobi Desert

Why are people emigrating (leaving) North Africa?

• Because they need money

• They have poor education

• they need jobs and education

• they just wanted to leave

Define Bedouins 

• A nomadic Arab of the desert 

• A ethnic group

• A type of Chruch

• The Amazon desert

Who built the pyramids and why?

• Egypt pharaohs 

• Romans

• Christianity

• Clathoic

Why did Egypt build the Aswan High Dam?

• to increase the amount of hydroelectric power, regulate the flooding of the Nile and increase agricultural production.

• the process by which fertiel land becomes desert, typically as a result ofdourght  deforestaton  or inappropriate agriculture.

• a day of religious obsevation  and abstenice from work, kept by Jewish people from Friday evening to Saturday evening, and by most Christians on Sunday.

What makes it possible for most countries of the regions, to grow enough food to feed them? What are they forced to do as a result?

• Having platues

• Making money off of farming

• During the war that the only way they got food

• Because the Nile river is right there and a good water source

What percentage of the low world’s known oil reserves are located in North Africa, Southwest Asia, and Central Asia?

• 80

• 60

• 50

• 40