Week 19 Social Studies

Which country is said to have the highest per-capita income in the world?

• Bahrain

• Qatar

• Kuwait

• Lebanon

Which of the following names is Western Asia often called?

• Northern Africa Sub-continent

• Middle East

• East Africa

• Southern Region of Europe

The town of Bethlehem is located along side what body of water?

• the Red Sea

• The Persian Gulf

• The Indian Ocean

• The Jordan River

What country is the farthest South in Western Asia?

• Turkey

• Iraq

• Yemen

• Oman

According to Iraq's new constitution, who are the members of its executive branch?

• the judges and courts

• 325 Elected Representatives

• The President and Prime Minister

• The king and his family

What happened after the USSR disbanded in 1991?

• Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia declared independence

• Yemen's per capita income became much higher

• Armenia and Georgia became involved in a decades-long war

• The former Soviet Republics have been fighting over Cyprus since 1960

Turkey has withstood years of attacks from what Iraqi group?

• Hamas

• PLO

• Kurdistans

• Hezbollah

According to your reading material, why does Canada, Israel, and the U.S. consider the major force in Lebanon, to be a terrorist group?

• Hezbollah has taken over most of West Asian countries at one point in time

• The Sunni's were led by Saddam Hussein.

• Qatar uses its economic strength to make other people in the region poorer.

• Hezbollah uses fear and intimidation to achieve goals, rather than diplomacy.

Yemen and Qatar have relatively the same per capita income.

• True

• False

In what year did Iraq's new government approve its new constitution?

• 2011

• 2001

• 2005

• 2015