Geography review

_____ in northern Europe, are causing ice to melt, which endangered land used for traditional herding and farming practices

• Warm temperatures

• Oil spills

• Industrial pollutants

• Invasive species

Which two ethnic groups were most affected by ethnic cleansing during the 1990s?

• Serbs and Bosnian Croats

• Bosnian Croats and Bosnian Muslims

• Bosnian Muslims and Albanians

• Macedonians and Bosnian Croats

Ethnic Russians today are descendants of ______ farmers and hunters who settled the northern European plain in the A.D 600s

• Aryan

• Slav

• Turkic

• Roman

At the Berlin conference in 1884 and 1885,

• Mansa Muss ceded his empire to Songhai

• European countries established colonial boundaries in Africa

• Liberia was granted independence

• Germany was forced to give up its colonial claims in Africa

Since most people in the countryside and southern Africa, do not live near a major river, the increased used of _____ is reducing the amount of water available in the region

• Logging

• Groundwater

• Air pollution

• Mining

Because of concern about the damage, it could cause to the environment and salmon spawning grounds environmental groups have demanded strict, regulations on ____ remote Kamchatka

• Logging

• Mining

• Air pollution

• Fishing

Much of southern Africa’s coastal plain along the Atlantic coast is a ____ biome

• Forest

• Savanna

• Desert

• Grassland

About 3500 mi.² of _____ are lost each year

• Coral barrier reefs

• Glaciers in the equatorial mountains

• God ag soil

• Congo basin rainforest