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WorksheetsEastern Mediterranean Honors Geography Test
Total questions: 55
Worksheet time: 55mins
Because of both its size and its influence history, what is another name for Turkey?
Asia Minor
Crossroads of the World
Fertile Crescent
Holy Land
Which biblical mountain is situated in Turkey but also in an area that lies between Armenia and Iran?
Mount of Olives
Mount Ararat
Mount Herman
Mount Golan
Mount Moriah
The title "Father of Modern Turkey" is generally attributed to . . .
Yasser Arafat
Mahmoud Abbas
Alexander the Great
Kemal Atatürk
The small part of Turkey on the Balkan Peninsula is called . . .
Thrace
Thrice
Palestine
Byzantium
Constanbul
What is the largest city of the Middle East?
Jerusalem, Israel
Istanbul, Turkey
Damascus, Syria
Beirut, Lebanon
Baghdad, Iraq
Which mountains stretch across the southern side of Turkey?
Pontic Mountains
Taurus Mountains
Lebanon Mountains
Anti-Lebanon Mountains
What ethnic minority populates the southeastern border of Turkey?
Arabs
Kurds
Palestinians
Seljuks
The third-largest island in the Mediterranean is . . .
Sicily
Sardinia
Cyprus
Crete
The land southeast of Turkey along the eastern Mediterranean is called . . .
the Levant
Anatolia
the Gaza Strip
the Golan Heights
What term describes the entire region of the Levant with the river valleys of Mesopotamia?
Fertile Crescent
Mandate of Syria
Negev
Plain of Esdraelon
Areas of control in the Middle East that the League of Nations gave to France and Great Britain following World War I were . . .
Kibbutizm
Tells
Maronites
Mandates
Which Middle Eastern city claims to be the oldest continuously inhabited city in the world?
Amman, Jordan
Damascus, Syria
Istanbul, Turkey
Jerusalem, Israel
The major city of Lebanon that was built on an island was . . .
Jerusalem
Bekaa
Damascus
Tyre
Beirut
Who built a causeway to access and destroy the people of Tyre?
Yasser Arafat
Mahmoud Abbas
Alexander the Great
Kemal Atatürk
Bashar al-Assad
The area of low hills in Israel between the Plain of Philistia and the Lebanese Mountains is called . . .
Pontic Hills
Syrian Highlands
Shephelah
Hills of Jezreel
What is Israel's largest port and second-largest city?
Amman
Gaza
Haifa
Tel Aviv
Jerusalem
The coastal strip of land in the southwest that Israel won in the Six-Day War is . . .
the Gaza Strip
the Golan Heights
the West Bank
the Negev
Into which body of water does the Jordan River empty?
Dead Sea
Gulf of Aqaba
Mediterranean Sea
Sea of Galilee
Red Sea
What is the main mountain, rising above Jerusalem, in the mountains of Judah west of the Jordan River?
Mount Carmel
Mount Meron
Mount of Olives
Mount Tabor
The flat-topped, steep-sided mountain fortress in which Jewish Zealots held out against the Romans before eventually committing suicide is . . .
Masada
Intifada
Knesset
Kibbutz
What is the religion of the Jews?
Judaism
Orthodoxy
Talmudism
Zionism
Roman Catholicism
The narrow, arid area of southern Israel bordering the Mediterranean Sea that Israel captured during the Six-Day War but later turned over tho the Palestinians is . . .
the Golan Heights
the Gaza Strip
Goshen
Tyre
Turkey is a chokepoint at the crossroads of what three regions?
Africa
Asia
Europe
the Mediterranean
the Middle East
What are the two straits that separate Turkey from Europe?
the Aegean Strait
the Bosporus Strait
the Dardanelles Strait
the Strait of Gibraltar
the Marmara Strait
What word describes a place whose location controls movement of goods and peoples between two or more areas?
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Given both its size and its influence on history, by what name has Turkey often been called?
(a)
What is the largest city of the Middle East?
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What ethnic minority populates the southeastern border of Turkey?
(a)
What country controlled the mandate of Syria?
(a)
Which country was given control of Syria after World War I?
(a)
What ancient city was the capital of the Phoenician empire?
(a)
What is Israel's largest port and second-largest city?
(a)
Into which body of water does the Jordan River empty?
(a)
What connects the Sea of Galilee to the Dead Sea?
(a)
Where did Jewish Zealots make their last stand against the Romans?
(a)
What is the religion of the Jews called?
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Which city did the Edomites carve out of the salmon-pink rock cliffs in Jordan?
(a)
Turkey is a chokepoint at the crossroads of what three regions?
(a)
Name one of the two straits that separate Turkey from Europe.
(a)
Which Middle Eastern city claims to be the oldest continuously inhabited city in the world?
(a)
Because most of the events recorded in Scripture took place in the region often called Palestine, what do both Jews and Christians call the area?
(a)
Which highlands area has been a point of frequent dispute on the border between Israel and Syria?
(a)
What is the name of the Hebrew parliament in Jerusalem?
(a)
What great archeological find did a Bedouin shepherd boy discover in some caves?
(a)
What is the name of the entire crescent-shaped region of the Levant with the river valleys of Mesopotamia?
(a)
What is the main mountain, rising above Jerusalem, in the mountains of Judah west of the Jordan River?
(a)
Match each country with its capital city.
Cyprus
Nicosia
Jerusalem
Amman
Beirut
Damascus
Match each country with its capital city.
Israel
Nicosia
Jerusalem
Amman
Beirut
Damascus
Match each country with its capital city.
Jordan
Nicosia
Jerusalem
Amman
Beirut
Damascus
Match each country with its capital city.
Lebanon
Ankara
Jerusalem
Amman
Beirut
Damascus
Match each country with its capital city.
Syria
Ankara
Jerusalem
Amman
Beirut
Damascus
Match each country with its capital city.
Turkey
Ankara
Jerusalem
Amman
Beirut
Damascus
Match each description with the correct answer choice.
What is the European portion of Turkey?
Thrace
Asia Minor
the Levant
Mesaoria
Anatolia
Match each description with the correct answer choice.
What is another name for Asia Minor?
Thrace
Anatolia
the Levant
Mesaoria
Dardanelles
Match each description with the correct answer choice.
What is the coastal plain that lies along the eastern Mediterranean?
Thrace
Anatolia
the Levant
Mesaoria
Asia Minor
