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Worksheets1st Semester FINAL review - Social Studies- Unit 2-5
Total questions: 90
Worksheet time: 48mins
Covering more than 1 million square miles, the _______________ peninsula is the largest peninsula in the world.
Asian
Arabian
Malay
United States
Which rivers flow through Turkey and empty into the Persian Gulf?
Jordan and Tigris
Jordan and Euphrates
Tigris and Euphrates
Red and Jordan
Name the country label A.
Afghanistan
Isreal
Gaza Strip
Iraq
Name the country labeled B.
Turkey
Israel
Syria
Iraq
Name the country labeled C.
Kuwait
Iran
Iraq
Israel
Name the country labeled D.
Iran
Iraq
Kuwait
Saudi Arabia
Name the country labeled E.
Turkey
Iran
Iraq
Saudi Arabia
Name the country labeled G.
Israel
Saudi Arabia
Turkey
Kuwait
Name the country labeled H.
Syria
Iran
Saudi Arabia
Iraq
the narrow strip of land between Israel, Egypt, and the Mediterranean Sea
It is home to millions of Palestinian Refugees who fled there during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.
There are frequent conflicts between its Arab inhabitants and Israeli Jews
Gaza Strip
Persian Gulf
West Bank
Suez Canal
Located on the west bank of the River Jordan
It is the larger and more populous Palestinian territory.
The unresolved issue of a Palestinian Homeland has led to conflict between Palestinian Arabs and Israeli Jews.
Gaza Strip
West Bank
Persian Gulf
Strait of Hormuz
Connects the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea.
It is an important trade route.
Strait of Hormuz
Persian Gulf
Suez Canal
Arabian Sea
watering crops so they will continue
to grow when there is insufficient rainfall
irrigation
population density
pollution
unequal distribution
The uneven distribution or resources such as fresh water, arable land.
irrigation
pollution
population density
unequal distribution
Oil (made from deal organic material)
population density
petroleum
unequal distribution
population distribution
Which statement about ethnicity and religion is correct?
People who belong to the same ethnic group always follow the same religion.
People who practice the same religion usually have similar physical features.
People can decide which religion to follow, but they are born into their ethnic group.
People can decide which ethnicity they are, but they cannot change their religion.
Farrokh is a member of the ethnic group that makes up more than half of the population of Iran. To what ethnic group does Farrokh belong and what religion does he MOST LIKELY practice?
Farrokh is Kurdish and most likely practices Shia Islam.
Farrokh is Kurdish and most likely practices Sunni Islam.
Farrokh is Persian and most likely practices Shia Islam.
Farrokh is Persian and most likely practices Sunni Islam.
Which religion do MOST Arabs in Southwest Asia follow?
Judaism
Christianity
Shia Islam
Sunni Islam
In what way are Judaism, Christianity, and Islam similar?
They all teach that Muhammad was one of God's prophets.
They all teach that Abraham was one of God's prophets.
The Bible is considered the holiest book in each religion.
The Koran is considered the holiest book in each religion.
Because of its harsh climate, which country has to rely on desalination plants to provide most of its citizens’ drinking water?
Israel
Turkey
Saudi Arabia
Syria
The process of removing salt from salt water in order to make it suitable for farming and drinking is known as
Desalination
Naturalization
Absorption
Extraction
Which country’s water treatment plants have been damaged by decades of war?
Turkey
Syria
Saudi Arabia
Iraq
Which country has fought military battles over water rights to the Jordan River?
Israel
Iran
Afghanistan
Saudi Arabia
What are three major water problems in Southwest Asia?
Water shortages, unequal distribution, pollution
Flooding, pollution, dams
Too much ground water, aquifers, pollution
Water shortages, flooding, pollution
Disputes over what two natural resources are problematic for many Southwest Asian countries?
Oil and Water
Water and Diamonds
Diamonds and Natural Gas
Oil and Diamonds
This area holds one of the largest and most important oil fields in the world.
All of the countries that produce oil in that region depend on it as a shipping route.
Persian Gulf
Arabian Sea
Dead Sea
Red Sea
Which ethnic group is considered a minority in Southwest Asia and lost their homeland?
Arabs
Persians
Kurds
Palestinians
Which ethnic group makes up 90% of Southwest Asia's population?
Persians
Muslims
Arabs
Kurds
If Monique prays five times a day toward mecca and plans to go on a hajj in the next year, what religion is she likely to be?
Muslim
Christian
Jewish
Persian
What was the reason for the split with in Islam?
There is a difference in philosophy, one group believes in Jesus while the other group believes only in Muhammad.
One group believed that the religion should be based in the United States, while the other believed it should be based in SW Asia.
One group is polytheistic while the other group believes in one God.
After the death of Muhammad followers couldn't agree on leadership.
Which ethnic group mostly practices Sunni Islam?
Kurds
Arabs
Persians
Which nation invaded Kuwait in 1990?
Saudi Arabia
Afghanistan
Iraq
Iran
Which best describes the Palestinian Arabs’ view on the United States after the creation of Israel?
They were thankful for the US support during the creation of Israel.
They were angry with the US because the US supported Israel, their enemy, during the creation
of Israel.
They were angry that US invaded their land because it was granted by God and they needed
protection from non-Jewish governments.
They were angry that US invaded their land because they lived there for hundreds of year and
they were the original inhabitants of Palestine.
What caused the US to invade Afghanistan?
The War on Terrorism
The Holocaust
The creation of Israel
Zionism Uprising
What caused the US to invade Iraq?
The US believed Iraq was keeping all the oil for themselves
The US believed Iraq was protecting Al Qaeda’s leader in 2002
The US believed Iraq was taking over the Middle East
The US believed Iraq had weapons of mass destruction and connections to Al Qaeda
President Bush declared a War on Terrorism in response to which event?
Iraq refusing to cooperate in an UN investigation
The creation of Israel
Attack on US on 9/11/01
Invasion of Kuwait
What is the US’s main economic interest in Southwest Asia?
Gas
Natural Resources
Oil
Gold
Who was the President of Iraq's government?
Osama Bin Laden
Saddam Hussein
Al Qaeda
Ayatollah Khomeini
Which of the following BEST explains the concept of Zionism?
The idea that all religious groups should have their own states.
The plan to let Arabs and Jews share the land in Israel equally.
The belief that Jews deserved to return to their historical homeland.
The hope that all governments will be based on religious principles
When was Israel created?
1944.
1949
1941
1948
After the breakup of the Ottoman Empire, why did European partitioning lead to regional conflict in Southwest Asia (Middle East)?
There were few jobs available in the newly created countries.
New political boundaries were formed without considering the cultural differences of the people.
New political boundaries prevented people from immigrating to different areas
There were few natural resources available in the newly created countries
Who oversaw creating the new boundaries in Southwest Asia after the breakup of the Ottoman Empire?
The British and the French
The Germans and the Arabs
The Arabs and the British
The French and the Germans
What is the formal name of OPEC?
Oklahoma People Eat Chicken
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
Organization of Petroleum Exiting the Country
Oil People Expecting Country
What does gross domestic product measure?
How to measure a country
How much a person makes at their job
The dollar value of all goods and services a country produces in a year
The measurement of a country's size
The four factors of production are natural resources, human capital, Entrepreneurship, and __________________.
Income tax
Human taxes
capital goods
product goods
What does quota, the trade barrier, do?
limits the amount that can be imported
limits the amount that a country can make of a certain product
puts a tax on imported items
taxes products that are exported
If a country invest in human capital, their GDP will increase, what else will increase?
the number of people in their country
income taxes
the amount of children per household
literacy rate
What does Specialization mean?
a country makes a lot of products
a country exports and imports a lot of natural resources
when a country produces a product at the lowest possible cost and with the most efficiency
when a country makes too much of a product and sells it at a cheaper price
Which trade barrier restricts the quantity of items that are imported?
Embargo
Tariff
Quota
Tax
Who makes the majority if not all of the decisions in a command economy?
the government
the people
only the men
only the men over 21 years old
This is the name of the group that regulates the price and production of oil?
NATO
CATO
OPEC
OPP
In Israel, who meets with Knesset to choose the chief executive?
The President
The Prime Minister
The Legislature
The Judge
Which country was created in 1948, and recently changed from a parliamentary to a presidential democracy?
Turkey
Israel
Saudi Arabia
Iraq
What type of government does Israel have?
Presidential Democracy
Parliamentary Democracy
Autocracy
Absolute Monarchy
Who is the chief executive is Israel?
President
King
Prime Minister
Queen
What is the title of the chief executive in Turkey?
President
prime minister
King
Judge
What type of Government does Saudi Arabia have?
Presidential Democracy
Parliamentary Democracy
Absolute Monarchy
No kind of government
What is the Consultative Council?
It is the legislature is Turkey
It acts as the legislature in Saudi Arabia
It is the legislature in Israel
It is part of the executive branch in the United States
An eonomy where decisions are made at an individual, rather than a government level
Command Economy
Traditional Economy
Market Economy
Mixed Economy
A tax on imports
Embargo
Excange Rate
Trade
Tariff
What type of economic systems do most countries in the world have?
Mixed moving to Market
Market moving to Mixed
Command moving to Mixed
Command moving to Market
When countries invest in education and training
human capital goes down
human capital goes up
capital goods go up
capital goods go down
Mixed economies fall somewhere in between pure command and pure market on the continuum? True or False
True
False
A market economic system is based on what?
dicatorship by the government,
long-standing customs and values
what customers want to buy and producers want to sell
both what the citizens want and government regulated
What are the 3 questions countries need to ask in when setting up their economic system up?
what to produce, where to produce, how to produce
what to produce, who is going to produce it, how to produce
what kind of producing, where to produce, how to produce
what to produce, how to produce, for whom to produce
In 1973, certain countries stopped exporting oil to the United States in protest against the US support of Israel. What type of trade barrier is this?
mountain
tariff
quota
embargo
How did European involvement in Southwest Asia impact the region following WWI
Countries in Southwest Asia modeled their governments after Ottoman rulers
Europeans established a long period of peace in this region.
Borders were created without consideration of the ethnic or religious groups, creating conflict.
Many Europeans immigrated to Southwest Asia, making this area mostly Christian.
Which event led to conflict in the Middle East after WWI?
European Partitioning of Palestine
European Partitioning of the Middle East
Europeans ignoring the Sykes-Picot Agreement
Europeans stopping war in the region
How did the Arab world respond to the Creation of Israel?
They accepted its creation.
They rejected it's creation but did not go to war.
They rejected its creation and immediately went to war.
They accepted its creation but later changed their mind.
Newspaper Headlines:
“Iraqi Soldiers March into Kuwait”
“Liberation of Kuwait Begins”
“Iraqi Army Burns Oil Wells During Retreat”
The newspaper headlines describe which event in Southwest Asia (Middle East)?
Persian Gulf War
War on Terror
U.S. Invasion of Afghanistan
Operation Iraqi Freedom
Which led to the United states invading Afghanistan in 2001?
Leaders of Al-Qaeda responsible for 9/11 were hiding in Afghanistan.
Leaders of Al-Qaeda responsible for 9/11 had no connection to Afghanistan.
Leaders of Al-Qaeda responsible for 9/11 had a connection to Saddam Hussein.
Leaders of Al-Qaeda responsible for 9/11 were government leaders and officials in Afghanistan.
Why is this document important?
It showed Israel was independent from the United States.
It showed that Israel rejected imperialism.
It showed that Israel would be a British colony.
It showed that Britain would support a separate state for Jews.
What effect has the distribution of the Kurdish population had on the Kurdish nationalist movement
Many Kurds have blended in to their given countries and don't care about independence.
Many Kurds have continued to fight for nationalism to create an independent country.
Many Kurds fight to be accepted in the countries they currently live in.
Many Kurds feel no connection to one another and don't care about independence,
How are the Persian Gulf Conflict and Invasion of Iraq similar?
They both involved Kuwait.
They both involved stopping Saddam Hussein.
They both involved stopping weapons of mass destruction.
They both involved stopping terrorism.
Why did the United States invade Afghanistan?
To prevent Saddam Hussein from taking Kuwait.
Because Saddam Hussein planned the attacks on the Twin Towers and Pentagon.
Because Saddam Hussein was said to have weapons of mass destruction.
Because the terrorist group responsible for 9/11 was protected by Afghanistan.
How was the Persian Gulf Conflict and Invasion of Iraq different?
The Persian Gulf Conflict was about Kuwait, the Invasion of Iraq was about weapons of mass destruction.
The Persian Gulf Conflict was about weapons of mass destruction, the Invasion of Iraq was about Kuwait.
There was no difference between the Persian Gulf Conflict and Invasion of Iraq.
The Persian Gulf Conflict was about stopping terrorism, and the Invasion of Iraq was about Kuwait.
What does this map show?
Ottoman Partitioning of Palestine.
British Partitioning of Israel.
United Nations Partitioning of Israel.
United States Partitioning of Palestine.
Why did the Creation of Israel (1948) lead to conflict?
The land had been taken from the Palestinians.
The land had been taken from the Ottomans.
The land had been taken from the Jews.
The land was taken from Islamic countries.
Which statement BEST completes the diagram?
Persian Gulf War
Operation Iraqi Freedom
Invasion of Afghanistan
Operation Desert Storm
What might this article be about?
The U.S. military operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm
The property rights of indigenous peoples in Southwest Asia
The heightened tensions caused by the creation of the state of Israel
The conflicts caused by French and British imperialism in Southwest Asia
They are making plans to build a massive new empire
They are debating how they can benefit from trade with the Ottoman Empire.
They are partitioning the Middle Eastern region, based on natural resources they want.
They are partitioning the Middle Eastern region, based on input from local ethnic and religious groups.
