http://faculty.bemidjistate.edu/mlawrence/worldregionalf15.pdf

GEOG 1400: World Regional Geography, Fall 2015

Updated Tuesday, 15 September

Getting ready for Exam 1 (WEDNESDAY 16 September [note changed date]:

Chapters 6 and 9, as well as Modules 5.1.6, 6.1, and

9.1, together with additional readings

(Akwagyiram, El Sherif, Symmes, Wehrey, and

Williamson), associated lectures and video.)

This exam will cover materials presented between 24th August and 14th September.

The textbook contains more material than could be covered in lecture and your

understanding of some of this additional material will certainly be examined.

However, in general it is probably best to use the lectures as a guide to reading the

text for a closer investigation of concepts, issues, and basic factual information that

is likely to appear on this exam. While it may be covered in later parts of the course,

material covered on the following pages of the textbook will NOT be reviewed in

this exam:

Pages 7-16 (“1.2 The Language of Maps” and “1.3 New Geographic

Technologies and Careers”) of chapter 1 (Objectives and tools of world

regional geography).

Pages 213-219 (“Villager, Pastoral Nomad, Urbanite”) and the “What does al-

Qa’ida Want?” boxes on pages 236-237 of chapter 6 (A Geographic Profile of

the Middle East and North Africa).

Pages 467 – 472 (“Cultural and historical geographies”), 478 (“Cleaning up

dirty diamonds”), and 479 (“Microcredit”) of Chapter 9 (“A Geographic

Profile of Sub-Saharan Africa”).

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Apartheid

arable

The fate of the Aral Sea and the Karakalpaks

Aswan High Dam

Concentrated Solar Power

The Devil’s Gardens

Ebola

The Empty Quarter

The Grand Ergs

Great Rift Valley

HIV-AIDS

ISIL (often wrongly called ISIS)

“Kurdistan”

Northern Sinai Agricultural Development Project

The Nubian Sandstone Aquifer

“Red-Dead Peace Conduit”

Russification

“Sahara Forest Project”

The Silk Road

Southeastern Anatolia Project

SSuueezz CCaannaall

Sunni vs. Shi’a Islam (and the 5-part regional geography of Islam)

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lectures, readings, or the video, only some will appear on the exam.

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As of Tuesday, 15 September, writing the exam is complete. For this course,, all

exams will be closed-book and will consist of {a} multiple-choice, {b} completion

questions, and {c} map-identification questions. Multiple-choice questions will

primarily cover lecture material, with a few rehearsing textbook material not

covered in lectures but relevant to the unit involved in any given exam. Completion

questions will primarily cover the additional readings assigned for a given unit

available at the class website- COMPLETION QUESTIONS ARE TO BE ANSWERED ON

THE EXAM ITSELF (with other questions completed on a standard Scantron form

with your name on it). Finally, some of the map-identification questions will be of

the multiple-choice variety, while some will be of the completion variety. Each

exam is worth up to 200 points and covers only material presented since the

previous exam date.

The exam is starting to look like this:

There will be 60 regular-credit questions and 34 extra-credit questions (of

the same value). Thus, this 200-point exam includes a total of 313 points (i.e.,

113 points of extra credit)!

The regular-credit portion of the exam looks like this:

There are 19 map questions about Africa and the Middle East, all

multiple-choice.

These are followed by 16 general lecture and textbook multiple-choice

questions.

Next, there are 8 lecture and textbook completion (“fill-in-the-blank”)

questions.

At the end of the regular exam are 16 multiple-choice and completion

questions drawn from the additional assigned readings.

The extra-credit portion of the exam looks like this:

Then there are 8 completion questions regarding the maps of Africa

and the Middle East already seen.

These are followed by another 14 general lecture and textbook

multiple-choice questions.

Finally, there are 13 map questions about Central Asia, all multiple-

choice.

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Question 1. Most of Algeria’s population and nearly all of its agriculture compete for use of the same habitable land, found in which of the following regions?

a. The Aegean Sea coast. b. Cappadocia. c. The Gafsa Plateau. d. The Jordan River valley. e. The Nile River floodplain. f. The Tell. g. Rub al-Khali. h. The Sahara. i. Between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers.

Question 2. After reading your textbook, you can conclude one of the following statements is FALSE; namely, that…

a. …the modern state of Israel was created by the Jews. b. …illegal Jewish settlements continue to be built in certain areas

despite formal efforts to create a Palestinian state there. c. …European and American powers that fought the Cold War against

Soviet communism- in part by condemning construction of the Berlin Wall that divided the German people for 28 years- have largely ignored Israel’s construction of a 400-mile, 26-foot high wall that economically isolated many Palestinians from their farmland and other natural resources.

d. …if a Palestinian state were created on the West Bank today, it would be independent in name only since Israeli military occupation has divided it into multiple, noncontiguous areas.

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Designers of the proposed “Sahara Forest Project” intend to Question #3 in order to Question #4.

Question 3. a. use the surplus biomass of North Africa’s vast rainforests b. capture the solar heat absorbed by North African deserts c. organize a sustainable logging program for the countries of

North Africa d. drain the few remaining wetlands of North Africa

Question 4.

a. carefully increase land space available for relief of severe urban crowding in the region

b. rapidly create a market of biofuels for export to the European Union

c. redirect the energy created in the process to northern Europe to help remaining forests there survive global climate change that made last winter the coldest in 30 years

d. desalinate ocean water in order to irrigate North Africa’s deserts

e. plant 6 million genetically-engineered drought-resistant trees in order to stop the spread of the desert, especially since increased sandstorm activity threatens Europe’s freshwater supply and alpine ski industries

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Question 5. According your textbook, _______________ is one of few majority-Muslim countries in the world to have granted equal rights to women, even before the “Arab Spring”.

ANSWERS