Geography 105
Which of the following statements is false?
A. The majority of Africa's population is engaged in agriculture for their livelihoods.
B. Most of Africa's political boundaries were drawn at the beginning of the colonial period with little regard for the continent's patterns of human occupancy.
C. The African continent contains about half of the world's refugee population.
D. Due to Africa's difficult agricultural environment, numerous environmental hazards, diseases and periodic food shortages, the continent's population growth rate is below the worldwide average.
E. Africa today contains no colonial countries.
D. Due to Africa's difficult agricultural environment, numerous environmental hazards, diseases and periodic food shortages, the continent's populations growth rate is below the worldwide average.
The major difference between an endemic and a pandemic disease is that..
a pandemic disease moves through the population of a large area of the world, whereas an endemic disease is simply present, affect the lives of millions of people in a negative way.
The country in Equatorial Africa with significant oil supplies and an upper and middle income economy is
Gabon
T/F
Under the terms of the separate development program, South Africa's land was divided equally between the majority Africans and the minorities white
fasle
T/F
Eritrea is a region located in Sudan that has been fighting a war of independence since 1956.
false
The three largest countries in population size in North Africa/Southwest Asia are:
Egypt, Iran, and Turkey
The city of ______ is located at the confluence of the White and Blue Nile serves as the capital of _____.
Khartoum/Sudan
Which of the following countries has cooperated with the US efforts in Iraq and is located on a peninsula in the Persian Gulf?
Qatar
T/F
Mesopotamia, that ancient culture hearth and crossroads, was the "land between the rivers," between Arabia
false
T/F
The wealth from oil income has been distributed evenly among different regions of Saudi Arabia.
false
T/F
The ancient name of Iran was Persia, whose pre-1979 monarchy was more than 2,500 years old.
true
The ____ Revolution of the 1960's introduced "miracle" varieties of wheat and rice that significantly increased productivity of these crops.
Green
T/F
South Asia contains more than 20% of the world's population, but 2/3's of its poorest inhabitants.
true
Which of the following is NOT one of the legacies of European colonization in Africa?
A. positioning of national boundaries
B. the development of transport patterns
C. the location of capitals
D. the development of the urban system
E. the development of democracies in most African states
E. the development of democracies in most African states
The country in Equatorial Africa with significant oil supplies and an upper middle income economy is:
Gabon
This African country is a former French colony, built a Roman Catholic basilica to rival St. Peter's in Rome, and has recently seen a slowing of the economy:
Ivory Coast
Which of the following is not included in North Africa/Southwest Asia?
A. Pakistan B. Iran C. Iraq
D. Israel E. Turkey
A. Pakistan