1. World Geography 1
Final Exam Review (Spring 09)
• A belief system that stresses the importance of order, education, and hierarchy is
Confucianism.
• A country that depends on only one export for its earnings is known as a one commodity
country.
• A desert in Israel that produces crops through extensive irrigation is the Negev.
• A disease affecting a large population over a wide geographic area is known as a
pandemic
• A holy place of worship for followers of Islam is called a mosque.
• A nation of people without a land to legally occupy is a stateless nation
• A ring like or chainlike group of islands is called an atoll.
• A series of rulers from a single family is a dynasty.
• A sub-continent is a landmass like a continent, only smaller.
• A tropical storm that occurs in the western Pacific is called a typhoon.
• A vessel with an extended float used for balance is called an outrigger canoe.
• Africa's highest peak is called Mount Kilimanjaro.
• All Muslims are expected to make a pilgrimage to Mecca.
• Also known as the Empty Quarter, the most famous desert in the Southwest Asia region
is the Rub al-Khali
• An agricultural or mining product that can be sold is called a commodity
• An archipelago is the term used to describe a group of islands.
• An area in the desert where water is found is known as an oasis.
• An area located on the edge of a desert, with a semiarid climate, is known as a steppe.
• An area with water that supports vegetation and wildlife in a desert is an oasis
• An atoll is an island formed from a peak of a submerged volcano.
• Aquifers contains store of underground water
• Australia's agricultural and sheep-raising endeavors have suffered greatly due to
overpopulation of rabbits.
• Better roads, railroads, and schools are all needed to improve Africa's economic
infrastructure.
• Developing African nations need to promote manufacturing and other industries in order
to diversify their economies.
• Failure of new businesses contributed to Russia's economic crash in 1998
• High islands are islands that are created by volcanoes
• In 1917, the rule of the czars was ended by the Russian Revolution
• In 1946, the U.S. government began to test nuclear bombs on Bikini Atoll
• Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia are known as the Baltic Republics
• Long, thin valleys that formed in Africa as continental plates pulled apart are called rift
valleys
• Low islands are islands that are created by coral reefs
• Oceania is the name given to a group of more than 20,000 Pacific Islands
• Olduvai Gorge is an archeological site that has contained the most continuous known
record of humanity over the past two million years.
• Pacific Islanders developed double-hulled sailing vessels called voyaging canoes.
• Palestinians Arabs who lived or still live in the area that is now called Israel

2. World Geography 2
Final Exam Review (Spring 09)
• Removing tariffs for neighboring countries and forming a common currency are two
ways to promote regional cooperation
• Russian leaders want to import, store, and treat the world's nuclear waste to revive the
Russian economy
• Subarctic climate zones occur along Mongolia's and China's northern borders with
Russia.
• The Aksum is an early civilization that emerged on the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean
• The Berlin conference was a meeting in which European nations determined rules for
dividing Africa
• The Caucasus Mountains form the border between Russia and Transcaucasia
• The Chinese rebelled against European control in the Boxer rebellion.
• The Communist leader of China until his death in 1976 was Mao Zedong.
• The fertile soil found on the Northern European Plain is known as chernozem
• The founder of the religion of Islam is Muhammad.
• The Gaza strip is a territory along the Mediterranean Sea, just northeast of the Sinai
Peninsula, that is occupied by Israel
• The Great Barrier reef is a huge chain of reefs and islands on the coast of Australia
• The Himalaya mountains help form a barrier that separates South Asia from the rest of
Asia.
• The largest desert in the world is the Sahara
• The leader who granted more economic and political freedom to the people of the former
USSR was Mikhail Gorbachev
• The longest river on the European continent is the Volga River
• The Masai were an East African ethnic group that lives on the grasslands of Kenya and
Tanzania
• The most common vegetation of the tropical zones of East Asia is the rain forest.
• The mountainous Nagorno-Karabakh region has caused conflict between Armenia and
Azerbaijan
• The name given to the 1923 natural disaster that killed 140,000 people in Tokyo is The
Great Kanto earthquake.
• The name of the volcano that is the best-known landform in Japan is Mount Fuji
• The oldest and deepest lake in the world is Lake Baikal
• The purpose of OPEC is to control worldwide prices for oil.
• The Russian leader who put an end to Mongol rule was Ivan the Great
• The Serengeti is a grassland in Africa that is ideal for grazing animals
• The source that provides 95 percent of Egyptians with their water is the Nile River
• The term that is used to describe the permanently frozen subsoil in Siberia is permafrost
• The term used to describe areas of China controlled by European nations is spheres of
influence.
• The tops of trees in a rain forest, about 150 feet above the ground is known as a canopy
• The type of desert that results when moisture from the soil evaporates and chemical salts
remains is an salt flat.
• The Ural Mountains is the mountain range that separates the Northern European and
West Siberian plains.

3. World Geography 3
Final Exam Review (Spring 09)
• The West bank is a strip of land on the west side of the Jordan River
• Unskilled laborers recruited to fill jobs in a country other than their own are called guest
workers
• When rivers flood, they deposit soil onto alluvial plains that become rich farmlands.