The document provides a review of terms for a World Geography final exam, including definitions for various geographic locations, climate types, landforms, and historical events. It defines key concepts such as Confucianism, pandemics, mosques, dynasties, commodities, rift valleys, the Berlin Conference, Mao Zedong, and the Nile River. The review covers topics in physical geography, cultural geography, and world history from various regions including Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Europe, and the Pacific Islands.

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.