Exam Vocab

Question 1

The region of the surface and atmosphere of the earth

Answer 1

Biosphere

Question 2

All the water On the earth’s surface such as Seas and lakes

Answer 2

Hydrosphere

Question 3

The crust or upper mantle of the earth surface

Answer 3

Lithosphere

Question 4

The envelope of gases surrounding the earth

Answer 4

Atmosphere

Question 5

Imaginary line drawn around the middle of the earth is equally distant from both poles

Answer 5

equator

Question 6

The earth zero of longitude

Answer 6

The prime meridian

Question 7

Exact spot on Earth’s surface expressed by using longitude and latitude

Answer 7

Exact location

Question 8

A person who studies the weather of Earth’s atmosphere

Answer 8

Meteorologist

Question 9

A person who studies the earth and its features and also the people that live on it

Answer 9

Geologist!!

Question 10

scientists that deal with the physical and biological properties of the seas and oceans

Answer 10

Oceanographer

Question 11

A person who makes maps!!

Answer 11

Cartographer

Question 12

There are four of these directions north south east west!!!!!

Answer 12

Cardinal directions

Question 13

The four cardinal direction

Answer 13

Intermediate directions

Question 14

A map design show government boundaries of the country and usually their capitals

Answer 14

Political map

Question 15

The wearing away of appeared or texture

Answer 15

Weathering

Question 16

Glacier episode during the past geological period

Answer 16

Ice Age

Question 17

Piece of land, surrounded by water it is projected out into a body of water

Answer 17

Penninsula

Question 18

A group of islands

Answer 18

Archipelago

Question 19

What is water held underground in the soil

Answer 19

Groundwater

Question 20

Along the wave caused by earthquakes under the water

Answer 20

Tsunami

Question 21

About 23° south of the Equater

Answer 21

Tropic of Cancer Capricorn

Question 22

What is a line of latitude about 23° north of the equator

Answer 22

Tropic of Cancer

Question 23

One of the two times in the year the summer solstice or the winter solstice when the sun reaches the highest or the lowest point

Answer 23

Solstice

Question 24

What is a monotheistic religion of the Jews based on the laws revealed to Moses and recorded in the Torah

Answer 24

Judaism

Question 25

What is the religion of the Muslims It is a monotheistic faith It revolves around their God Muhammad and their profit Allah

Answer 25

Islam

Question 26

What is the name of the sacred book of Islam

Answer 26

Koran

Question 27

A follower of the Islam religion

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Muslim

Question 28

What is the belief that there only one God

Answer 28

Monotheism

Question 29

The fertile area of land between the Tigris and Euphrates

Answer 29

Fertile crescent

Question 30

The mass murder of Jews under the Nazi during the period 1941 45

Answer 30

Holocaust

Question 31

Tall slender tower technically part of the Mosque with the balcony from which calls Muslims to pray

Answer 31

Minaret

Question 32

What is the system of government in which priests rule

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Theocracy

Question 33

What is a religious journey

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Hajj

Question 34

What are the Sahel Countries

Answer 34

Mauritania Mali Burkina Faso Niger chad

Question 35

The believe of supernatural powers that organisms animate the material universe

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Animism

Question 36

What is a long steep slope one at the edge of plateau

Answer 36

Escarpment

Question 37

What is title of a former monarch of Iran

Answer 37

Shah

Question 38

A market part or part of the market is Arabic city

Answer 38

Suq

Question 39

Palestine liberation organization

Answer 39

PLO

Question 40

What is a settlement in Israel play settlers share all their property and make good as well as carry out farming

Answer 40

Kibbutz

Question 41

The five duties expected of every Moslem

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Five pillars of Islam

Question 42

What is geography

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Is the study of Earth and its people

Question 43

What are the seven continents of the world

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North Africa Europe Asia Australia Africa South Africa Antarctica

Question 44

What are the two main branches of geography

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Physical geography and also human geography

Question 45

What are the five parts of a map

Answer 45

Title compass Rose map key scale symbols

Question 46

What are the five themes of geography?

Answer 46

Location, place, human environment interaction, movement, region.