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The Northeast (CH 17 GEO)
Quiz by Paul Bachman
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- Q1
a very narrow part of the Turkish Straits that opens on its eastern end to the Sea of Marmara
marsh
the Dardanelles
Tehran
culture hearth
30s - Q2
a meeting in Iran that produced an international treaty to monitor and preserve wetland resources
Ramsar Convention
cuneiform
Mesopotamia
Anatolian Plateau
30s - Q3
the practice of livestock farming, which may have begun in what is now Iraq
marsh
Tehran
pastoralism
the Dardanelles
30s - Q4
a place whose name means “land of the Aryans”
culture hearth
the Dardanelles
Tehran
Iran
30s - Q5
a system of wedge-shaped symbols pressed into clay tablets
cuneiform
marsh
culture hearth
pastoralism
30s - Q6
a place that nurtures the growth of a new culture that grows and spreads to other places
cuneiform
Ramsar Convention
culture hearth
Tehran
30s - Q7
an endangered natural resource that provides freshwater and floodwater containment in a typically grassy, wet area
marsh
the Dardanelles
Tehran
culture hearth
30s - Q8
the homeland of the ancient Sumerians known as “the land between two rivers”
Anatolian Plateau
Mesopotamia
cuneiform
Ramsar Convention
30s - Q9
a central massif that lies at a high elevation between Turkey’s Pontic
and Taurus mountains
Ramsar Convention
cuneiform
Anatolian Plateau
Iran
30s - Q10
a city in which air pollution has caused thousands of deaths
Tehran
Ramsar Convention
Iran
culture hearth
30s - Q11
Due to high mountains that block moisture from major bodies of water, much of the inland areas of the Northeast experiences which type of climate?
subtropical
arid or semi-arid
tropical
Mediterranean
30s - Q12
Which of the following very active fault lines is about 750 miles (1200 km) in length and extends across much of Turkey?
East Aritrean
Eurasian
San Andreas
North Anatolian
30s - Q13
Today the majority of people living in the Northeast region are
Ottoman
Orthodox Christian
Muslim
Jewish
30s - Q14
Iran and Iraq joined with several oil-producing neighbors to form OPEC, which agreed to regulate oil production in order to
keep oil prices high
prevent harm to wetlands
lower oil prices
impose safety restrictions
30s - Q15
The Persian Empire arose to the east of Mesopotamia, across the Zagros Mountains in present-day ____________________, before spreading across the region.
Kurdistan
Iraq
Turkey
Iran
30s