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M. E. Tes Questions
1-7, vocab 2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is the impact of water pollution on the Middle East? | People don't have enough access to clean water, There isn't enough clean water to begin with, but polluted water makes it much worse. |
| Where does most of the water in the Middle East get distributed? | irrigation |
| How do dams affect countries that downstream on rivers? | By the time the water gets to them, it us usually polluted, and much less of an amount than it would have been. |
| How does the distribution of oil affect the standard of living in Middle Eastern countries? | The standard has risen. Infrastructure and literacy rates have improved. These improvements have not taken place in nations without oil. Israel is the only exception. |
| How do rivers and deserts affect the population and where people live? | People must live near water sources to irrigate crops and have access to clean drinking water. |
| What is the difference between an ethnic group and a religious group? | An ethnic group of people share a learned belief and practice of culture passed down through generations. A religious group shares a common belief system but is not necessarily composed of a single ethnic group. |
| How are Judaism, Islam, and Christianity similar? | They are all monotheistic. They all consider Jerusalem to be a holy land. They all accept the concept of judgement day, sin, and repentance. |
| How are Judaism, Christianity, and Islam different? | Judaism believes God will send a prophet but hasn't yet. Islam and Judaism believe Jesus was a prophet, not a savior as Christians think. Christians believe in resurrection. Islam teaches Jewish and Christian prophets were sent messages by Allah |
| What do the Sunni Muslims believe? | That their leader should be elected from those most capable of the job |
| What do the Shia Muslims believe? | That power after muhammed's death should have passed to a member of his family. Shia Muslims continue to honor the bloodlines. |
| What are most muslims... Sunni or Shia? | Sunni |
| How does a country's standard of living affect literacy rates? | Very positive impact! The two are good for each other. The higher the literacy rate, the better standard of living. Educated people have the ability to make more money. |
| GNP | Gross National Product-value of all goods and services that a country produces in 1 year inside the country |
| GDP | Gross Domestic Product-values of all goods and services within a country |
| Market economy | an economy in which the government owns most of the industries and makes most of the economic decisions |
| Traditional Economy | exchange of goods or services based on custom and tradition |
| exodus | Hebrews escape from ancient Egypt |
| refugees | people who are forced to leave home because of persecution, war, or a natural disaster |
| theocracy | a government ruled by religious leadership |
| Taliban | Islamic militants that ruled over Afghanistan and enforced strict Islamic law |
| Al-Queda | A group of radical Islamic terrorists based in Afghanistan |
| monarchy | A state ruled by a monarch who reigns over a territory for life by heredity |
| communism | a totalism system of government in which a single party controls state owned means of production |
| embargo | a formal hault to trade with a particular country for economic or political reasons |
| quota | a limit to the number or amount of a foreign product |
| pilgrimmage | a journey to a sacred place or shrine |
| hajj | the religious pilgrimmage of Muslims to Mecca |
| renewable resources | materials needed and valued by people such as soils and forests. CAN be reproduced by the Earth's natural processes |
| non-renewable resources | resources that CAN'T be replaced by the earth's natural process, such as oil and coal. |
| tarriff | a tax placed on goods coming into one country from another |
| currency exchange | the procedure for determining the value of on country's currency in terms of another country's currency |
| WMD | Weapon of Mass Destruction-weapons that cause as much damage as possible and take the most human life. Examples are nuclear weapons and chemical weapons |
| PLO | Plaestinian Liberation Organization-a radical group of Palestinians whose goal is to gain control of the former land of Palestine by force. |
| economics | how individuals and societies seek to satisfy wants and needs through incentives, choices, and allocation of scarce resources. |
| Literacy rate | The number of people in an area that can read and write |
| Coalition | An alliance, especially a temporary one of people, groups, or nations |
| Regime | A government in power |
| Population density | A measure of the average population of an area per square mile. |
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