DCA #4 Review 2023

About what percentage od the world;s know oil reserves are loacted in the Middle East and North Africa?

• 20%

• 45%

• 60%

• 90%

Why is French spoken in some countries of North Africa?

• Most North Africans receive their college educations in France.

• Some of the earliest settlers of North Africa arrived from France.

• France colonized parts of North Africa in the 1800s.

• French oil and petroleum plants are the largest employers in North Africa.

Most women in North Africa have jobs outside the home

• True

• False

Despite having limited freshwater sources, Israeli desalinaztion technology allows the population to cosume up to 50 percent sea water.

• True

• False

The economy of _____ is the most highly diversified amoung the nations of the subregion

• Syria

• Lebanon

• Jordan

• Israel

Followers of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam have a shared belief in

• the teachings of Jesus.

• the text of the New Testament.

• the concept of monotheism.

• the text of the Old Testament.

The ethnic and religous composition of the Eastern Mediterranean region, with the exception of Israel, primarily

• Jewish

• Christian

• Arab

• Armenian

What was an effect of the 1947 UN action to divide the former Ottoman and British colony of Palestine into a Jewish and Arab state?

• Jews accepted the plan, forming the independent state of Israel, while Arab Palestinians rejected it.

• Arab Palestinians accepted the plan, while Jews rejected it because they wanted control of all the land.

• Jews fled the region to escape violent conflict over the land, creating pockets of Jewish refugees in the neighboring states of Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria.

• Both Jews and Palestinian Arabs accepted the plan, though disputes over the land would continue for decades.

Which religion established the concept of monotheism?

• Islam

• Judaism

• Christianity

• Buddhism

Israel has augmented its limited natural freshwater resources by using ________ to make sea water drinkable.