World Geo test II?

Question

Thanks you two that answered! I got this test due tomorrow with like 60 questions... usually we get our book but my teacher is a dick to me...

Here are a couple more if any body wouldn't mind helping me answer...
1) The Qizilqum and Garagum are both...

2)Yemen is located on the ___ Peninsula?

3)___ is a way of life for peopling living in the steppe climate zone ( Pastroralism, Mining, Growing crops, Tourism )

4)New oil reserves have been found (egypt, unders the caspian sea, in the Gaza Strip, all of the above )

5) The Tigris and Euphrates Rivers run thought ( what country(s) )

6)The Aswan High Dam prevents ___ soil from reaching the Nile Delta. ( alluvial, wadi, highlands, phosphate ? )


thanks again :)

Answer 1

You need to learn to do your own research! It's actually not difficult. I knew these answers (I teach high school earth science), but checked them to give you some websites. How did I find the websites? GOOGLE!
#1 Googled Qizilqum;
#2 Googled Yemen;
#3 Googled steppes (but to really find the answer you'd have to dig deeper);
#4 Googled Caspian (because I already knew it, but if you Googled all the choices, you'd find the answer anyway);
#5 Googled Tigris & Euphrates
#6 Googled Aswan Dam
The point is, research is no longer as difficult as it was when I was in high school. In those days, you had to go to the library and look through the encyclopedia or the card case or talk to the librarian, or even ... read your textbook!
These days you can do it all in a flash with your computer and internet connection. Try it - you might enjoy it!

1] " The vast Qizilqum (Turkic for "red sand") Desert, shared with southern Kazakstan, dominates the northern lowland portion of Uzbekistan."
"The Karakum Desert, also spelled Kara-Kum and Gara Gum (“Black Sand”), is a desert in Central Asia. It occupies about 70 percent of the area of Turkmenistan."
They are both LARGE ASIAN DESERTS. [1]

2] Yemen is a Middle Eastern country located on the Arabian Peninsula in Southwest Asia. Yemen is composed of former North and South Yemen. [2]
Yemen is on the ARABIAN Peninsula

3] "In physical geography, a steppe is a plain without trees (apart from those near rivers and lakes); it is similar to a prairie, although a prairie is generally considered as being dominated by tall grasses, while short grasses are said to be the norm in the steppe. It may be semi-desert, or covered with grass or shrubs or both, depending on the season and latitude. The term is also used to denote the climate encountered in regions too dry to support a forest, but not dry enough to be a desert. The world's largest zone of steppes, often referred to as "the Great Steppe", is found in central Russia and neighbouring countries in Central Asia. The Pontic steppe stretches from Ukraine in the west to the Ural Mountains and the Caspian Sea. To the east of the Caspian Sea, the steppes extend through Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan to the Altai, Koppet Dag and Tian Shan ranges. The vast Eurasian Steppe, as it is called, incorporates all of these steppes. The area is bordered in the north, on the eastern side of the Urals, by the forested West Siberian Plain taiga, extending nearly as far as the Arctic Ocean." [3]
Found lots of webpages about steppes but none said that the primary way of life in most was PASTORALISM.

4] "As well as recently discovered oil fields, large natural gas supplies are also in evidence, though further exploration is needed to define their full potential." [4]
CASPIAN SEA

5] The Tigris begins in Turkey, forms the eastern border of Syria and runs into the Gulf through Iraq.
The Euphrates begins in Turkey, flows through the middle of Syria, empties into the Gulf after flowing through Iraq. [5]
TURKEY & IRAQ, + SYRIA

6] "The silt which was deposited in the yearly floods, and made the Nile floodplain fertile, is now held behind the dam. " [6]
ALLUVIAL
[Alluvium (from the Latin, alluvius, "to wash against") is soil or sediments deposited by a river [... and] is typically made up of a variety of materials, including fine particles of silt and clay ... Areas where more particles are dropped are called alluvial or flood plains ... [and] it is in the flood plains and deltas of large rivers [such as the Nile] that large, geologically-significant alluvial deposits are found.]

Do your own homework once in a while! (Smile)