Geography Final   By what name is the region of Southeast Asia and Northern Africa commonly known by? Which countries comprise the Maghreb of SW Asia/North Africa? By what name is the eastern Mediterranean region of SW Asia and N

1. Which countries comprise the Maghreb of SW Asia/North Africa?

Morocco, Algeria, Tunaisa

2. By what name is the eastern Mediterranean region of SW Asia and N. Africa known?

the Levant

3. Pastorial nomadism in SW Asia and N. Africa is what?

common in arid areas

4. Which of the following statements most accurately describes the pattern of domestication in SW Asia and N. Africa?

experimentation with wild wheat and barley 10,000 years ago led to farm settlements and domestication of cattle, sheep, and goat

5. What is the dominant factor in the location of the population settlements in N. Africa and SW Asia?

water

6. What is brain drain?

this occurs when bright young people migrate to foreign lands in search of better jobs

7. What is a medina?

the walled urban core of an Islamic city; it is dominated by a central mosque

8. Why is the region of SW Asia and N. Africa considered a culture hearth?

it was an early center for agriculture,
it was the center for 3 major world religions,
it was an early center for several great civilizations

9. Why have many European countries encouraged immigrants of foreign populations into their borders in the recent past?

there were experiencing low or negative growth, and needed immigrants to fill gaps in the labor force

10. What even has been an important cause of the surge of immigration to European countries such as Germany since the beginning of the 1980s?

the collapse of the Soviet Union