CAIRO

Question 1

What is Egypt’s capital and metropolis?

Answer 1

Cairo

Question 2

What is the most populous city in Africa?

Answer 2

Cairo

Question 3

What is the most populous city in the entire Arab world?

Answer 3

Cairo

Question 4

In what country is located Cairo?

Answer 4

Egypt

Question 5

Where was the city built?

Answer 5

-On a plain in the heard of desert.

• 10km wide of fertile land

-Runs along the Nile River

Question 6

How do you call the place where a river separates into multiple branches and flows into a large body of water?

Answer 6

River Delta

Question 7

What did the historian Herodotus called Egypt in the 5th century BC?

Answer 7

The Gift of the Nile

Question 8

What is the Climate in Cairo?

Answer 8

Desert Climate or Dry

Precipitation is scarce (Limited in quantity)

Question 9

What is the average annual rainfall in Cairo?

Answer 9

24 mm

Question 10

What sea is the closest to Cairo?

Answer 10

Mediterranean Sea

Question 11

What cardinal point indicates the location of Cairo

In the World?

In Africa?

In Egypt?

Answer 11

North-East

North-East

North-East

Question 12

What geographic element is north of Cairo?

Answer 12

Nile Delta

Question 13

What geographic element is East of Cairo?

Answer 13

Arabian Desert

Question 14

What geographic element is West of Cairo?

Answer 14

Libyan Desert

Question 15

What is the type of soil in Cairo?

Answer 15

Fertile

Question 16

What is the relief in Cairo?

Answer 16

plain

Question 17

On which continent is located Cairo?

Answer 17

Africa

Question 18

Why is the population of Egypt concentrated in a small space?

Answer 18

Close to waterway and fertile soil

Question 19

Define Satellite cities

Answer 19

Small or medium sized cities located near a metropolis

Question 20

Define Mosque

Answer 20

Muslim place of worship

Question 21

What percentage of population live in Cairo?

Answer 21

10%

Question 22

Why did authorities decided to establish satellite cities?

Answer 22

To deal with overpopulation and to preserve fertile land

Question 23

What percentage of population live in the urban agglomeration of Cairo (metropolis)?

Answer 23

25%

Question 24

What are the 2 religions with the most people in the metropolis?

Answer 24

Muslims & Christians

Question 25

What do you call a very poor urban district that developed unofficially?

Answer 25

SLUM

Question 26

Do Slum have running water or sewage system?

Answer 26

No

Question 27

Why is there massive traffic jams in Cairo?

Answer 27

-Cairo is located on both banks of the Nile, not enough bridges to meet the needs - The streets were built without any clear plan with intersect in various places -Traffic laws are often ignored

Question 28

What do you call a road or highway that encircles a city or town?

Answer 28

Ring road

Question 29

Why were ring roads created?

Answer 29

To reduce traffic congestion in the downtown (To avoid the downtown area by going around it)

Question 30

How do people get around in Cairo?

Answer 30

Subway trains buses taxis water taxis cars

Question 31

What are the only 2 cities with subways in Africa?

Answer 31

Cairo (in Egypt) and Algiers (in Algeria)

Question 32

Why is it important for a metropolis to have an international airport?

Answer 32

Because it connects the city with the world

Question 33

Name 2 strategies that have been used to reduce traffic

Answer 33

- Subways - ring roads

Question 34

What is the consequence of urban sprawl?

Answer 34

Agricultural territory (fertile soil) is lost because people build cities on it

Question 35

What was the strategy to manage urban sprawl and protect farmland?

Answer 35

Instead of letting Cairo expand into fertile land used for farming, they redirected growth toward desert where the land is not used for agriculture. They call these cities "Satellite cities"

Question 36

Give the characteristics of SLUM

Answer 36

dwellings are: -tiny - close to each other -sometime on rooftops - sometime in cemeteries

Question 37

Give the characteristics of Satellite cities

Answer 37

- Rich people - they have water supply and sewers - they have transportation infrastructure

Question 38

What are the 2 obstacles limiting the development in Cairo?

Answer 38

-The desert (natural barrier, need to supply water and develop transportation infrastructure) -The Nile river (divides the city into 2 parts, not enough bridges)

Question 39

Give examples of social services?

Answer 39

- Hospitals - Schools and universities

Question 40

Give examples of cultural activities

Answer 40

- museums - television and radio stations

Question 41

What economic activities have generated many jobs?

Answer 41

-aeronautics -chemistry -electronics

Question 42

What city is the capital of Egypt?

Answer 42

Cairo

Question 43

What centres of political and economic power are found in Cairo?

Answer 43

- Egyptian government and various ministries - Embassies

Question 44

What centres of economic power are found in Cairo?

Answer 44

-Head offices of multinational businesses - Head offices of banks