The movement of people from villages to cities to get jobs after the discovery of oil in this region is called...
What is urbanization
100
Describe the climate of Southwest Asia by precipitation and temperature?
Precipitation - Very little rainfall
Temperature - Warm, Comfortable all year
100
What are the three religions that call this region home?
What is Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
100
What are the two ethnic groups who claim the territory formerly known as Palestine? (We watched a video about this conflict)
What is Arabs and Israelis
100
This imaginary line is 0 degrees latitude and divides the north and south hemispheres
What is the equator
200
TRUE OR FALSE: Oil is a resource that is hard to come across in the region, while water is very easy to access.
FALSE; water is very scarce and oil is quite abundant
200
What type of vegetation grows in the semiarid climates that are outside of the arid deserts?
Small shrubs and grass
200
Between the three major religions that began here, which religion came first before the other two?
What is Judaism
200
After World War II, this group of people came to the region to escape Europe and start a settlement in the place where their religious identity began many years ago.
What is the Jews who survived the Holocaust in Europe
200
Which two landforms make traveling hard in Southwest Asia?
What is deserts and mountains
300
The United States has 5% of the world's population and consumes WHAT PERCENTAGE of the world's oil reserves?
What is 25% or 1/4
300
What is another name for Southwest Asia that this region is often called?
What is the Middle East
300
This religion began in the city of Mecca in 622 AD
What is Islam
300
This group of people became a "stateless nation" after the creation of Israel in 1948.
What is the Palestinians
300
Where does the majority of population of Southwest Asia live?
In the major cities and near coastlines
400
What do the letters OPEC stand for?
What is Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
400
This body of water gets its name from the high salt content in its waters.
What is the Dead Sea
400
Who was the prophet that started the Islam religion?
What is Muhammad
400
This group of people became a "statless nation" after failing to get a nation for themselves and were driven out of several countries by force, including Iraq
What is the Kurds
400
These two rivers begin in the mountains of Turkey and travel together across the region, emptying into the Persian Gulf
What are the Tigris and Euphrates rivers
500
What is the main priority of the OPEC nations? (what do they do?)
To control the prices of oil and the amount of oil extracted from their countries
500
Name all 5 Themes of Geography
Location, region, place, human-environment interaction, and movement
500
What city did Muhammad go to after leaving Mecca?
What is Yathrib, or Medina
500
What are the names of the TWO territories in dispute in the Arab-Israeli conflict?
What is the West Bank and the Gaza Strip
500
What is the name of the most popular desert in the region?