Geography Themes
The theme being used when you describe the physical and cultural characteristics of somewhere
What is place?
The commodity that many Middle Eastern countries export
What is oil?
The natural resource that seems to be in short supply in many Middle Eastern countries
What is water?
The religion practiced by many countries in the Middle East
What is Muslim
The theme that would focus on reasons for and results of migration
What is movement?
The approximate percent of oil reserves located in the Middle Easst
What is 65%?
The three countries in the region that do not have to rely on other countries for water
What are Turkey, Egypt and Iran?
The country in the Middle East that seems to be the most at odds with the other countries
What is Israel?
The theme that focuses on relationships between humans and the land
What is human-environmental interaction
The European country that was first responsible for discovering oil in Iran
What is Great Britain?
The contested river between the Israelis and Syrians
What is the Jordan River
The word or words that can be used to classify the US relationship with many countries in the Middle East
What is confrontational, conflict
The two types of location
What are absolute and relative?
The group formed in the early 1900's whereby Iran and Great Britain shared oil revenue
What is the AIOC?
The activity in Turkey and Syria that seem to be compromising water supply in Iraq
What is putting dams on the Euphrates River
The empire that ruled much of the Middle East from the 19th century to the end of WWI
What was the Ottoman Empire
The theme that groups places based on a common geographic or cultural element
What is region?
The group of oil producing countries that were responsible for the oil embargo in the 1970's
What is OPEC?
Lack of water supply has resulted in many countries having what land form
What are deserts?
The agreement at the end of WWI that divided the land in the Middle East between the French and the British govnernmets
What is the Sykes-Picot Agreement