Environmental Issues
Geography of the Middle East
Religious Groups
Ethnic Groups
Miscellanious
100
This term refers to a severe lack of fresh water in a region to meet standard demands.
What is water scarcity?
100
What is this country?
What is Iran?
100
This type of group shares a common belief system in a God/gods, sacred texts, and holy days, but members can belong to many different cultures and races.
What is a religious group?
100
This term defines a group of people who share a common cultural background, language, history, and ancestral origin.
What is an ethnic group?
100
The discovery of this valuable liquid natural resource in the 20th century transformed the modern economies of Middle Eastern nations like Saudi Arabia and Kuwait.
What is oil?
200
Building these massive structures across rivers generates hydroelectric power, but it severely reduces the amount of water flowing to downstream neighbor countries.
What are dams?
200
What is this country?
What is Iraq?
200
Judaism, Christianity, and Islam all share a belief in only one God, making them examples of this type of religion.
What is monotheism?
200
Members of this largest ethnic group in the Middle East primarily speak Arabic and live across North Africa and the Arabian Peninsula.
What are Arabs?
200
This ancient city is considered holy and sacred by followers of all three major monotheistic religions: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
What is Jerusalem?
300
Industrial waste, sewage, and chemical runoff from agriculture are major causes of this environmental hazard in Middle Eastern river systems.
What is water pollution?
300
What is this country?
What is Turkey?
300
Followers of this Abrahamic religion are called Christians, and their sacred text is the Holy Bible.
What is Christianity?
300
This primary ethnic group of Iran speaks Farsi and makes up the vast majority of the country's population.
What are Persians?
300
Most of the land across the Middle East experiences this very dry climate type, receiving less than 10 inches of annual rainfall.
What is arid?
400
Turkey's construction of the dam project on these two historic rivers has led to severe water shortages downstream in Syria and Iraq.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
400
What physical feature is this?
What is the Red Sea?
400
Founded in the Middle East in the 7th century, this is the main religion practiced across most Middle Eastern countries today.
What is Islam?
400
This ethnic group predominantly lives in the nation of Israel and speaks Hebrew.
What are Jewish people (or Israelis)?
400
This famous man-made canal in Egypt connects the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea, allowing ships to bypass sailing all the way around Africa.
What is the Suez Canal?
500
Because freshwater is scarce, many Persian Gulf nations rely on this expensive process to remove salt from ocean water to make it drinkable.
What is desalination?
500
What is this physical feature?
What is the Red Sea?
500
Followers of Judaism are known as Jewish people, and their primary sacred text consists of the first five books of the Hebrew Bible, known as this.
What is the Torah?
500
This stateless ethnic group speaks Kurdish and primarily lives in a mountainous border region spanning parts of Turkey, Iraq, Iran, and Syria.
What are the Kurds?
500
True or False: You can change your ethnic group, but you cannot change your religious group.
What is False? (You can change your religion, but your ethnicity is based on birth/ancestry).
500
Pollution caused by toxic chemicals and trash dumped into rivers creates major health risks for people and destroys the habitats of local aquatic wildlife—a overall process known by this term.
What is water pollution?
500
The Strait of Hormuz is considered a strategic "chokepoint" globally because a massive percentage of this global natural resource travels through it by ship daily.
What is oil?
500
The major split within Islam into Sunni and Shia branches originally occurred over a disagreement regarding who should succeed this founder as leader of the Muslim community.
Who is Prophet Muhammad?
500
This group primarily follows Shia Islam?
What are Persians?
500
True or False: Sunni Muslims believe the leader (caliph) of Islam should be blood related and Shia Muslims believe the leader should be the most qualified candidate.
What is False, Shia= blood Sunni= most qualified?
600
Agriculture accounts for the majority of Middle Eastern water consumption, often leading to depleted underground water reserves known by this term.
What are aquifers?
600
Identify the narrow, strategic waterway highlighted below connecting the Persian Gulf to the Arabian Sea
What is the Strait of Hormuz?
600
While Christians worship in churches and Jewish people worship in synagogues, Muslims gather for prayer in these holy buildings.
What are mosques?
600
These two ethnic group primarily follows Sunni Islam
What is Kurds and Arabs?
600
What is the daughter of the prophet Muhammad named?
What is Fatimah?