Physical Geo
A large desert region that is surrounded by the Red Sea, Persian Gulf, and Arabian Sea.
What is the Arabian Peninsula?
Belief in one god.
What is monotheism?
The most common ethnic group in the Middle East.
What are Arabs?
This body of water is where much of the oil in SW Asia is found.
What is the Persian Gulf?
Belief in more than one god.
What is polytheism?
Largest desert on the Arabian Peninsula.
What is the Arabian Desert?
Religion established by Abraham and Moses and based on the Hebrew Bible.
What is Judaism?
The most common ethnic group in Iran.
What are Persians?
What is crude oil?
One example of a traditional livelihood practiced by people in SW Asia.
What is farming, herding livestock, or fishing?
It's a vital waterway for trade between the Arabian Sea and Mediterranean Sea.
What is Suez Canal?
Religion based on the New Testament.
What is Christianity?
Most people in SW Asia are at or below _____ years old.
What is 15?
Petroleum dependency in SW Asia is a problem due to the sudden rise and fall of oil _______ on the world market.
What are prices?
Jewish prophet or messenger of God acknowledged by both Christians and Muslims.
Who is Abraham?
It's a fertile plain created by sediments (soils) deposited by flooding rivers.
What is alluvial plain?
Hebrew word for the Hebrew Bible or Old Testament.
What is Tanakh?
The most common ethnic group on the Anatolian Peninsula.
What are the Turks?
This happens to resource rich countries whose reliance on exporting the resource produces lack of economic diversity or wealth inequalities.
What is the resource curse?
Islam's holiest city, which Muslims pray to 5 times each day.
What is Mekkah?
It's known as the land between the rivers and was created by a flood plain?
What is Mesopotamia?
The holy book for Muslims.
What is the Quran?
The country in SW Asia with the most "complex ethnic and linguistic makeup".
What is Afghanistan?
Petroleum production has caused wars over oil that have invited participation by _____.
What are foreign countries?
Country in SW Asia that has the fastest growing population due to immigration.
What is Qatar?