Choke Points
Climate
Vegetation
Language
River Systems
100
This canal links the Mediterranean with the Red Sea.
What is the Suez Canal
100
What is the cause of the large range of temperatures that can be experienced on the Arabian Peninsula?
What is the lack of moisture in the air.
100
What type of vegetation exists in the hills and river valleys in the region?
What is forests - get it right everyone in your group gets 5 points added to their average
100
In what country can you find people who speak Pashto?
What is Afghanistan
100
What river provides fresh water for Israel, Jordan and Syria?
What is the Jordan River
200
This strait is considered the most vital choke point in the world.
What is Strait of Hormuz
200
What type of climate generally exists on the Arabian Peninsula?
What is an arid climate - if you got it right everyone in your group gets 10 points added to today's assignment
200
What type of vegetation can you find on the mediterranean coast?
What is Chaparral?
200
What is the most common official language that can be found in Southwest Asia?
What is Arabic
200
The Tigris and Euphrates rivers can be found in what country in Southwest Asia?
What is Iraq
300
This strait links the Black Sea with the Mediterranean Sea.
What is the Bosporus Strait - get it right everyone in your group gets 20 points added to assignment
300
Typically rainfall amounts in southwest Asia are under how many inches a year?
What is 10 inches
300
Why are there so few vegetation zones in the region?
What is because of the arid climate.
300
Persians can be found in Afghanistan and in what other Southwest Asia country?
What is Iran? - If you get this right, everyone in your group gets 5 points added to their six weeks average
300
Mesopotamia is considered a ______ because this is one location where civilization began?
What is cultural hearth
400
This term is the point at which traffic or other movements can be daily blocked.
What is choke points
400
What body of water is credited with providing countries such as Israel, Turkey and Lebanon a warm summers and mild winters?
What is the Mediterranean Sea
400
What type of vegetation exists on the Anatolia Plateau in Turkey?
What is grasslands
400
Turkish is spoken in what country?
What is Turkey
400
What land locked lake can be found in the region. It is the lowest place on the earth's exposed crust?
What is the Dead Sea
500
88% of the oil produced in the Persian gulf region passes through this body of water.
What is the Strait of Hormuz
500
Of the three climate zones: polar, tropical and temperate, which one does Southwest Asia belong to?
What is the tropical zone
500
Where can you find desert scrub in the region?
What is Israel and the Arabian Peninsula
500
Many Persians speak what language?
What is Farsi
500
What are the two major rivers found in the Southwest Asia?
What is the Tigris and Euphrates - get this right everyone in your group gets 20 points on today's quiz grade
