Physical Geography
These are the two main peninsulas of SW Asia
What are the Arabian & Anatolian Peninsula?
Arabian Peninsula, Eastern Mediterranean, Northeast
What are the 3 regions of SW Asia?
What is oil?
A fundamentalist Muslim political group
What is the Taliban?
This is the most critical resource in SW Asia
What is water?
Riverbeds that remain dry except during the rainy season
What is a wadi?
The holiest city in Islam
What is Mecca?
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries - control worldwide oil prices
What is OPEC & what is its purpose?
Removal of Saddam Hussein from power due to his possession of weapons of mass destruction
What was Operation Iraqi Freedom (2001)?
To support growing populations & large farms
What is the purpose of building dams & irrigation systems?
Mountains surround this physical feature that is located in Iran & the Anatolian Peninsula
What is a plateau?
The land controlled by Britain prior to the formation of Israel?
An increase in urbanization
Why are people moving to cities?
A government controlled by religious leaders
What is a theocracy?
Unskilled laborers that do jobs that native people find culturally or economically unacceptable
What is a guest worker?
This is SW Asia's most abundant resource
What is oil?
A cultural hearth located in the Fertile Crescent between the Tigris & Euphrates Rivers
What is Mesopotamia?
What is a strategic commodity?
Islam Law system in the Arabian Peninsula
What is Shari'ah Law?
Oil spills
What is a risk of transporting oil?
Half of the world's oil reserves are found in this physical feature in SW Asia
What is the Persian Gulf?
Why is there conflict between the 3 monotheistic religions of SW Asia?
The price of oil rises & falls and so do these economies
How does the cost of oil effect the economies of SW Asia?
Where does the government of the Arabian Peninsula get the money for public works such as water development?
A strip of land on the West side of the Jordan River
What is the West Bank?