Middle East Geography

Physical features and Countries

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This is the name of the country that lies between the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.

What is the Israel?

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These are the names of the two most important rivers in the Middle East.

What are the Tigris and the Euphrates?

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This is the body water that borders Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Iran.

What is the Persian Gulf?

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This is the canal that divides the Middle East from Africa.

What is the Suez Canal?

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The Euphrates and Tigris River both start in this country.

What is Turkey

Climate and Vegetation

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The climate of the Middle East has led much of the region to experience a scarcity of this.

What is rainfall/water?

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This is the process of removing salt from salt water in order to make it suitable for farming and drinking.

What is desalination?

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These are the two most important resources in the Middle East.

What are water and oil?

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This is the best description of the climate for the vast majority of the Middle East.

What is hot and dry?

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In dry climate countries like Afghanistan and Iran, this is how farmers water crops (through directing water towards their crops).

What is irrigation?

Random

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This is the belief in one God

What is monotheism

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This is why desalination is not used by most Middle East countries.

What is it is too expensive

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This is the main cause of unequal distribution of water in the Middle East

What is the building of dams?

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This is a group of people who share ancestry, language, and culture

What is ethnic group?

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This man is credited with being the founder of all 3 of the major religions of the Middle East

Who is Abraham

Where people live & Ethnic groups

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This is the name of the place Kurds live in the Middle East.

What is Kurdistan

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What are the names of the 2 groups of Muslims?

What is Sunni & Shia?

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This is the largest ethnic group in the Middle East.

What is Arabs

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This is where most people in the Middle East live near

What is coast, aquifers, and rivers?

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This is the ethnic group that speaks Farsi.

What is Persians

Religion

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Name the place of worship for Judaism, Islam, and Christianity

What is Synagogue, Mosque, and Church

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This Middle Eastern group holy text is the Torah

What are the Jews/Judaism?

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This is the most practiced religion in the Middle East.

What is Islam?

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This is the difference between a religious group and an ethnic group.

What are religious groups share a common set of beliefs, while ethnic groups share a common culture, language, art, etc?

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This is the reason the followers of Islam split.

What is because they could not agree on who should be the next leader.