The peninsula in which Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Oman and UAE are located.
What is the Arabian Peninsula?
100
Many countries in the Southwest Asia depend on this resource that was formed thousands of years ago from organic matter.
What is oil or petroleum?
100
The type of government that Israel has.
What is democracy?
100
The most widely spoken language in the Middle East.
What is Arabic?
100
This country has the greatest number of oil reserves.
What is Saudi Arabia?
200
The majority landform in the Middle East.
What is desert or arid land?
200
A scarce resource in the Middle East that often causes competition and arguments between countries.
What is water?
200
Type of government in which a group of religious leaders rule the country based on religious laws.
What is theocracy?
200
The three monotheistic religions that originated in the Middle East.
What are Judaism, Christianity and Islam?
200
Another name for oil.
What is petroleum?
300
The body of water that Iran, Kuwait and the UAE share. Much of the oil deposits are located around this body of water.
What is the Persian Gulf?
300
nation in the Middle East. It has no oil, but specializes in technology and produces chemicals, as well as cutting diamonds.
What is Israel?
300
Two of three countries that have a democracy in the Middle East.
What is Turkey, Israel, or Iraq
300
The city that is currently the capital of Israel. It is also wanted by the Palestinians because it is home to Dome of the Rock, a holy site to Muslims.
What is Jerusalem?
300
The group of nations that export oil. They control the extraction of oil, as well as the price of oil.
What is OPEC?
400
The body of water that forms the border between Israel and Jordan. It is often disputed between the two countries over its fresh water.
What is the Jordan River?
400
This country has the lowest level of development in the Middle East. Low literacy rates and poor GDP lead to more poverty.
What is Yemen.
400
A country in the Middle East in which the government is a monarchy and their laws are based on Islamic religious laws.
What is Saudi Arabia?
400
This man's teachings were compiled into the Q'uran and he and his followers spread the religion of Islam throughout the Arabian peninsula.
Who is Muhammed?
400
A country that has a lot of oil reserves but Saddam Hussein and others did not used profits to improve the education and the infrastructure of the country.
What is Iraq?
500
The are two Palestinian Territories.
What are Gaza Strip and West Bank?
500
The meaning of GDP, with an explanation of what it mean in seventh grade terms.
What is Gross Domestic Product—the amount of goods and services a country produces in a year.
500
The international organization of countries that divided up Palestine to give the Jews their own country in 1947.
What is the United Nations?
500
The country that used to be called Persia where you will hear the language Farsi or Persian spoken . They are not Arabic in ethnicity.
What is Iran?
500
This country has no oil but has managed to gain the top HDI ranking of the Middle East.