Physical Geography
This is the best description of the climate for the vast majority of the Middle East.
What is hot and dry?
This is the Muslim name for God.
What is Allah?
This is the largest city in the Middle East.
What is Cairo, Egypt?
The country that is west of Afghanistan and east of Iraq.
What is Iran?
This is the most spoken language in the Middle East.
What is Arabic?
This is the largest desert in the Middle East.
What is the Sahara Desert?
This is the holy book of Islam.
What is the Quran?
The country that the Jews and the Palestinians can never seem to agree about.
What is Israel?
This country is north of Syria and is described as the bridge between Europe and Asia.
What is Turkey?
This is the capital of Turkey.
What is Ankara?
This river forms the natural border between Israel and Jordan.
What is the Jordan River?
The three main religions that got their start in the Middle East.
What are Judaism, Christianity, and Islam?
Name the three largest cities in the Middle East, in order.
What is Cairo, Egypt, Istanbul, Turkey, and Tehran, Iran?
This country is east of Israel and South of Syria.
What is Jordan?
These are the three most populous countries in the Middle East.
What is Egypt, Iran, and Turkey?
Name three deserts in the Middle East.
What is the Sahara, Arabian, and Sinai?
Name three countries that are largely Shia Islam.
What is Iran, Bahrain, and Iraq?
The three biggest countries in the Middle East.
What is Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Egypt?
This country is between Saudi Arabia and Qatar.
What is Bahrain?
What is about 50% of the world’s supply?
Name five mountains the Middle East
What is Damavand, Iran, Ararat, Turkey, Jabal an-Nabi Shu'ayb, Yemen, Zardkooh, Iran, and Alam-Kuh, Iran?
Name five countries that are largely Sunni Islam (60% of the population practice Sunni Islam).
What is Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Yemen, Jordan, Kuwait, Syria, and Turkey?
Name all 16 countries in the Middle East.
What is Yemen, Oman, Qatar, UAE, Bahrain, Israel, Palestine, Lebanon, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Jordan, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Egypt.
Out of the 6 countries that border the Red Sea, these 3 are in the Middle East.
What is Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Yemen?
Name all the Middle Eastern countries involved in a war in the past 15 years.
What is Yemen, Iraq, Syria, Saudi Arabia, UAE (and technically)?