Deserts
The term "Middle East" was invented by these countries who controlled the colonies within the area.
Who are the European countries?
There are no rivers in this peninsula.
What is the Arabian Peninsula?
The highest point on the Arabian Peninsula are these mountains.
The mountains of Yemen.
Due to this climate, the vegetation in the East Mediterranean region is plentiful.
The two most valuable resources in the Arabian Peninsula.
What are water and oil?
The name of the largest sand desert in the world, that covers most of North Africa.
What is the Sahara Desert?
This is the world's longest river, emptying into the Mediterranean Sea.
What is the Nile River?
These mountains cover most of Iran.
What are the Zagros mountains?
Flooding allows the deposits of this, making the soil fertile.
What is silt, or small particles of soil that has minerals and nutrients?
The Strait of Bosporus divides which city?
What is Istanbul, Turkey?
Double Jeopardy!!
Not all deserts are flat! These can be found to be 1,000 ft high!
What are sand dunes?
There are no rivers in the Arabian Peninsula, so farmers use these to irrigate their farms.
What is fossil water, or underground water well?
When the Arabian and Eurasian plates pushed into each other, they formed which mountain range.
What are the Zagros mountains?
This is the reason that the desert climate can be very hot during the day and very cold at night.
When the sun is out, sand proves to be an effective distributor of heat, reflecting it back into the air. But it’s not very good at retaining heat. Once the sun goes down, heat from the sand is released quickly.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
This term means a wet, fertile area in a desert, from a natural spring or well.
What is an oasis?
The French built this canal in the 1860s to make trade and transportation easier.
What is the Suez Canal?
The area from the Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf is known as this, as it has always been ideal for agriculture.
Most rivers flow east, west, or south, but this river flows north, into the Mediterranean sea.
What is the Nile River?
The longest river in southwest Asia. It is 600 miles shorter than the Mississippi River.
What is the Euphrates River?
The name of the desert and the peninsula is the largest sand desert in south west Asia.
(Two part answer)
What is the Rub al-khali in the Arabian Peninsula?
This Strait is only 7 miles wide, but one of the busiest shipping channels in the world! One major vessel moves through each 5 minutes. It is located in North Africa.
What is the Strait of Gibraltar?
This natural resource has shown us time and time again that it will draw people to it and help civilizations settle near it.
What is fresh water?
This human made structure allowed people to regulate flooding of the Nile, allowing for year-round crops, rather than relying on a flooding cycle.
What is the Aswan High Dam?
This is a flat area of land near a stream or river that floods built up by fertile soil.
The alluvial plains.