Vocabulary
Geographic Features
Names
Bodies of Water
Which country . . . ?
100
What process takes the salt out of seawater?
desalinization
100
What is the English name for the Rub' al Khali desert?
Empty Quarter
100
What is the name of Islam's god?
Allah
100
What is the saltiest and lowest sea in the world?
Dead Sea
100
What country was established as a homeland for the Jews?
Israel
200
What is a religious journey to a holy city?
hajj
200
What rivers are the two main geographic features of Iraq?
Tigris and Euphrates
200
What is the former name of Iran?
Persia
200
What body of water has oil-rich nations along its coast?
Persian Gulf
200
What country on the Arabian Peninsula has an exclave?
Oman
300
What is a type of settlement in which people share all the property?
kibbutz
300
What is the name of the only city in the world that sits on two continents?
Istanbul
300
What is the name of the prophet who first proclaimed Islam?
Muhammad
300
What sea has the coastlines of Israel, Lebanon, and Syria at its eastern end?
Mediterranean Sea
300
What country has a major share of the world's oil deposits?
Saudi Arabia
400
What is the name for a nomadic desert people who follow a traditional way of life?
Bedouins
400
What desert covers about half (the southern half) of Israel?
Negev Desert
400
What is the name of the founder of the terrorist group al-Qaeda?
Osama bin Laden
400
What sea is to the west of Saudi Arabia?
Red Sea
400
What country was the first country to have oil discovered in it (in 1908)?
Iran (then called Persia)
500
What is an area that is built up by rich fertile soil left by river floods?
alluvial plain
500
What is the name of the mountain range that covers much of Afghanistan?
Hindu Kush
500
What is the name of the Iraqi dictator who was executed in December 2006?
Saddam Hussein
500
What is the name given to the Bosporus Strait, the Sea of Marmara, and the Dardanelles?
Turkish Straits
500
What is the most densely wooded country in Southwest Asia?
Lebanon
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