Southwest Asia & North Africa #1
Which of the following words best describes the climate of this region?
Arid -- Equatorial -- Humid -- Temperate
What is arid?
Gave the Jewish people the promised land.
Who is God?
A piece of land almost surrounded by water or projecting out into a body of water.
What is a peninsula?
Which religion is associated with the Koran (Qur'an)?
What is Islam?
The most holy city in Islam.
What is Mecca?
The two rivers in modern-day Iraq where the earliest civilizations formed.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates River?
Formed Israel from Palestine as a place of refuge after the holocaust
What is the United Nations?
Pull factor of migration.
What are jobs or a strong economy?
Caused the deaths of over 6 million Jews.
What is the Holocaust?
The systematic use of terror, especially as a means of coercion.
What is terrorism?
Before the construction of the Suez Canal, ships would have to go around what continent to get to the Americas?
What is Africa?
What characteristic do Judaism, Christianity, and Islam all share?
What is a belief in one god?
What is the largest country on the Arabian Peninsula?
What is Saudi Arabia?
OPEC stands for
Organizations of the Petroleum Exporting Countries
What is silt?
What is fine particles of soil along a riverbank?
The religion started by the Prophet Muhammad.
What is Islam?
Women are expected to wear these in most countries in the Arabian Peninusla.
What is a head covering?
Member of OPEC.
What is Algeria, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Libya, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, UAE, and Venezuela?
What is the main characteristic of arable land?
What is suitable for farming?
Deficient in quantity or number compared with the demand : not plentiful or abundant.
What is scarcity?
What industry contributes most to the economy of the Arabian Peninsula?
What is petroleum production?
What group moved into the territory of Israel after the Jewish diaspora?
What are Arabs?
The two most practiced religions in the world today.
What are Christianity & Islam?
Someone who is forced to leave their country due to war, persecution or other reasons.
What is a refugee?
The Holy Site for Jews where they pray and put their prayers in the wall.
What is the Western Wall or the Wailing Wall?
Laborers who travel to a country specifically for work, stay may be temporary.
What are migrant workers?
The name of the two Pakistani territories in Israel.
What is Gaza Strip and the West Bank?
Ally of Israel
Australia, France, Canada, United States, United Kingdom, Norway, Austria, Germany, India, Italy.
War that began the day after Israel declared independence.
What is the Arab-Israeli War?
Unfairly prejudiced for or against someone or something.
What is biased?
Largest religion in the world?
What is Christianity?
Helped to spread culture, including religion, ideas, and goods.
What is trade?
What allowed agriculture to flourish along the Nile River?
What is predictable flooding (silt)?
The man-made waterway that connects the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea.
What is the Suez Canal?
The sea that is 10x saltier than the ocean.
What it the Dead Sea?
Removes salt from seawater, as well as minerals from undrinkable ground water
What is desalinization plant?
Mosque covered with a black cloth with embroidered gold writing.
What is the Kaaba?
Ally of Palestine
What is Iran, Qatar, Turkey, Lebanon, Syria, or Yemen?
Translates to “uprising” in Arabic.
What is intifada?
Capital city of Israel.
What is Jerusalem?
What resulted from the agricultural revolution in Mesopotamia?
What is advanced civilizations developed?
Where Judaism, Christianity and Islam's holy sites are located.
What is Jeruselum?
The largest exporter of petroleum.
What is Saudi Arabia?
One of the different regions in the Arabian Peninsula.
What are the Mediterranean, Desert or Plateau Regions?
About how much rain does the Sahara Desert receive per year?
What is less than four inches?
Tallest building in the world.
What is the Burj Khalifa?
A push factor of migration.
What is war, famine, persecution?
The belief that Jews should have their own homeland or nation in order to be safe from persecution.
What is Zionism?
An Islamist political group that wants to destroy Israel.
What is Hamas?
One goal of OPEC.
What is stable or fair pricing?