Vocabulary
Resources
Geography
Oil
People's Well Being
100
Petroleum as it comes out of the ground and before it has been refined or processed into useful products.
What is crude oil?
100
What is the most common resource in Southwest and Central Asia?
Oil
100
The part of the world that lies where Europe, Africa and Asia meet.
What is Southwest Asia?
100
Oil often stays trapped underneath a layer of this type of rock.
What is impermeable rock?
100
These methods can be used to measure a country's wealth.
What is gross domestic product (GDP) and per capita GDP?
200
A resource that takes so long to form that it cannot be replaced.
What is a nonrenewable resource?
200
Oil is a common resource near this gulf.
What is the Persian Gulf?
200
This climate zone, that is common in Southwest Asia, climbs to high temperatures in the summer.
What is arid?
200
The name of places where oil is found deep in the Earth.
What is pockets?
200
Money from selling oil in Southwest Asia has not eliminated this issue in all countries.
What is poverty?
300
Oil that has been discovered but remains unused in the ground.
What is oil reserves?
300
This resource is found within the Earth's crust.
What is natural gas?
300
What elevation is the most common in Southwest and Central Asia?
What is 2,001-5,000 feet?
or
What is 611-1,525 meters?
300
18% of the world's proven oil reserves lie under this country.
What is Saudi Arabia?
300
Oil money has helped decrease the ___________________ rate by 85%.
What is infant mortality?
400
A resource that cannot be used up or that can be replaced quickly as it is used up.
What is a renewable resource?
400
Sunlight is an example of this type of resource.
What is a renewable resource?
400
This vegetation zone is the most common in Southwest Asia.
What is desert scrub?
400
This organization helps ensure a steady supply of oil and a steady income for oil exporting countries.
What is the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)?
400
Oil money has helped increase the ________ expectancy in Southwest Asia.
What is life?
500
A wealthy country with an advanced economy.
What is developed countries?
500
Water access makes this resource possible.
What is commercial fishing?
500
This resource shapes economic activity in Southwest Asia because there is so little of it.
What is water?
500
Oil is a raw material that can be used to make these common goods.
What is plastics and medicines?
500
From 1979 to 2003 most of this country's income from oil was spent on building an army, buying weapons, and fighting wars.
What is Iraq?