Land
The vast desert and plateau that includes Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Yemen, and United Arab Emirates
What is the Arabian Peninsula?
The world's longest river, flowing 4,160 miles northward from east central Africa into the Mediterranean Sea
What is the Nile River?
The great, desolate expanse across north Africa that separates the Mediterranean Arab countries from the rest of Africa
What is the Sahara Desert?
The resource that is in short supply but is greatly needed for development of agricultural lands
What is water?
What is the Strait of Gibraltar?
A fertile spot in a desert fed by an underground spring
What is an Oasis?
The long body of water between Saudi Arabia and northeast Africa
What is the Red Sea?
The climate type of much of this region, where long, very hot summers force people to live along seacoasts and in river and mountain valleys
What is the desert?
The area's most important resource, with the fields surrounding the Persian Gulf being the most productive in the world
What is oil?
The dam built across the Nile River as part of a huge irrigation project, which has greatly increased Egyptian agricultural production
What is the Aswan High Dam?
A series of roughly parallel ranges located on the Mediterranean coasts of Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia
What are the Atlas Mountains?
An arm of the Arabian Sea, lying between Iran and the Arabian Peninsula
What is the Persian Gulf?
The term for the climate of the Atlas coast and parts of Turkey, Syria, Israel, and Lebanon that permits the raising of many fruits and vegetables
What is the Mediterranean?
An expensive fuel generally found near oil in most of these countries, especially in Algeria and Iran
What is natural gas?
The salt lake on the border of Israel and Jordan whose surface lies 1,299 feet below sea level
What is the Dead Sea?
The small peninsula between the Mediterranean and Red Seas, belonging to Egypt, but part of the Asian continent
What is the Sinai Peninsula?
The two rivers that rise in Turkey and flow through Iraq into the Persian Gulf, forming a wide plain
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
The flooding river whose narrow banks of rich silt deposits support most of Egypt's agriculture
What is the Nile River?
The two essential minerals, needed for large-scale industrial production, that are lacking in this region
What are iron and coal?
The engineered waterway that separates Africa from Asia and connects the Mediterranean and Red Seas
What is the Suez Canal?
A very high range of snow-capped mountains that covers three fourths of Afghanistan
What is the Hindu Kush?
The waterway that separates Turkey in Europe from Turkey in Asia and connects the Sea of Marmara with the Aegean Sea
What is Dardanelles?
The name for the rich soil region that curves through the Iraqi plains, where several ancient civilizations developed
What is the Fertile Crescent (or Mesopotamia)?
The bark of trees grown in Morocco and Algeria that is valuable for its buoyancy, resistance to liquids, and soundproofing
What is cork?
A poor Islamic nation in northwest Africa that is being devastated by the hot winds of the Sahara Desert
What is Mauritania?