Mountains and other landforms
What country do the Taurus Mountains separate from the rest of Southwest Asia?
Turkey
What do you call riverbeds that are dry except in rainy seasons?
Wadis's
What is the definition of an oasis?
A fertile spot in a desert, where water is found
What is Southwest Asia's most abundant resourse?
Oil
True of False: The Dead Sea is the lowest place of Earth's exposed crust, being 1,349 feet below sea level?
True
What is the Arabian Peninsula covered by?
Dry, Sandy, windy plains
The Arabian Peninsula
What desert is between Lebanon, Israel, and Fertile Crescent?
The Syrian Desert
What is crude oil?
Petroleum that has not been processed
What is desalinization?
removes salt form ocean water at treatment plants
What are the Golan Heights?
Plateaus near Jordan River, and the Sea of Galilee
What rivers flow through Turkey, Syria, and Iraq?
The Tigris and Euphrates rivers
An Arabian Peninsula desert, known as the Empty Quarter
What is the transportation that moves crude oil to refineries and ports like the Persian Gulf?
Pipelines
What is Drip irrigation?
small pipes that slowly drip water just above ground
Where did Southwest Asia form land bridges?
Between Asia, Africa, and Europe
What river flows from Lebanon's Mt. Hermon between Israel, Jordan
The Jordan River
What are the conditions of Iran's salt flat in central Iran like?
Land is salt-crusted, surrounded by slat marshes, very hot
True or False: Half of the world's oil reserves are in Southwest Asia?
True
What kind of climate do fringes of deserts have?
Semi arid climate
What seas does the Anatolian Peninsula sit in between of?
The Black and Mediterranean Sea
What waterway flows from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean?
The Suez Canal
What desert produces crops through irrigation?
Israel's Negev Desert
What are tankers high population risk?
They operate in shallow, narrow waters
When was the largest oil spill?
January 1991, during the Persian Gulf War