Religions
The Quran
What is the Holy Book of Islam?
This River Borders Israel.
What is the Jordan River?
This Ethnic group has their own Government but not their own Land.
Who are the Kurds?
Large body of water, south of the Arabian Peninsula and between Africa and India
What is the Arabian Sea?
The Addition of Harmful Chemicals to Natural Water.
What is Water Pollution?
3 for this one Religion
How many Languages are involved with Christianity?
This sea is South of Iran.
What is the Red Sea?
This Ethnic grpoup lives in the mountainous regions of Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Iran.
Who are the Kurds?
What is the Problem with water in the Middle East?
There is a shortage of water.
The supply of water to land or crops to help growth, typically by means of channels.
What is Irrigation?
Protestant, Roman Catholic, and Eastern Orthodox
What are the three branches of Christianity?
This is a narrow band of water that is a vital part of making a path for supplying the World its OIL.
What is the Strait of Hormuz?
They speak FARSI – similar to Arabic
The Persians
Why are the rivers in the Middle East SO Important?
Travel, Water Source, and for Electricity (Hydroelectric Power)
A (micro-irrigation system) that has the potential to save water and nutrients by allowing water to drip slowly to the roots of plants.
What is Drip Irrigation?
A belief system dealing with with a god or multiple gods.
What is a Religious Group?
This Canal is very important for the shipment and movement of OIL.
What is the Suez Canal?
They believe themselves to be descendants of Abraham in the Bible
Who are the Arabs?
What causes Flooding?
Rain and Run Off (The giving of too much water from upper Countries releasing too much water)
This Refers to the removal of salts and minerals from a target substance.
What is Desalination?
Yahweh
What is Judaism's one GOD named?
This River is North of the Euphrates River.
What is the Tigris River?
This type of Muslim believe that new leaders should be chosen but not have to come from Muhammad’s family.
What are Sunni Muslims?
What Religion observes a Holy Month called Ramadan?
Islam
This is a factor causing the
unequal distribution of water
in the Middle East.
What are Dams or the Building of Dams?