Water Physical Features
Land Physical Features
Economy
Religion
Ethnic Groups
100
The longest river in southwest Asia.
What is the Nile River?
100
The mountainous, landlocked country in the far eastern edge of southwest Asia.
What is Afghanistan?
100
The main source of wealth for countries in the middle east.
What is oil?
100
The oldest religion in the middle east.
What is Judaism?
100
The language of the Kurds.
What is Kurdish?
200
The long river that starts in Turkey then flows through Syria and Iraq.
What is the Euphrates River?
200
The largest country on the Arabian Peninsula.
What is Saudi Arabia?
200
The economies of countries without oil reserves or water resources can be described this way.
What is low standard of living or poverty?
200
The fastest growing religion.
What is Islam?
200
The country where most Persians live.
Where is Iran?
300
The man made shortcut that saves time and money by connecting the Red Sea and the Mediterranean Sea.
What is the Suez Canal?
300
The small, oil rich country that sits on the north end of the Persian Gulf.
What is Kuwait?
300
The shortage of this resource has caused disease, war and poverty throughout the middle east.
What is water?
300
The holy book of Islam.
What is the Qur'an or Koran?
300
The major ethnic group in the middle east.
What are Arabs?
400
The narrow waterway that ships have to navigate in order to transport oil from the middle east.
What is the Strait of Hormuz?
400
People who have survived the harsh desert conditions by living in tents and herding sheep and camels.
Who are Nomads or Bedouins?
400
OPEC.
What is the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries?
400
The Old Testament is considered holy scripture for these two major religions in the middle east.
What is Judaism and Christianity?
400
The language of the Persians in Iran?
What is Farsi?
500
The waterway that forms when the Tigris and Euphrates rivers join.
What is the Shatt al-Arab?
500
The large desert found in southern Saudi Arabia.
What is the Rub Al-Khali or Empty Quarter?
500
These four countries have the greatest reserves of oil and natural gas.
What are Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Iran, and Kuwait?
500
This caused the religion of Islam to split into Sunnis and Shiites.
What is the death of Muhammed?
500
This ethnic group believe themselves to be the descendants of Abraham through his son Ishmael.
Who are the Arabs?
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