Map It!!
Rivers & Water
Ethnic or Religious?
Religion
Challenge🔥
100

What body of water lies between Africa and the Arabian Peninsula?

What is the Red Sea?

100

What two major rivers flow through Iraq?

What are the Tigris & Euphrates Rivers?

100

Arabs are an ethnic group or religious group?

What is an ethnic group?

100

What is the sacred text of Christianity?

What is the Bible?

100

Is Iran primarily Sunni or Shia Muslim?

What is Shia Muslim?

200

What body of water do the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers eventually flow into?

What is the Persian Gulf?

200

What river is located near Israel?

What is the Jordan River?

200

Followers of Islam belong to this religious group.

What are Muslims?

200

What is the sacred text of Islam?

What is the Quran?

200

Is most of Southwest Asia primarily Sunni or Shia Muslim?

What is Sunni Muslim?

300

What man-made waterway connects the Mediterranean Sea and Red Sea?

What is the Suez Canal?

300

Why does Turkey have an advantage when it comes to freshwater?

What is it has more rivers and receives more rainfall?
300

Persians and Kurds are examples of what type of group?

What is an ethnic group?

300

Where do followers of Judaism worship?

What is a Synagogue? 

300

Write each religion with its sacred text: Judaism, Christianity, Islam.

What is Judaism—Torah; Christianity—Bible; Islam—Quran

400

What narrow waterway connects the Persian Gulf to the Arabian Sea?

What is the Strait of Hormuz?

400

What must many farmers in Iraq dig to bring water to their crops?

What is Canals?

400

TRUE or FALSE: Everyone belonging to the same ethnic group must practice the same religion.

What is False?

400

What religion believes Jesus is the Son of God?

What is Christianity? 

400

Write each religion with their founder: Judaism, Christianity, Islam.

What is Judaism—Abraham; Christianity—Jesus Christ; Islam—Prophet Muhammad 

500

The Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz flows into what body of water?

What is the Arabian Sea?

500

Why is water flow restricted downstream in Iraq?

What is Dam Projects in Turkey and Syria reduce the amount of water available downstream?

500

TRUE or FALSE: A person can choose a religion, but people are born into an ethnic group.

What is True?

500

Name the common patriarch to whom Judaism, Christianity, and Islam trace their roots.

Who is Abraham? 

500

Name three of the Five Pillars of Islam.

What is Any 3: Faith, Prayer, Charity, Fasting during Ramadan, Pilgrimage to Mecca

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