This canal connects the Red Sea to the Mediterranean.
What is the Suez Canal?
100
Mesopotamia is Greek for "land between two rivers" and a cultural hearth between these rives of SW Asia.
What are the Tigris and Eurphrates?
100
This road was known as a trade route between Europe and China.
What is the Silk Road?
100
Before people settled down and started farming, they were known as____________, people who move from place to place.
What are Nomads?
100
Underground layters of pourous rock that contain water.
What are aquifers?
200
The cities in North Africa have become over-populated and the existing________________or basic urban necessities such as streets and sanitation are lacking.
What is "infrastructure?"
200
These flashfloods can appear in dry streambeds when a heavy rain occurs.
What are "Wadis?"
200
This sea has been disappearing since the Soviet Union started diverting its waters.
What is the Aral Sea?
200
Calls to worship 5 times a day is a component of this religion.
What is Islam?
200
Removal of salt from seawater by this process.
What is Desalination?
300
North Africa is home to one of the world's earliest civilizations along the ______________ river.
What is the "Nile?"
300
The land formerly know as Palestine is now know by this name.
What is Israel?
300
This central Asian nation has seen many invasions in the last 30 years beginning with the Soviet Union moving forces in in 1979.
What is Afghanistan?
300
An influx of Jewish refugees entered Palestine after this war.
What is World War 2?
300
Half of the earth is known by this name.
What is a "hemisphere?"
400
These mountains extend across Morocco and Algeria.
What are the Atlas Mountains?
400
The land of Anatolia which is surrounded by the Black, Agean and Mediterranean seas is mostly associated by this nation bridging Europe to Asia.
What is Turkey?
400
These mountains rise north of Mt. Ararat between the Black and Caspian Seas.
What are the Caucasus Mountains?
400
The people of Iran claim their history back to this empire.
What is the Persian Empire?
400
Products using____________ or petroleum derivitives can be made into fertilizers, medicines, etc.
What are Petrochemicals?
500
Across the Strait of Gibraltar, Morocco is only 7.7 nautical miles from this European nation.
What is Spain?
500
This empty quarter is where you'd find the world's largest sand desert.
What is the Rub' al-Khali?
500
This is the raising and grazing of livestock.
What is pastoralism?
500
The Old City of Jerusalem is divided into these 4 quarters.
What are the Christian, Jewish, Muslim and Armenian quarters?
500
City where Muslims are to make a pilgrimage at least once in their lifetime.