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Ethnic Groups
Religion
Bodies of Water
Political Geography
Environment
100
This ethnic group is the largest in Southwest Asia (The Middle East).
What are Arabs?
100
What is the holy writing (book) of Judaism?
What is the Torah?
100
These two waterways begin in Turkey, and come together to form the border between Kuwait and Iran.
What are the Tigris & Euphrates rivers?
100
This Middle Eastern country is located to the northwest of Iraq and is the country in which the Euphrates and the Tigris rivers begin.
What is Turkey?
100
The building of these has created problems for countries sharing rivers in Southwest Asia (the Middle East).
What are dams?
200
This modern country is the home to those who call themselves Persians.
What is Iran?
200
What is the holy writing (book) of Islam?
What is the Quran?
200
The Persian Gulf and Arabian Sea are connected by this waterway.
What is the Strait of Hormuz?
200
This is the largest country of the Arabian Peninsula.
What is Saudi Arabia?
200
These two adjectives best describe the climate of much of Southwest Asia (the Middle East).
What are hot and dry?
300
This ethnic group is the only one without a country of their own.
Who are the Kurds?
300
This country in the Middle East that is mostly Jewish.
What is Israel?
300
The Suez Canal runs through the country.
What is Egypt?
300
This small country is bound by the Gaza Strip and the West Bank and was created in 1948 by the UN as a homeland for the Jewish people.
What is Israel?
300
People living along the rivers of Southwest Asia have built canals, qanats, and water wheels to use the water for this purpose.
What is irrigation?
400
Ethnic groups share a common culture and this
What is ancestry?
400
The five pillars of Islam are Hajj, charity, fasting, faith, and this.
What is prayer.
400
The Suez Canal is a man-made shortcut that help with transportation and this.
What is trade.
400
The two largest rivers in the region flow through this country.
What is Iraq?
400
The use of these have led to the build-up of salt levels in the soil and have contaminated water supplies in Southwest Asia.
What are chemical fertilizers?
500
This is the religion of most of the Arabs and Kurds in Southwest Asia (the Middle East).
What is Sunni Muslim?
500
This man is considered to be the father of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam.
Who is Abraham?
500
This body of water is very important because it is one of the main ways oil is shipped from the Middle Eastern countries.
What is the Persian Gulf?
500
This area along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea is overseen by Israel and is occupied predominantly by Palestinians.
What is the Gaza Strip?
500
This is the very expensive and complex process of removing salt and other chemicals from seawater.
What is desalinization?