This deep, old lake...
All dried up and nowhere to go.
Strategic Locations
Oil, oil, toil and trouble...
Hodgepodge
100

Lake Baikal is the ______ lake in the world.

What is deepest?

100

This "sea" does not drain to another water body.

What is the Aral Sea?

100

It's horn is made of gold.

What is Constantinope?

100

It is possibly responsible for much of the strife in the Middle East.

What is oil?

100

This renewable resource is a good substitute for oil in the Middle East.

What is solar energy?

200

Lake Baikal is found in this country.

What is Russia?

200

The Aral Sea is found in these countries.

What is Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan?

200

This pinch point is found where the Persian Gulf joins the Gulf of Oman.

What is the Strait of Hormuz?

200

Bahrain got its wealth from oil, but started out as a major _______ port.

What is fishing?

200

It is the worlds largest peninsula.

What is the Arabian Peninsula?

300

Lake Baikal holds about 20% of the world's __________.

What is freshwater?

300

It was left behind in the soil and on plants when the water was gone.

What is salt?

300

This is the gateway to Europe.

What is Constantinople (Istanbul)?

300

Bahrain invested its oil income into tthe country and created the world's largest _______ ____ ____.

What is economic free zone?

300

This conqueror finally took Constantinople from the Eastern Roman Emperor Constantine XI.

Who was the Mehmed II?

400

There are a lot of these; more than 2000 of them.

What is species of plant and animals?

400

When the water was diverted, this "cropped" up.

What is cotton?

400

It "moves things" closer together and is only found in the Middle East.

What is the Suez Canal?

400

It has the world's highest GDP per Capita.

What is Qatar?

400

The Gulf of Suez connects the Red Sea with this.

What is the Mediterranian Sea?

500

There is so much life in Lake Baikal due to this, even at the very bottom.

What is oxygen?

500

These are the two rivers that feed the Aral Sea.

What is the Amu Darya and the Syr Darya?

500

The Bosphorus Strait connects the Black Sea to ____ of _________.

What is the Sea of Marmara?

500

This "line" in the sand was responsible for separating peoples in the Middle East, not joining them.

What is the Sykes-Picot Line?

500

This strategic area that is the narrow opening between the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden.

What is the Bab al-Mandab Strait?