This dam allows irrigation to take place, along the Nile River.
What is the Aswan High Dam?
100
These bodies of water connect the Mediterranean Sea to the Black sea, which connects Asia to the Atlantic.
What are the Bosporus Strait, Dardanelles Strait, and the Sea of Marmara?
100
This resource is used as a fertilizer.
What are phosphates?
100
This is a an undergroud river or water storage pocket.
What is an aquifer?
200
This mountain range runs though Iran and into Turkey.
What are the Zagros Mountains?
200
This region has two inland seas and they are both effected by poaching.
What is Central Asia?
200
This river in Egypt has the Aswan High Dam built on it.
What is the Nile River?
200
This resource has made the Arabian Peninsula very wealthy and is its leading natural, non-renewable resource.
What is petroleum?
200
Grassy Plains
What are steppes?
300
The Khyber Pass allows passage through this mountain range.
What is the Hindu Kush?
300
This sea has been effected by the poaching of fishing, which reduces the amount of offspring, which reduces fish population.
What is the Caspian Sea?
300
This canal is man made, and connects the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea.
What is the Suez Canal?
300
Define Sedimentary Rock.
What is many layers of material hardened by intense weight and pressure by materials piled above...over millions of years?
300
This watering device is used in North Africa and irrigates the land by lowering a bucket into a well.
What is a shadoof?
400
This climate gets between 4 and 16 inches of parcipitaion annually.
What are steppes?
400
Kazakhstan and Uzbekisstan damed up all of the rivers that contribute into this inland body of water.
What is the Aral Sea?
400
These two sea's are inland.
What are the Aral Sea and the Caspian Sea?
400
Many countires in the Arabian Peninsula have used their money from oil sales to do this...
What is to develop other businesses?
(Party til the money runs out song)
400
Where can you find a copy of the study guide?
What is on the SS website?
500
What is the average annual precipitaion of a desert?
What is less than 4 inches of precipitation?
500
This enviornmental concern is growing because the fish are hunted illegally.
What is Poaching?
500
This strait allows oil tankers to pass through the Persian Gulf.
What is the Strait of Hormuz?
500
Water is a scarce resouce in this part of the world. What method do wealthy countires use to help solve this problem?
What is desalinization?
500
This is a developing problem in Central Asia, SW Asia, and North Africa. It is do to the industry developments, factories and more middle class citizens having money to buy and drive cars.