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100
This sea lies west of the Arabian Peninsula and east of Egypt.
What is the Red Sea?
100
The largest reserves of this energy resource are found in the area of the Persian Gulf.
What is oil?
100
This illegal fishing has resulted in a decrease in the population of sturgeon.
What is poaching?
100
Name the term meaning to take salts and minerals out of sea water.
What is desalinization?
100
Libya uses this source of fresh water.
What is an aquifer?
200
This sea lies north of North Africa.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
200
The type of rock where oil will be found.
What is sedimentary rock?
200
Name the sea in which most of the world's sturgeon are found.
What is the Caspian Sea?
200
Give the term used to describe the method of keeping moisture in the soil by not planting the land for several years.
What is dry farming?
200
Jordan and Syria are dealing with their lack of fresh water through this method.
What is rationing?
300
The mountain range that stretches across Afghanistan.
What is the Hindu Kush?
300
Rich deposits of this resource are found in Morocco and Kazakhstan.
What are phosphates?
300
Name one intervention used by man to raise the levels of the Aral Sea.
What are building dams or dikes?
300
Give the term for dry river beds in the Sahara.
What are wadis?
300
This animal was imported from Saudi Arabia to become a primary means of transportation in North Africa.
What are camels?
400
2 of the three waterways that link the Mediterranean Sea and the Black Sea, separating Europe from Asia.
What are the Dardanelles Strait, the Sea of Marmara, and the Bosporus Strait?
400
Silt deposited in a region formerly known as Mesopotamia came from this natural phenomenon. Name the phenomenon and give the term for where these deposits are found.
What is flooding and what is an alluvial plain?
400
The Aswan High Dam has had negative effects on the environment. Name one of these negative items.
What is "the flow of silt from the Nile River has been blocked?" OR What is, "because of silt being blocked, farmers have to fertilize the soil and these chemicals have polluted the Nile River?"
400
These grasslands border the Sahara.
What is the steppe region?
400
20% of the Sahara is made up of these.
What are ergs?
500
Name one of the two mountain ranges in Central Asia.
What are the Pamirs and the Tian Shan?
500
Petroleum in formed from these and through this process.
What are dead plants and animals and what is the intense weight of the rocks created heat and pressure to form oil?
500
Daily Double!!!!! Name two crops grown along the banks of the Nile River.
What are cotton and sugarcane?
500
Name the two rivers that are on either side of what used to be called Mesopotamia.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
500
Give the purpose of a shadoof.
What is "this waters dry areas in parts of North Africa?"