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100
This is the canal that divides the Middle East from Africa.
What is the Suez Canal?
100
This is the best description of the climate for the vast majority of the Middle East.
What is hot and dry?
100
This is the country located between Iraq and Afghanistan.
What is Iran?
100

Who is the founder of Islam?

Muhammad 

200
This is the river that forms the natural boundary between Israel and Jordan.
What is the Jordan River?
200
These are the two most important resources in the Middle East.
What are water and oil?
200
This is an example of a source of water for an oasis.
What is Underground springs.
200
This is the prominent religion in the Middle East.
What is Islam?
300
These are the names of the two most important rivers in the Middle East.
What are the Tigris and the Euphrates?
300
This is the process of removing salt from salt water in order to make it suitable for farming and drinking.
What is desalination?
300
Iraq invaded Kuwait primarily to gain control over this resource.
What is oil?
300

Who is the founder of Judaism?

Abraham 

400
This is the feature that makes up most of the Middle East.
What is desert?
400
In dry climate countries like Afghanistan and Iran, this is how farmers water crops (through directing water towards their crops).
What is irrigation?
400

What two rivers provide most of the water for Iraq, Syria, and Turkey

Tigris and Euphrates

400

This is the percent of Muslims in the world that are Sunni Muslims.

What is 80-90%?

500
This is the name of a landlocked salt lake.
What is the Dead Sea?
500

The climate of the Middle East has led much of the region to experience a scarcity of this.

Water

500

What is the most abundant resource in the Middle East (overall)

Oil

500
This is the difference between the beliefs of Sunni and Shia Muslims when it comes to their leaders.
What are Sunni Muslims believe that their leaders are elected officials capable of the job, while Shia Muslims believe that their leaders are distant relatives of Muhammad himself?