Both the Tigris and Euphrates rivers begin in this country
What is Turkey?
100
This is what the name "Mesopotamia" means
What is land between the rivers?
100
This activity restricts how much water flows through a river, creating problems for countries down stream.
What is dam building.
100
These are the waterways connected by the Strait of Hormuz.
What are the Persian Gulf and the Arabian Sea?
100
These are the two economically most important natural resources of SW Asia.
What are oil and natural gas?
200
This waterway forms part of the boundary between Israel, Jordan, and Syria
What is the Jordan River?
200
These are the geographic features that the name Mesopotamia refers to.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates rivers?
200
The use of this has caused a buildup of salt levels in soil in SW Asia, making farming impossible in some places and has caused water pollution through runoff.
What are chemical fertilizers?
200
This is the important waterway that all ships traveling in or out of the Persian Gulf must pass through.
What is the Strait of Hormuz?
200
This organization controls the supply and price of oil on the world marked.
What is OPEC?
300
Because they involve expensive technology, these two methods of obtaining valuable water are not used very often throughout SW Asia.
What are desalination and drip irrigation?
300
This was the discovery that allowed humans to create civilization in Mesopotamia
What is irrigation or agriculture?
300
The discovery of this in some SW Asian countries has caused rapid economic development while leaving behind countries that lack it.
What is oil?
300
What are many of the largest cities in SW Asia located on or near?
What are rivers?
300
Its what the name OPEC means.
What is Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries?
400
Water is a scarce commodity in SW Asia because the region has this type of climate
What is arid?
400
Before becoming civilized everybody had the same job. This was it.
What was hunter-gatherer?
400
These are the two most common reasons for dam building in SW Asia.
What are irrigation and hydroelectricity?
400
Bedouins are people who traditionally live in this type of geographic feature, which is plentiful in SW Asia.
What are deserts?
400
OPEC might enact one of these in order to keep oil from being sold to a particular country.
What is an embargo?
500
This is the waterway that is formed when the Tigris and Euphrates rivers join together.
What is the Shaat al-Arab?
500
The early form of written language developed in Mesopotamia.
What is cuneiform?
500
SW Asian countries whose economies depend mostly on oil are beginning to diversify because oil is this type of natural resource.
What is non-renewable?
500
This is the cause of the deserts located on the interior of SW Asia.
What is the rain shadow effect?
500
SW Asian countries such as Saudi Arabia and Kuwait could be said to do this with the production of oil.