Vocab
This is a natural fuel found underground used to make gasoline.
What is crude oil?
Name one way countries use oil wealth to improve infrastructure.
What are roads, schools, or hospitals?
This event started the Persian Gulf War.
What is Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait?
Selling oil to other countries is called this.
What is export?
What is the climate of the Middle East?
What is hot and dry?
A supply of oil that has been discovered but not yet used.
What are oil reserves?
Name three things oil is used for.
What are gasoline, plastics, and heating?
Why did oil-importing countries like the U.S. join the Gulf War Coalition?
What is to protect oil supplies?
Buying oil from other countries is called this.
What is import?
Name one thing the Middle East does not have much of.
What is water?
A resource that cannot be easily replaced once it is used up.
What is a nonrenewable resource?
Why is it important for oil-rich countries to diversify their economies?
What is to avoid economic collapse if oil prices drop?
Why did oil-exporting countries like Saudi Arabia join the Gulf War Coalition?
What is to prevent Iraq from controlling oil?
This organization works to control oil prices.
What is OPEC?
Why does the U.S. still import oil even though it is the largest producer?
What is because of its high population, which requires imports to keep oil prices in the U.S. low?
A type of energy that can be replaced naturally over time.
What is a renewable resource?
Why did oil prices drop in 2020?
What is decreased demand due to COVID-19?
What is the main ethnic group in the Middle East?
What are Arabs?
A country that depends too much on oil may have problems if this drops.
What is oil price?
What is one economic challenge Middle Eastern countries face due to oil reliance?
What is economic instability when prices drop?
Name two types of renewable energy sources.
What are solar and wind energy?
Name one country that heavily depends on oil wealth.
What is Saudi Arabia?
What is the most common religion in the Middle East?
What is Islam?
When oil production increases, this usually decreases.
What is the price of oil?
Bonus: What would happen if the world stopped using oil?
What is the world would start using renewable resources like wind and solar energy?