Landforms and Resources
This is the canal that divides the Middle East from Africa.
What is the Suez Canal?
This is the best description of the climate for the vast majority of the Middle East.
What is hot and dry?
This mountain cuts off Turkey from the rest of the Middle East.
What is Taurus Mountains?
This is the country located between Iraq and Afghanistan.
What is Iran?
Saudi Arabia produces this natural resource.
What is oil?
This is the name of the mountain range to the north of Azerbaijan
What are the Caucasas Mountains ?
These are the two most important resources in the Middle East.
What are water and oil?
The 2 rivers that start in Turkey and flow through Iraq.
What is Tigris and Euphrate?
This is an example of a source of water for an oasis.
What is Underground springs.
What is the United States?
These are the names of the two most important rivers in the Middle East.
What are the Tigris and the Euphrates?
This is the process of removing salt from salt water in order to make it suitable for farming and drinking.
What is desalination?
All of the countries that produce oil in the region depend on this body of water as a shipping route
What is the Persian Gulf?
Iraq invaded Kuwait primarily to gain control over this resource.
What is oil?
Between 1/4 and 1/2 of interstate wars are caused by...
What is oil?
This is the feature that makes up most of the Middle East.
What is desert?
In dry climate countries like Afghanistan and Iran, this is how farmers water crops (through directing water towards their crops).
What is irrigation?
A landlocked salt lake.
What is the Dead Sea?
A 120 mile man made waterway.
What is the Suez Canal?
A technique used to extract oil and natural gasses from the earth.
What is fracking?
What is the mountain range to the west of Iraq
What are the Zagros Mountains?
The climate of the Middle East has led much of the region to experience a scarcity of this.
What is rainfall?
This is a waterway that is between the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf where through which 20% of the world's oil passed through
What is the Strait of Hormuz?
This is how large the oil reserves are in the region
What is about one-half of the worlds supply.
The United States feels pressure to stop supporting this country, by the Arab members of OPEC possibly preventing oil sales.
What is Israel?