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Vocabulary
Rivers
Arabian Peninsula
Plateaus
Miscellaneous
100
This is the term used to describe a dry climate
What is arid?
100
The Tigris and Euphrates rivers empty into this gulf
What is the Persian Gulf?
100
This is the raw material used to make oil
What is petroleum?
100
This is the term that describes the fracture in the earth's crust
What is a fault?
100
Name the country that we went to war with starting in 2003 when George W Bush was president.
What is Iraq?
200
This is the process by which water is moved from one place to another, usually from a major water source to an otherwise dry area
What is irrigation?
200
This is the name of the area surrounding and extending from the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers. Its unusually well-suited for farming.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
200
This the biggest country on the Arabian peninsula
What is Saudi Arabia?
200
This is the name of a fertile place in an otherwise dry area
What is an oasis?
200
This is the name of the Middle Eastern country that is currently in the middle of a serious Civil War
What is Syria?
300
This term describes a resource that cannot be replaced quickly
What is renewable?
300
This is the material which come from the rivers that helps make the soil fertile
What is silt?
300
This is how someone would describe the temperatures and rainfall of the Arabian peninsula
What is dry and hot (arid)?
300
This is the name used to describe the underground tunnels built in cities on the Iranian plateau
What are qanats?
300
This is the country that was invaded by the Russians during the 1970s
What is Afghanistan?
400
This is the process by which an area transforms from being fertile to arid
What is desertification?
400
This is the name of a flat area located near a river that experiences lots of flooding
What is an alluvial plain?
400
Describe the process by which petroleum is formed
Petroleum is made by the pressure and build up on buried organic materials over long period of time
400
Most of Turkey sits on this plateau
What is the Anatolian plateau?
400
This is the name of the longest river in the Middle East
What is the Euphrates River?
500
This is the name of the desert towards the south of the Arabian Peninsula
What is the Rub al Khali?
500
This is the name of the ancient people who lived between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
Who are the Mesopotamians?
500
These are three of the countries on the peninsula (there are 6 total)
What are Kuwait, Oman, Yemen, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain?
500
Seismic activity in this area created these two major physical features
What are the Zagros mountains and the Iranian plateau?
500
This is the name of the country ruled by Sharia law
What is Iran?