Environmental Issues
Explain Water pollution.
The contamination of streams, rivers, lakes, oceans, or groundwater with substances produced through human activities.
What natural resource is there not enough of in the Middle East?
Water
Name the three ethnic groups located in Southwest Asia.
Kurds, Persians, and Arabs.
Name the three main religious groups of Southwest Asia?
Islam, Christianity, and Judaism.
Which group of Muslims is larger?
Sunni
Describe the process of Desalination.
The removal of salt from seawater to make it usable for drinking and farming.
A fertile spot in a desert where water is found.
Oasis
What type of government does the Kurds
Presidential and Parliamentary democracy
What is the religion of most Persians?
Shi'a Islam
Who is the founder of Judaism?
Abraham
The barrier called that is restricting water flow.
Dam
Small groups of nomadic people in Arabia.
Sunni muslims
What modern country is the home to those who call themselves Persians?
Iran
What is the religion of most of the Arabs in Southwest Asia?
Sunni Islam
What is the place of origin for both Judaism and Christianity?
Israel
Legal right to use water from a river, stream, or other body for a purpose.
Water Rights
Why do people live near rivers?
For food, and Freshwater, also Transportation.
Which do Kurds share as part of their ethnic group?
The Kurdish Language
A religion based on the words of the Prophet Mohammed.
Islam
What is the Holy Book of Judaism?
Torah
What did Israel do to solve their lack of water supply?
People living in the deserts in Southwest Asia are called
Nomadic herders.
Do Kurds have their own country
Kurds do not have a country of their own. They wish to have a country called Kurdistan.
Religious group who relocated to Israel after World War 2, they believe in one God
Jews
Which religion is the oldest?
Judaism