Southwest Asia & North Africa #1
Which of the following words best describes the climate of this region?
Arid -- Equatorial -- Humid -- Temperate
What is arid?
According to the Bible, this person gave the Jewish people the promised land.
Who is God?
A piece of land almost surrounded by water or projecting out into a body of water.
What is a peninsula?
Which religion is associated with the Koran (Qur'an)?
What is Islam?
The most holy city in Islam.
What is Mecca?
The two rivers in modern-day Iraq where the earliest civilizations formed.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates River?
Name a Pull factor that would cause migration to a different country.
What are jobs or a strong economy?
Caused the deaths of over 6 million Jews.
What is the Holocaust?
the supply of water to land or crops to help growth, typically by means of channels.
What is irrigation?
Before the construction of the Suez Canal, ships would have to go around what continent to get to the Americas?
What is Africa?
What characteristic do Judaism, Christianity, and Islam all share?
What is a belief in one god?
What is the largest country on the Arabian Peninsula?
What is Saudi Arabia?
OPEC stands for
Organizations of the Petroleum Exporting Countries
Removes salt from seawater, as well as minerals from undrinkable ground water
What is desalination
The religion started by the Prophet Muhammad.
What is Islam?
Name a water body we have talked about in this region
What is...
Mediterranean Sea, Red Sea, Persian Gulf, Tigris River, Euphrates River, The Nile River, The Suez Canal
What is the main characteristic of arable land?
What is suitable for farming?
Deficient in quantity or number compared with the demand : not plentiful or abundant.
What is scarcity?
What industry contributes most to the economy of the Arabian Peninsula?
What is the oil industry?
What group moved into the territory of Israel after the Jewish diaspora?
What are Arabs?
The two most practiced religions in the world today.
What are Christianity & Islam?
Someone who is forced to leave their country due to war, persecution or other reasons.
What is a refugee?
The Holy Site for Jews where they pray and put their prayers in the wall.
What is the Western Wall or the Wailing Wall?
Laborers who travel to a country specifically for work, stay may be temporary.
What are migrant workers?
Name an ally of Israel
Australia, France, Canada, United States, United Kingdom, Norway, Austria, Germany, India, Italy.
This body of water is located south of the Zagros Mountains and east of the Arabian Peninsula
What is the Persian Gulf?
Unfairly prejudiced for or against someone or something.
What is biased?
Largest religion in the world?
What is Christianity?
Helped to spread culture, including religion, ideas, and goods.
What is trade?
What allowed agriculture to flourish along the Nile River?
What is predictable flooding (silt)?
The man-made waterway that connects the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea.
What is the Suez Canal?
An ancient writing system used by the Egyptians that involves pictures representing letters
What it hieroglyphics?
One of the world's saltiest bodies of water, located between Israel and Jordan. Often referred to by a specific name because there is no plants or fish able to live in it.
What is the Dead Sea
Suez Canal was finished being built and officially opened in what year?
What is... 1869
A historical region in West Asia situated within the Tigris–Euphrates river system, often called the "Cradle of Civilization" for being the site of some of the earliest human innovations.
What is Mesopotamia?
Capital city of Israel.
What is Jerusalem?
What resulted from the agricultural revolution in Mesopotamia?
What is advanced civilizations developed?
Where Judaism, Christianity and Islam's holy sites are located.
What is Jeruselum?
The largest exporter of petroleum.
What is Saudi Arabia?
What is the capital of Egypt
What is Cairo
About how many inches of rain does the Sahara Desert receive per year?
What is less than four inches?
What is the capital of UAE?
What is Abu Dhabi
The belief that Jews should have their own homeland or nation in order to be safe from persecution.
What is Zionism?
Around 3400–3000 BC in Mesopotamia, the Sumerians developed the earliest known system of writing. What is it called?
What is cuneiform?
One goal of OPEC.
What is stable or fair pricing?