Efforts to conserve this valuable resource have been a part of the culture of the people living in this region for thousands of years.
What is water.
100
This city is considered the "holiest city of Islam"...
What is Mecca.
100
The principal resource in the economy of the Arabian Peninsula is...
What is oil.
100
A landlocked salt lake so salty that nothing can survive in it.
What is the Dead Sea?
200
These riverbeds remain dry except during rainy seasons.
What is wadis.
200
These nomadic desert dwellers moved across the Arabian Peninsula from oasis to oasis and built a culture based on strong family ties.
What is Bedouins.
200
This prophet is known as the founder of Islam...
What is Muhammad.
200
This region exports more petroleum than the amount consumed.
What is Southwest Asia.
200
The Anatolian Peninsula is located between these two seas.
What is the Black Sea and the Mediterranean Sea.
300
These mountains on the western side of Iran help isolate the country from the rest of Southwest Asia.
What is the Zagros Mountains.
300
Thousands died in the 1967 war when Syria and Israel fought over control of this hilly plateau overlooking the Jordan River and the sea of Galilee.
What is the Golan Heights or Al Jawlan.
300
Modern Jews come to pray at the holiest site in Jerusalem, a portion of the Second Temple known as the...
What is the Western Wall.
300
The largest oil spill ever recorded occurred in January 1991, during this war.
What is the Persian Gulf War.
300
Water pumped from underground aquifers.
What is fossil water?
400
Most famous desert in the region and known as "Place where no one comes out"
What is Rub al-Khali
400
Much of Southwest Asia fell under the control of these two nations, especially after World War I and the breakup of the Muslim-held Ottoman Empire.
What is Britain and France.
400
Christians visit these two holy sites in Jerusalem.
What is the Mount of Olives and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.
400
This organization is in charge of coordinating policies on selling petroleum products...
What is the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries.
400
The narrow passageway leading from the Arabian Sea to the Persian Gulf...
What is the Straits of Hormuz.
500
These mountains in Iran cut off easy access to the Caspian Sea.
What is the Elburz Mountains.
500
This daring leader consolidated power over large areas of the Arabian Peninsula. By the end of the 1920's only small countries on the Persian gulf and parts of Yemen remained free of his control.
What is Abdul al-Aziz.
500
The movement whose goal was to reestablish a Jewish state in the Jewish homeland.
What is Zionism.
500
This country generates about one-half of its GDP from petroleum.
What is Kuwait.
500
These two rivers supported ancient river valley civilizations in the Fertile Crescent.