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Where Am I?
Environmental Issues
Religions
Oil
Grab Bag
100
South of Turkey and north of Saudi Arabia
What is Iraq?
100
Main environmental issue in the Middle East
What is water scarcity, pollution, and unequal distribution?
100
The most prominent religion in this region
What is Islam?
100
I am the world's largest producer of oil.
What is Saudi Arabia?
100
Type of land found most often in SW Asia
What is desert?
200
Easternmost country in SW Asia
What is Afghanistan?
200
Cause of conflict between Turkey, Syria, and Iraq
What is the damming of the Euphrates River?
200
The oldest religion in the region
What is Judaism?
200
We are the most populated oil-rich countries.
What are Iran and Iraq?
200
Worn to reflect sun and stay cool
What is light-colored clothing?
300
Largest country in SW Asia
What is Saudi Arabia?
300
Happens to the environment when pesticides and fertilizers runoff into water sources
What is water pollution?
300
Two divisions of Islam
What are Shia and Sunni?
300
Percentage of oil found in the Middle East
What is 50%?
300
What area between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers is commonly called
What is Fertile Crescent?
400
I am the eastern "twin."
What is the Tigris River?
400
Trees are cut down and soil erodes leaving vast expanses of empty, barren land.
What is desertification?
400
Founder(s) of Judaism, Islam, and Christianity
Who are Abraham, Muhammad, and followers of Jesus?
400
Type of population found around me
What is dense?
400
I am scarce in SW Asia.
What is water?
500
I let ships pass from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea.
What is the Suez Canal?
500
Using land so much that the soil has no nutrients.
What is overuse of land for farming?
500
Monotheism
What is what all three prominent religions in the region have in common?
500
Turkey and Afghanistan serve as this for oil moving from one area to another.
What is transportation hub or link?
500
Process of removing salt from seawater
What is desalination?