Physical Geography
This climate type is common along the Mediterranean Sea.
What is the Mediterranean climate?
These nomadic people move from oasis to oasis due to scarce water.
Who are the Bedouins?
This resource brought major economic growth to SWANA countries.
What is oil?
This group lives across Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Iran but has no independent country.
Who are the Kurds?
Judaism, Christianity, and Islam all share this religious characteristic.
What is being monotheistic?
Vegetation in most SWANA regions is limited to this type because of arid conditions.
What is desert or desert scrub vegetation?
These two characteristics define much of SWANA’s cultural identity.
What are Islam and Arabic?
This organization controls global oil production levels.
What is OPEC?
Israel’s borders have changed repeatedly due to this.
What are conflicts with neighboring countries?
This city is sacred only to Muslims.
What is Mecca?
These two rivers supported early civilizations in SWANA.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates rivers?
What is job opportunity from oil wealth attracting foreign workers
The UAE’s population is rapidly increasing due to this factor.
Wealthy oil countries like Saudi Arabia can afford this expensive water-cleaning process.
What is desalination?
Israel wanted control of this area for strategic distance and access to the Suez Canal.
What is the Sinai Peninsula?
This city is sacred to all three major monotheistic religions.
What is Jerusalem?
This physical feature borders Israel and Jordan and is the lowest point on Earth’s surface.
What is the Dead Sea?
This law limits women’s rights in many SWANA countries.
What is Shari’a law?
The Strait of Hormuz is important because blocking it can disrupt this.
What is oil trade?
Access to this natural resource often creates border tensions.
What is freshwater?
Religion in SWANA strongly influences daily life and these cultural elements.
What are institutions and traditions?
This physical process caused thousands of deaths in Turkey and Syria.
What are earthquakes?
This resource is scarce in SWANA and causes many regional conflicts.
What is freshwater?
Oil wealth has impacted development in SWANA by increasing these opportunities.
What is economic development/modernization?
The Arab Spring started because citizens demanded these government changes.
What are democracy, human rights, and less corruption?
This factor makes SWANA a culturally united region despite political differences.
What is shared religious tradition?