Southwest Asia Review

Game

What is the What is the name of this name of this body of body of water?water?

Mediterranean Mediterranean SeaSea

What is the What is the name of this name of this landform?landform?

Rub al Khali Desert

What is the name of the strait at the What is the name of the strait at the southern end of the Persian Gulf? southern end of the Persian Gulf?

Strait of Hormuz

What is the What is the name of this name of this body of body of water?water?

Dead Sea

What is the What is the name of this name of this country?country?

TurkeyTurkey

The Tigris and Euphrates Rivers meet in The Tigris and Euphrates Rivers meet in which county?which county?

Iraq

The Suez Canal links what two The Suez Canal links what two bodies of water?bodies of water?

Mediterranean Sea & Red Sea

What is the What is the name of this name of this body of body of water?water?

Black SeaBlack Sea

What is the What is the name of this name of this river?river?

Euphrates Euphrates

RiverRiver

What is the What is the name of this name of this body of body of water?water?

Arabian SeaArabian Sea

Which bodies of water are Which bodies of water are connected by the Strait of Hormuzconnected by the Strait of Hormuz

The Arabian Sea and the Persian Gulf

Where are over half of the world’s oil Where are over half of the world’s oil reserves found? reserves found?

The Middle East

What makes it possible to get to the What makes it possible to get to the Mediterranean Sea from the Arabian Sea Mediterranean Sea from the Arabian Sea

without having to sail around the without having to sail around the continent of Africa?continent of Africa?

The Suez Canal

What is the What is the name of this name of this country?country?

AfghanistanAfghanistan

In which country are the Gaza Strip In which country are the Gaza Strip and the West Bank located?and the West Bank located?

Israel

What is the What is the name of this name of this body of body of water?water?

Suez CanalSuez Canal

What country is the Sinai Peninsula a part What country is the Sinai Peninsula a part of?of?

Egypt

What river runs through Syria, What river runs through Syria, Israel, and Jordan?Israel, and Jordan?

Jordan River

What river forms a boundary between Israel What river forms a boundary between Israel and Jordan?and Jordan?

Jordan River

What is the What is the name of this name of this river?river?

Euphrates Euphrates

RiverRiver

What is the What is the name of this name of this body of body of water?water?

Red SeaRed Sea

Out of the different landforms we Out of the different landforms we have studied, which is man made??have studied, which is man made??

Canals

What does OPEC stand for?What does OPEC stand for?

Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries

What is the process of using computers to What is the process of using computers to measure out how much water a plant measure out how much water a plant

gets?gets?

Drip Irrigation

What waterway connects the What waterway connects the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Mediterranean Sea and the Red

Sea?Sea?

Suez Canal

What is the What is the name of this name of this landform?landform?

Sinai Sinai PeninsulaPeninsula

What is the What is the name of this name of this country?country?

Israel Israel

What is the What is the name of this name of this river?river?

Tigris River Tigris River

Which Middle Eastern Country is Which Middle Eastern Country is located in both Europe and located in both Europe and

Asia?Asia?

Turkey

What is the term for the removal of salt What is the term for the removal of salt from water? from water?

Desalination

What body of water connects the What body of water connects the Arabian Sea to the Persian Gulf?Arabian Sea to the Persian Gulf?

Strait of Hormuz

What is the What is the name of this name of this river?river?

Jordan River Jordan River

What meets the Euphrates River in Iraq? What meets the Euphrates River in Iraq?

Tigris River

What is the What is the name of this name of this country?country?

IraqIraq

What is the What is the name of this name of this body of body of water?water?

Persian GulfPersian Gulf

What is the What is the name of this name of this country?country?

IranIran

What county borders Iran to the west?

Iraq

What is the climate of Southwest Asia?

Arid

What is the name of the body of water with What is the name of the body of water with the highest salt volume in the world? the highest salt volume in the world?

Dead Sea

What is the What is the name of this name of this body of body of water?water?

Strait of Strait of HormuzHormuz

What is the What is the name of this name of this body of body of water?water?

Black SeaBlack Sea

What is the What is the name of this name of this body of body of water?water?

Mediterranean Mediterranean SeaSea

The Tigris and Euphrates Rivers run through The Tigris and Euphrates Rivers run through which county?which county?

Iraq

What two countries share a border at the What two countries share a border at the Sinai Peninsula?Sinai Peninsula?

Egypt and Israel

What is the What is the name of this name of this landform?landform?

Rub al Khali Desert

Why is the Dead Sea called the Dead Sea?Why is the Dead Sea called the Dead Sea?

Nothing can survive there

What is the What is the name of this name of this country?country?

TurkeyTurkey

The Suez Canal is linked The Suez Canal is linked together by what two bodies of together by what two bodies of

water?water?

Mediterranean Sea & Red Sea

What is the climate of Southwest Asia?What is the climate of Southwest Asia?

Arid

What is the What is the name of this name of this body of body of water?water?

Black SeaBlack Sea

What is the What is the name of this name of this river?river?

Euphrates Euphrates

RiverRiver

What is the What is the name of this name of this body of body of water?water?

Arabian SeaArabian Sea

What 3 continents meet in the Middle East? What 3 continents meet in the Middle East?

Africa, Asia, Europe

What 3 continents meet in the Middle East?What 3 continents meet in the Middle East?

Africa, Asia, Europe