Objective & Standard

Identify and describe ways in which humans have used technology to modify the physical environment in order to settle areas in different world regions.

• GHW.9.3

Physical Geography

Southwest Asia

Or

Middle East

Landforms and Resources

Mountains:• Golan Heights- Border Israel & Syria 1967

• Hindu Kush- Afghanistan: Where’s Waldo?

Peninsulas:• Anatolia- Turkey

• Arabian- Saudi Arabia

Bodies of Water:• Tigris & Euphrates Rivers: Fertile Crescent

• Mesopotamia

• Jordan River: Lebanon into Israel• Dead Sea:

• Wadis: dry riverbeds until rain

Landforms and Resources

Resources:• OIL- “Black Gold”

“Texas Tea”• Rub al-Khali desert

• Refineries

• OPEC- Oil Producing & Exporting Countries

• Risks with Oil• Spills

• Wars

Landforms and Resources

Which of the following is not a peninsula found in SW Asia?

1. Anatolian

2. Algerian

3. Arabian

Anatolia

n

Algeria

n

Arabian

33% 33%33%

Which river is not one of the two that borders the fertile crescent?

1. Jordan

2. Euphrates

3. Tigris

Jord

an

Euphrates

Tigris

33% 33%33%

Which river flows into the Dead Sea?

1. Jordan

2. Euphrates

3. Tigris

4. Nile

Jord

an

Euphrates

Tigris

Nile

25% 25%25%25%

A ____ is a riverbed that has water only after a heavy rain?

1. Kum

2. Wadi

3. Barrage

4. Oasis

Kum

Wad

i

Barrage

Oasis

25% 25%25%25%

OPEC stands for …..

1. Oil Producing and Exploiting Countries

2. Oil Producing and Exporting Countries

Oil Pro

ducing and Exp

loi...

Oil Pro

ducing and Exp

ort...

50%50%

Climate & Vegetation

Arid Climate: • What is an Arid Climate?

Deserts:• Rub al Khali

• “Empty Quarter” or “Place Where No One Comes Out”

• Size of Texas/ 186 F on sand/ 10 years w/o rain

• Salt Flats• Iran due to Rain Shadow

Human Environment Interaction

Irrigation Systems • Drip Irrigation

• Agricultural hearth

Dam Building Desalinization Fossil Water:

• aquifers

Objective & Standard

Identify and describe ways in which humans have used technology to modify the physical environment in order to settle areas in different world regions.

• GHW.9.3

• Drip Irrigation Systems

• Desalinization Plants