Southwest Asia Review

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What is the name of this body of water?

Mediterranean Sea

What is the name of this landform?

Rub al Khali Desert

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

Strait of Hormuz

What is the name of this body of water?

Dead Sea

What is the name of this country?

Turkey

The Tigris and Euphrates Rivers meet in which county?

Iraq

The Suez Canal links what two bodies of water?

Mediterranean Sea & Red Sea

What is the name of this body of water?

Black Sea

What is the name of this river?

Euphrates

River

What is the name of this body of water?

Arabian Sea

Which bodies of water are connected by the Strait of Hormuz

The Arabian Sea and the Persian Gulf

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

The Middle East

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

without having to sail around the continent of Africa?

The Suez Canal

What is the name of this country?

Afghanistan

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

Israel

What is the name of this body of water?

Suez Canal

What country is the Sinai Peninsula a part of?

Egypt

What river runs through Syria, Israel, and Jordan?

Jordan River

What river forms a boundary between Israel and Jordan?

Jordan River

What is the name of this river?

Euphrates

River

What is the name of this body of water?

Red Sea

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

Canals

What waterway connects the Mediterranean Sea and the Red

Sea?

Suez Canal

What is the name of this landform?

Sinai Peninsula

What is the name of this country?

Israel

What is the name of this river?

Tigris River

Which Middle Eastern Country is located in both Europe and

Asia?

Turkey

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

Desalination

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

Strait of Hormuz

What is the name of this river?

Jordan River

What meets the Euphrates River in Iraq?

Tigris River

What is the name of this country?

Iraq

What is the name of this body of water?

Persian Gulf

What is the name of this country?

Iran

What county borders Iran to the west?

Iraq

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

Dead Sea

What is the name of this body of water?

Strait of Hormuz

What is the name of this body of water?

Black Sea

What is the name of this body of water?

Mediterranean Sea

The Tigris and Euphrates Rivers run through which county?

Iraq

What two countries share a border at the Sinai Peninsula?

Egypt and Israel

What is the name of this landform?

Rub al Khali Desert

Why is the Dead Sea called the Dead Sea?

Nothing can survive there

What is the name of this country?

Turkey

The Suez Canal is linked together by what two bodies of

water?

Mediterranean Sea & Red Sea

What is the name of this body of water?

Black Sea

What is the name of this river?

Euphrates

River

What is the name of this body of water?

Arabian Sea

What 3 continents meet in the Middle East?

Africa, Asia, Europe

What 3 continents meet in the Middle East?

Africa, Asia, Europe