View
3
Download
0
Category
Preview:
Citation preview
The Cradle of Civilization
• Where a society of humans began
• Iraq more specifically
• Tigris and Euphrates run through
today’s Baghdad
The Fertile Crescent
The birthplace of civilization!!!
4 Geographical
Regions of Middle East:
• 1. North Africa
• 2. Arabian Peninsula
• 3. Eastern Mediterranean
• 4. Iran
Bodies of Water
Tigris River
Nile River
Euphrates River Jordan
River
Arabian Sea
Indian Ocean
Black Sea
Gulf of Aden
Strait of Hormuz
Suez Canal
Dardanelles Strait
Atlantic Ocean
Gulf of
Oman
The Mighty Nile River: “Longest River in the World”
Egypt: The “Gift of the Nile”
Annual Nile Flooding
Nile Delta
95% of the Egyptian
people live on 5% of the
land!
Aswan High Dam, Egypt
Hydroelectric
Power Plant
Help control
the Nile River
Suez Canal Completed by the British in 1869
Connects the Mediterranean Sea
to the Red Sea
The Tigris & Euphrates River System
Mesopotamia:
”Land Between the Two Rivers”
Marsh Arabs, So. Iraq
Dust Storms Along the Tigris-Euphrates Flood Plains
The Jordan River
System:
Israel & Jordan--A Fight Over
Water Rights?
Dead Sea: Lowest Point on Earth
Highest
Salt
Content
(33%)
1350’ below sea level
Wadis – Instant Springs
Mountains & Plateaus
Atlas Mts. Zagros Mts.
Iranian Plateau
Anatolian Plateau
Caucasus Mts.
Mountain Ranges in Mid-East
Elburz Mts., Iran Zagros Mts., Iran
Lebanese Mts. Taurus Mts., Turkey
Deserts
Sahara Desert
Arabian Desert
Negev Desert
Sinai Desert
Libyan Desert
Rub al-Khali
Desert Bedouins
Breeding Areas of Desert Locusts
Swarms of Desert Locusts!
Locusts Swarm the
Pyramids Complex at
Giza!
Israel Hit By Worst Locust
Plague Since the 1950s!
Rub al-Khali: “The Empty Quarter”
One of the driest regions
in world – mostly
uninhabited & unexplored
The Middle East: Natural Vegetation
The Natural Resources of the Middle East
Fresh Groundwater Sources
Desalinization Plants
Middle East: Climate Regions
Middle East: Population Density
• PCGDP - $31, 500
• Democratic
• Life Expectancy - 81
• Technology
• Exports
• Literacy Rate- 97%
Most Developed Nation in ME:
Israel
World Oil Reserves
75% of the world’s oil
reserves are in the Middle
East
Persian Gulf Oil Exports (2003)
Saudi Oil Fields & Refineries
Kuwait: An Island Floating on a Sea of Oil
Kuwait
City
• What does it do?
1. Controls worldwide oil prices
2. Adjusts oil prices & production
3. POWERFUL!!!!
4. Includes: Saudi Arabia, Kuwait,
Qatar, UAE, Iran & Iraq
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)
Recommended