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Middle East Geography Ppt

1. What bodies of water border the Arabian Peninsula?

2. The middle east separates what two large land masses?

3. What two geographic features make up a majority of Southwest Asia

4. Why are the Tigris and Euphrates rivers called “The cradle of civilization?”

5. How have the Tigris and Euphrates rivers helped Iraq’s agriculture?

6. List two differences between the Syrian Desert and the Rub’ al -Khali Desert.

7. What are two ways people have adapted to living in a desert?

8. What is the desert’s most important resource to the Western World? Why?

9. What is the desert’s most important resource to people of the desert? Why?

10. Describe the three processes people of the desert use to gather fresh water where there is no stream or wadis.

11. List all naturally occurring water sources and list all human-made water sources. What is the difference

between the two?

12. Which water sources are reliable and unreliable?