Southwest Asia Review Game
Feb 22, 2016
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