Ch. 17 and Ch. 18

Question 1

What body of water is nine times saltier than the ocean?

Answer 1

Dead Sea

Question 2

What is the large inland body of water?

Answer 2

Caspian Sea

Question 3

How long is the Nile River?

Answer 3

4160 miles

Question 4

What is known as “ the land between two rivers?” What countries does it irrigate?

Answer 4

Mesopotamia;

Syria, Turkey, and Iraq

Question 5

What two river surrounds Mesopotamia?

Answer 5

Tigris and Euphrates

Question 6

What is Africa’s longest mountain chain?

Answer 6

Atlas Mountains

Question 7

What body of water separates Europe and Africa?

Answer 7

Mediterranean Sea

Question 8

What do Algerians mainly farm?

Answer 8

Barley, wheat, and oats

Question 9

What is the most agriculturally productive area on the Arabian Peninsula?

Answer 9

Asir Mountains

Question 10

How much rain do the Asir Mountains get?

Answer 10

19 inches per year

Question 11

What is significant about Mount Ararat?

Answer 11

Noah’s Arc rested between the two peaks of the mountain

Question 12

What is known as the black sand deser?

Answer 12

Garagum

Question 13

What is know as the red sand desert?

Answer 13

Qizilqum

Question 14

Which country has the world’s largest supply of sulfate and largest deposit of sulfur?

Answer 14

Turkmenistan

Question 15

The Middle East contains 70% of the world’s _______________.

Answer 15

known oil reserves

Question 16

Describe ethnic diversity.

Answer 16

Many different cultural groups or races

Question 17

Approximately how many people in the Middle East are Arabic?

Answer 17

275 million

Question 18

What is the official language of the Arabs?

Answer 18

Arabic

Question 19

What did the Turks build?

Answer 19

The Ottoman Empire

Question 20

How long did the Ottoman Empire rule?

Answer 20

over 600 years

Question 21

What did Turks do that was uncommon in most Islamic nations?

Answer 21

They blended Western elements

Question 22

What language do Iranians speak?

Answer 22

Farsi

Question 23

What is the main religion in Iran?

Answer 23

90% Shiite Muslims

Question 24

What group of people make up 90% of Armenia?

Answer 24

Armenians

Question 25

What happened to the Armenians at the hands of the Ottoman Turks?

Answer 25

over 1 million were killed, deported, or died from illness in 1915

Question 26

What group of people had no country of their own?

Answer 26

Kurds

Question 27

Which people were considered Kurds?

Answer 27

those who lived in the border areas of Turkey, Iraq, and Syria

Question 28

Explain what happened in the 1967 Arab-Israeli War

Answer 28

Israel won the Golan Heights (a third of their water) from Syria and refused to give it back

Question 29

What are the most populous countries in the Middle East?

Answer 29

Turkey, Egypt, and Iran

Question 30

What are some problems of rapid urbanization?

Answer 30

not enough jobs or housing,
poverty,
snarled traffic,
pollution,
sanitation issues