Ch.17 Flashcards
What is significant about the Dead Sea?
9 times saltier than the oceans
What is the largest inland body of water?
Caspian Sea(Kyrgyzstan)
What is the longest river in the world?
The Nile(4,160 mi)
What percentage of people in Egypt live along the Nile?
90%
What is Mesopotamia?
Land between two rivers(Tigris and Euphrates)where civilization stands
What is the longest mountain chain in Africa?
Atlas(Morocco and Algeria)
What percentage of people are farmers in the Atlas region and why?
50%;due to the mountains(harvest barley,oats,and wheat)
What are the Asir mountains?
Mountains on the west coast of the Arabian peninsula(most agriculturally productive area(19 in of rain per year)
What is the significance of Mt.ararat?
Two peaks,and is believed to be the resting place of Noah’s ark
What is the garagum desert?(karakum)
Black sand desert,covers Turkmenistan(door to hell is here)
What is the qizilgum desert?
Red sand desert,covers 1/2 of Uzbekistan
What is the percentage if oil reserves found here in the ME?
70%
What is the percentage of natural gas in the ME?
33%
What are the resources abundant in Turkmenistan?
Largest supply of sulfur and sulfate
What is the language of the Arabians?
Arabic
Why are many Arabians against Israel?
Is a Jewish state in the middle of a Muslim world,and displaced many Palestines(Arabs living in this area)as a result
How long did the Ottoman Empire rule?
600 years
What is different from the Turkic people’s culture from the rest of the ME?
They welcome western customs and ideas
What language do Iranians speak?
Farsi
How many Iranians are Shiite Muslim?
90%
Who persecuted the Christians in 1915?
Ottoman empire(killed 1M,deported,and died from illness)
Who are the Kurds?
No home,live on the border of Turkey Iraq Iran and Syria,mostly Muslim
Why are Syria and Israel arguing?
Israel owns the goland heights which carries 1/3 of Syria’s water supply. Israel refuses to give it to them causing border disputes(Arab-Israeli war of 1967)
What are the three most populous countries in the ME?
Turkey,Egypt,and Iran
