Map study 1

Question 1

What is the largest religious group in the Middle East?

Answer 1

Muslims

Question 2

Name the two most important natural resources in the Middle East?

Answer 2

Oil, natural Gas

Question 3

What is the largest city in the Middle East?

Answer 3

Istanbul

Question 4

What three peninsulas are in the Middle East?

Answer 4

Sinai, Arabian, and Asia Minor

Question 5

Which countries of the Middle East are on the continent of Africa?

Answer 5

Egypt and Sudan

Question 6

Name the longest river in the Middle East.

Answer 6

The Nile River

Question 7

Though what countries does the Nile run?

Answer 7

Sudan and Egypt

Question 8

Into what body of water does the Nile empty?

Answer 8

Persian Gulf

Question 9

Though what countries does the the Tigris and Euphrates rivers run?

Answer 9

Turkey, Syria, and Iraq

Question 10

Into what body of water does the Tigris and Euphrates rivers empty?

Answer 10

PersianGulf

Question 11

What two bodies of water does the Suez Canal connect?

Answer 11

The Red Sea and the Mediterranean Sea

Question 12

What two countries in the middle east are islands?

Answer 12

Bahrain and Cyprus

Question 13

What vast desert covers most of Northern Africa?

Answer 13

Sahara Desert

Question 14

Which major desert is located in southern Saudi Arabia?

Answer 14

Ru bal Khali

Question 15

What import latitude line crossed the Middle East

Answer 15

Tropic of Cancer

Question 16

Which country lies in
both Europe and Asia?

Answer 16

Turkey