Middle East Geography Flashcards
What terrorism groups are there in the Middle East?
Isis
Al Qaeda
Where is the northern Tier?
Turkey to Iran
What is a major geographic part of the Middle East?
Arabian peninsula
What is the Fertile Crescent?
Land of the 2 river
Tigris and Euphrates
Where is the Nile valley?
Egypt
Explain the northern tier
Very mountainy, Eurasia, very fertile, Noah’s ark?
What part of the Middle East connects Europe and Asia?
Northern tier
What is the size of the Arabian peninsula compared to the U.S.?
1/3
Explain the Arabian peninsula
No water, very flat, mostly desert, huge oil reserve, Saudi Arabia big-Mecca
What is the empty quarter?
Rub’al-khali
Islamic state took over parts
Why is the Middle East strategically important?
Oil, terrorism, Suez Canal, Iran nuclear proliferation
What takes up less thank 20% of the Middle East?
Desert oases
Water premium
What is in the Tigris and Euphrates valleys?
Fertile Crescent
Where was Mesopotamia and Samaria?
Fertile Crescent
What is Mesopotamia also know as?
Land between 2 rivers
What is Kuwait also know as?
An island floating on a sea of oil
What is the lowest point on earth?
Dead Sea
How far is the Dead Sea below sea level?
2,300
Why is the salt content in the Dead Sea
33%
Where is the Nile valley?
Northern Africa
Egypt
What supported Egyptian civilization?
Nile valley
Why is it called gift of the niles?
95% of the people live on 5% of the land
Nile delta
What is the most populated city in the Middle East?
Cairo Egypt
How many people live in Cairo?
17,000,000
