Southwest Asia - 21st Century Challenges

Question 1

What questions need to be answered in Southwest Asia?

Answer 1

Questions about: water distribution, government (and its relation to religion), traditional vs modern, housing, and more.

Question 2

All over the Middle East, governments must deal with large numbers of ___.

Answer 2

Refugees.

Question 3

A spontaneous movement in several countries trying to throw off dictatorships has been called the ___.

Answer 3

Arab Spring.

Question 4

The Golan Heights separate Syria from ___.

Answer 4

Israel.

Question 5

In much of the Middle East, water and land are controlled by ___.

Answer 5

A few rich families.

Question 6

One important question for the 21st Century which is being handled in different ways by different countries is the ___.

Answer 6

Role of women.

Question 7

As oil revenue is used to purchase infrastructure improvements, the traditional __ of the Arab world is changing.

Answer 7

Landscape.

Question 8

Whoever controls the Golan Heights controls the ___.

Answer 8

Water.

Question 9

Minority groups in many Middle Eastern countries, which have very few rights, are the ___.

Answer 9

Guest Workers.

Question 10

Building dams in the Turkish mountains will take water away from millions of people downstream in ______.

Answer 10

Iraq.