Southwest Asia - Physical Overview Flashcards
What is another name for Southwest Asia?
The Middle East.
What is the large peninsula of Southwest Asia?
The Arabian Peninsula.
What is the main highway of Southwest Asia?
The Persian Gulf.
What are the two Straits?
The Bosphorus(?) Strait and the Dardanelles(?) Strait.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
The Fertile Crescent is a fertile area between the Tigris River and the Euphrates River.
The Arabian Peninsula is bordered by the Red Sea and the ___.
Persian Gulf.
There is an extremely busy waterway from the Red Sea through the ___ to Europe and the rest of the world.
Suez Canal.
The desert climate of Southwest Asia force people to ___.
Live by water.
Both the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf are ___ making them strategic locations.
Busy waterways.
The Anatolian Peninsula is bordered by the Black Sea and the ___. Most of this land is the country of Turkey.
Mediterranean Sea.
The Turkish city of ______ is located on the waterway from Russia where the Black Sea and the Mediterranean Sea meet.
Istanbul.
