Terms To know

Question 1

These are across northern Turkey and along the Black Sea. What is it?

Answer 1

The Pontic Mountains

Turkey

Question 2

These are in the mountain system area of Israel and the mountain ranges in Lebanon . What is this?

Answer 2

Lebanon and Anti-Lebanon mountains

Lebanon

Question 3

Explain the mandate of Palestine

Answer 3

• British mandate from the Ottoman Empire
• British kept mandate until 1948- area becomes two nations= Israel and Jordan
• Palestine called the Holy Land

Question 4

This is a mountain where it considers its Home in Asia Minor. What is it?

Answer 4

Mount Ararat

Turkey

Question 5

Explain Masada

Answer 5

-means fortress or stronghold
-romans took over Jerusalem 70 AD
-Masada became the last place 4jews
-Romans surrounded the mountain
-taking 2 years to finally get into mas.
-find only the dead
- 960 inhabitants killed themselves
Israel

Question 6

This is another word for the Hebrew parliament. What is it?

Answer 6

Knesset

Israel

Question 7

These are dry stream beds that fill when it rains. What is it?

Answer 7

Wadis

Israel

Question 8

He is called Father of the Turks and gained control of Turkey in 1923. Who is he?

Answer 8

Kemal Atatürk

Turkey

Question 9

Gets passed through on the way to the Aegean and Mediterranean Sea. What is it?

Answer 9

The Strait of Dardanelles

Question 10

Explain Thrace

Answer 10

• part of the European Balkan Peninsula
• Mediterranean climate and good for agriculture
• Home of the Istanbul- largest city in Middle East

Turkey

Question 11

This is where golan heights is northeast of and is found in the mountains of galilee. What is it?

Answer 11

The Sea of Galilee

Question 12

Jordan gets resources from here. What is it?

Answer 12

Great Rift Valley

Jordan

Question 13

Explain Negev

Answer 13

1-Historical Negev
Has some agriculture&Abraham and Isaac settled in Beersheba
2-wilderness zin
Wadis cut through mtns& largest center Maktesh Ramon called Grand Canyon of Israel
3- Arabah
Barren valley, descends in2 Dead Sea, Elat only port on the Red Sea, use salt water to grow tomatoes, peanuts, cotton-called brackish water agriculture Israel

Question 14

Explain the 6 day war

Answer 14

1967- Egypt, Syria, Jordan planning attack on Israel.
-Israel attacks 1st& takes Egypt’s Sinai peninsula, Syria’s Golan Heights, the West Bank of the Jordan River, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem

Question 15

This is land southeast of turkey along the eastern Mediterranean. What is it?

Answer 15

Levant

Syria