Geography Alive Reading Challenge CH.24

How would you describe Dubai 50 years ago?

•  It was a modern, prosperous city with one of the world's largest human-made harbors.
• It was a barren desert with very few scattered human settlements.
• It was a small town that had only recently been introduced to electricity.
  
•  It was under the waters of the Persian Gulf before the land was filled in.

What are oil reserves?

• petroleum that has been pumped from the ground and is waiting in large tanks to be used
• the estimated amount of oil still left to be discovered underground
•  the total amount of oil left on Earth
•  underground petroleum that has been discovered but remains unused

Large reserves of which other fuel can be found in Southwest Asia?

• uranium
• natural gas
•  wood
• hydrogen

What is one way in which oil has improved life in Southwest Asia?

• Money from oil sales has been used to provide medical care.
•  Oil has brought stability and peace to the entire region.
• Money from selling oil has completely eliminated poverty there.
• All leaders in this region have used money from oil sales to improve people's lives.

What is Southwest Asia's "hidden treasure"?

• water
• oil
• copper ore
• gold

One example of a renewable resource is

• oil.
• natural gas.
•  coal.
•  sunlight.

Why will the world have to rely on renewable resources at some point in the future?

• . Nonrenewable sources of energy, such as oil and natural gas, will be gone.
• . Leaders of many Southwest Asian nations will be unwilling to sell their resources.
• Anti-pollution laws are becoming much weaker, thus encouraging the use of renewable resources.
• Modern technology only works properly when powered by renewable resources.

The one nation in Southwest Asia that does not have a Muslim majority is

• Qatar.
•  Israel.
• Oman.
• Bahrain.
  

What keeps the underground oil and natural gas from rising to Earth's surface?

•  tectonic plates
•  geothermal energy
•  a layer of impermeable rock
•  underground pores and pockets

Why is so much of the world's oil buried under Southwest Asia?

•  This area was under water millions of years ago.
•  The Iranian Plate and the Arabian Plate bumped up against each other.
• Pockets formed where oil and gas could collect and be trapped.
•  all of the above