SW Asia & North Africa

According to this map, what cities have over 5,000,000 people per square mile?

• Algiers, Tunis

• Ankara, Amman,

• Alexandria, Cairo

• Jidda,Mecca

This is a commercial farm in the Middle East Region, success depends on:

• Lots of people

• Irrigation

• Nomadic herding

• living in a desert

Before the construction of the Suez Canal, what was shipping like and how did items get exported?

• Ships travelled north around Europe and Asia to reach the Red Sea

• Ships had to travel all the way around Africa to reach the Red Sea from the Mediterranean

• Ships travelled only from SW Asia to Africa and back

• Ships went to Japan after going through the Atlantic Ocean

The Suez Canal is an example of:

• a cultural belief

• A transportation corridor

• Old ways Meet New Ways

• A way to unite three continents

Plateaus and Mountains in the MIddle East present what effect on travel and trade ?

• These physical features encourage cultural diffusion

• These physical features allow easy access for exporting goods

• These physical features are a way to unite everyone

• These physical features keep the people isolated from each other

What is desalination?

• A process to remove minerals and salt from saltwater to create drinking water

• A process to remove oxygen and chloride from water

• A process in which you separate the sand from salt water

• A process in which salt water is heated to use as irrigation in desert areas before it evaporates.

Opec helped Saudi Arabia and its people by:

• creating a safe environment in which to drill for oil in the Middle East

• It didn't have any effect on the Middle East or Saudi Arabia

• oil exports provided people with money to create schools, buy items they wanted and allowed the country to control its territory.

• It allowed one country power to dictate what was going to allow the world to do with the oil.

The Suez Canal was the first major way to diffuse cultural beliefs. To the Suez Canal continues to act as one of the world's most significant avenues of trade. The significance of this canal is it:

• blocked transportation

• was considered the Asian Conquest

• was know as the Mediterranean Industrial Route

• Allowed for Cultural Diffusion before the computer age.

In Judaism what cultural traditions are celebrated?

• Christmas,Easter

• Yom Kippur, Hanukkah

• Passover, Holi

• Diwali, Zionism

The Dead Sea is below sea level, and why is it important to the MIddle East?

• Because people float in the water

• Many ships travel through the Dead Sea so they don't sink

• Salt is a major export as they mine the salt from the Dead Sea and export it

• People like it because its a tourists attraction and it brings no money into the country