Unit 7: Southwest Asia

What is the most distinctive landform in Southwest Asia?

• Dead Sea

• Arabian Peninsula

• Caspian Sea

• Middle Eastern Peninsula

What is the region’s most abundant resource?

• Oil

• Diamonds

• Water

• Timber

What was the region between two regions that hosted early civilizations between the two major rivers called?

• fertile crescent

• fertile depressant

• crescent moon

• sailor moon

What is much of the Arabian Peninsula covered with?

• Deserts

• Rivers

• Plateaus

• Plains

In the past, cities in the Middle East served as what?

• Caravans

• trade centers

• religious sites

• oasis

In some areas of the region, ______________ climate exists making the lands green for at least part of the year.

• Humid sub-tropical

• marine west coast

• semiarid

• Mediterranean

Which one of these is NOT a pillar of Islam?

• Fasting

• Famine

• Pilgrimage

• Prayer

What was the movement that was about establishing a Jewish homeland called?

• Judaism

• Dome of the Rock

• Zionism

• Pillarism

Islam was based off the teachings of _______________________.

• Allah

• Mecca

• Medina

• Muhammad

What is the saltiest body of water in the Middle East?

• Salt Sea

• Jordan River

• Medina Sea

• Dead Sea