Large Shia Muslim populations are mainly found in

• Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, and Iraq.

• Qatar, Yemen, and Kuwait.

• Kuwait, Bahrain, and Oman

• Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, and Yemen

Over millions of years, heat and pressure from inside the Earth changed the decaying bodies of living things into

• oxygen and carbon dioxide.

• hydrogen and methane.

• oil and natural gas.

• nitrogen and kerosene.

How has oil helped some countries in Arabia and Iraq become wealthy?

• Oil is not very expensive, so they can sell a lot and make enough money.

• Oil is a valuable resource and there is a great deal of it in the region that can be sold to countries.

• They don't have much oil in the region.

• They have no export economy, so the oil they have cannot be sold.

Pressure from the Arabian Plate pressing against the Eurasian Plate created

• the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.

• mountains in Iraq and Yemen.

• a broad valley along the shores of the Red Sea.

• fold traps in the African Plate

Farming is possible in northeastern Iraq because

• desalination plants are located there.

• the Euphrates River flows through the region.

• the region receives some rainfall.

• moist air reaches the region from the Red Sea.

Much of Arabia is heavily ____, meaning that most of the population is concentrated in cities.

• majority

• urbanized

• desalinated

• fossil fuels

In most countries in the region, Arab Muslims make up more than half the population, meaning those people form a ______ group.

• majority

• desalination

• aquifer

• urban

Because they are created from the remains of living things, oil and gas are known as ___.

• desalination plants.

• urban sprawls.

• fossil fuels.

• majorities.

In very dry desert areas, people use a process called ___ to remove salt from seawater.

• urbanization

• desalination

• fosilization

• amalgamation

Being able to sell their only natural resource at a high price to other nations has given the region of Arabia and Iraq a(n) ____.

• advantage

• disadvantage

• neither

• both