Unit 6: North Africa and South West Asia

What connects the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea

enhancing shipping routes in the region?

• Persian Gulf

• Bosphorus Strait

• Chunnel

• Suez Canal

Organize these Effects of the ASWAN HIGH DAM into the right categories

Groups:

(a) Positive Effects

,

(b) Negative Effects

• Generates hydro electricity

• Controls Flooding

• loss of archeological areas

• Loss of silt and land

• Services the Population

• Use of artifical Fertilizer

Which is a cultural region that can be found in Turkey, Iraq, Iran

and Syria with its ethnic group having no country of its own?

• Armenians

• Kurds

• Uzbek

• Kazah

Which is an open-air marketplace in the Middle East?

• Wadi

• Minaret

• Suq

• Oasis

Which Mediterranean island has a history of an ethnic conflict between

the Greeks and the Turks?

• Corsica

• Sardinia

• Crete

• Cyprus

Jerusalem is the holy site for which THREE religions?

• HInduism

• Judaism

• Islam

• Christianity

Which city commands the land between the

Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?

• Baghdad

• Cairo

• Tehran

• Mecca

Which sacred Jewish site in Jerusalem is being shown in the

picture?

• Dome of the Rock

• Western Wall

• Hagia Sophia

• Church of the Holy Sepuchler

Most Arabs speak...

• Spanish

• English

• Arabic

• Farsi

What is the main reason for ongoing conflict in the disputed area

shown in North Africa?

• became a Jewish state

• Soviet Union diverted water

• blocking the Suez Canal

• Land rights