Geography of the Middle East

Every year, millions of Muslims make a pilgrimage to

• Mecca

• Medina

• Tabuk

• Al Hudaydah

The pilgrimage that Muslims make each year is called:

• a hajj.

• a pilgrimage.

• a journey.

• a holy obligation.

The following countries make up our study of the Middle East so far:

• Turkey

• Syria

• Saudi Arabia

• Greece

The vast plateaus, rift valleys, and mountains of the East is caused by ________ activity in the region.

The tectonic plates that are responsible for the geologic activity in the Middle East are (click all that apply):

• African Plate

• Arabian Plate

• Eurasian Plate

• Turkish Plate

The climate of the Middle East is generally:

• Hot and dry with rainfall occurring on the coastal regions.

• Warm and moist overall with small areas of desert.

• Hot and humid with equatorial deserts.

• Cool and dry with regions of heavy rainfall.

The two rivers that flow from Turkey and provide water for irrigation of Syrian agriculture are:

• Tigris

• Euphrates

• Nile

• Amazon

The waterway between Saudi Arabia and Iraq where a majority of the world's oil travels through is the:

Many of the borders established in the Middle East were created after ________ ___ ___ and originally belonged to the _______ ________

• World War One

• Ottoman Empire

• World War Two

• Britain

The League of ___________ was responsible for many of the current boundaries found in the Middle East.