Physical Geography of the Northeast

Mount Ararat

• Highest peak in the Pontic Mountain Range

• Highest Peak in the Taurus Mountain Range

• Highest peak in the Anatolian Plateau

• Highest peak in the Elburz Mountains

Southern mountain range in the country of Turkey

• The Pontic Mountains

• The Taurus Mountains

• The Elburz Mountains

• Zagros Mountains

Lies between the Pontic mountains and the Taurus Mountains

• Dead Sea

• Turkish Straits

• Zagros Mountains

• Anatolian Plateau

Cover the northern portion of Iran with a series of peaks that often exceed 9,000 feet 

• Pontic Mountains

• Zagros Mountains

• Taurus Mountains

• Elburz Mountains

Marks the border between Asia and Europe

• Zagros Mountains

• Persian Gulf

• Dead Sea

• Turkish Straits

"The land between two rivers"

• Mesopotamia

• Turkish Straits

• Zagros Mountains

• Anatolian Plateau

Home to some of the world’s earliest advanced civilizations

• Mesopotamia

• The Anatolian Plateau

• Zagros Mountains

• Turkish Straits

Shatt al Arab

• The highest peak in the Pontic Mountains

• Grass that grows on the Anatolian Plateau

• Where the Tigris and Euphrates rivers meet

• An island in the Persian Gulf