the UAE

1. What is the name of the region in which the United Arab Emirates is located?

• a) The Southern Coast

• b) The Middle East

• c) The North West

• d) The Arabian Desert

2.  How many countries is the Arabian Peninsula made up of?

• 4

• 3

• 6

• 5

3. What is the equator?

4. Can you finish this sentence below by finding the missing words from the text? 

Countries that are found on or ____________ to the equator usually have hot ________________  .

• a) equator, climates

• b) sea, weather

• c) near, climates

• d) desert, weather

 5. What is the reason for countries on or near to the equator having hot climates?  

6. Can you match the word to its correct meaning?

Arabian Peninsula

• a) A region made up of 6 countries, Saudi Arabia, Oman, UAE, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar and Yemen.

• b) An imaginary line that divides the world into the Northern Hemisphere and the Southern Hemisphere.

• c) The ruler that formed the united Arab Emirates from the sever emirates in 1972.

7.  Which emirate is home to the tallest building in the world?

• Abu Dhabi

• Dubai

• Ajman

• Ras Al Khaimah

8.  Have you visited any of the seven emirates within the UAE? Can you write about a time you visited one? If you haven’t can you find out one fact about an emirate within the UAE and write it below?