Southwest Asia Test

Golan Heights is also known as what?

• Anatolian Peninsula
• Zagro Mountains
• Elburz Mountains
• Al Jawlan

The most distinctive landform in Southwest Asia is what?

• The Red Sea
• Africa
• Arabian Peninsula
• Persian Gulf

What peninsula is located between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean Sea?

• Arabian
• Anatolian
• Baltic
• Egyptian

What is a riverbed that remains dry except during the rainy season?

• Isthmus
• Delta
• Straight
• Wadi

What Southwest Asian country is landlocked and mountainous, so contact with the outside world is difficult?

• Jordan
• Afghanistan
• Lebanon
• Israel

What country is isolated from the rest of Southwest Asia by the Zagros Mountains in the west?

• Iran
• Iraq
• Syria
• Kuwait

What are the two most important rivers in Southwest Asia?

• Red & Black
• Mediterranean & Red
• Nile & Dead
• Tigris & Euphrates

Which one of the following countries does the Tigris & Euphrates Rivers not flow through?

• Jordan
• Turkey
• Iraq
• Syria

What sea is actually and landlocked salt lake that the Jordan River flows into?

• Dead Sea
• Red Sea
• Caspian Sea
• Nigerian Sea

Today about 1/2 of the world's oil reserves are found in Southwest Asia and long the coast of what?

• Dead Sea
• Persian Gulf
• Caspian Sea
• Indian Ocean