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WorksheetsArabia & Iraq Quiz
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
Large Shia Muslim populations are mainly found in
Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, and Iraq.
Qatar, Yemen, and Kuwait.
Kuwait, Bahrain, and Oman
Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, and Yemen
Over millions of years, heat and pressure from inside the Earth changed the decaying bodies of living things into
oxygen and carbon dioxide.
hydrogen and methane.
oil and natural gas.
nitrogen and kerosene.
How has oil helped some countries in Arabia and Iraq become wealthy?
Oil is not very expensive, so they can sell a lot and make enough money.
Oil is a valuable resource and there is a great deal of it in the region that can be sold to countries.
They don't have much oil in the region.
They have no export economy, so the oil they have cannot be sold.
Pressure from the Arabian Plate pressing against the Eurasian Plate created
the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.
mountains in Iraq and Yemen.
a broad valley along the shores of the Red Sea.
fold traps in the African Plate
Farming is possible in northeastern Iraq because
desalination plants are located there.
the Euphrates River flows through the region.
the region receives some rainfall.
moist air reaches the region from the Red Sea.
Much of Arabia is heavily ____, meaning that most of the population is concentrated in cities.
majority
urbanized
desalinated
fossil fuels
In most countries in the region, Arab Muslims make up more than half the population, meaning those people form a ______ group.
majority
desalination
aquifer
urban
Because they are created from the remains of living things, oil and gas are known as ___.
desalination plants.
urban sprawls.
fossil fuels.
majorities.
In very dry desert areas, people use a process called ___ to remove salt from seawater.
urbanization
desalination
fosilization
amalgamation
Being able to sell their only natural resource at a high price to other nations has given the region of Arabia and Iraq a(n) ____.
advantage
disadvantage
neither
both
