WorksheetsGeography of the Middle East
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 8mins
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 (a) 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:
(a)
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 (a) was responsible for many of the current boundaries found in the Middle East.
