Geography of SW Asia: Color-by-Number

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What body of water is the most northwestern part of the Indian Ocean and forms part of a key shipping route between Europe and India?

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Arabian Sea

Front

What is the very narrow waterway that connects the Persian Gulf to the Arabian Sea called?

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Strait of Hormuz

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What body of water is an inlet of the Indian Ocean that lies between Africa and Southwest Asia?

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Red Sea

Front

The United Nations created the area around the city of Gaza and the territory of the West Bank for whom?

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Arabs

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Which river begins in Turkey, flows south through Iraq, and joins with Euphrates to form one waterway called the Shatt al-Arab?

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Tigris River

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What body of water is located between the country of Iran and the Arabian Peninsula? (The region's oil-producing countries use this as a shipping route.)

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Persian Gulf

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What is the 120-mile man-made waterway that is used to transport goods and connects the Red Sea with the Mediterranean Sea?

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Suez Canal

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Which country blocks Iraq from having direct access to the oil-rich Persian Gulf? Options: Syria, Jordan, Kuwait

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Kuwait

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Which river begins at the southern end of the Sea of Galilee & flows south until it reaches the Dead Sea? (It's a boundary between Israel, the West Bank, & Jordan)

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Jordan River

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If you traveled from Kuwait to Turkey, through which country would you most likely pass? Options: Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan

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Iraq