Southwest Asia/ Middle East Rice

Southwest Asia’s two longest and most important rivers are the _______and the -____________

• Tigris

• Euphrates

• Tigris and Euphrates

• Jordan

This area has been known since ancient times as ____________, which is Greek for “land between the rivers"

• Persia

• Iraq

• Iran

• Mesopotamia

________ landscapes spread across most of Southwest Asia

• wadis

• beaches

• Desert

• tropical forrest

An________is an area in a desert where underground water allows plants to grow throughout the year

• wadis

• oasis

• alluvial plain

• plateau

Southwest Asia comprises ____ countries that lie in the area where Asia meets Europe and Africa

• 15

• 13

• 17

• 10

One of the world’s most famous passes is the __________.

• Khyber Pass

• Alluvial Pass

• Afghan pass

• Rocky Pass

Egypt’s _____________, connecting the Red Sea and the Mediterranean, was completed in 1869

• Suez Canal

• Panama Canal

• Red Canal

• Persian Gulf Canal

___________________ has become tremendously important in world affairs since the middle of the 1900s due to the importance of oil to the other industrialized countries

• The Persian Gulf

• Red Sea

• The Arabian Sea

• The Dead Sea

Most of Southwest Asia has a _______________ climate, which is a dry climate

• arid

• humid

• semi-arid

• humid continental

Scarcity of ___________ has shaped this region’s human history and settlement patterns

• land

• water

• sand

• trees