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NASWA Quiz 2
North Africa Southwest Asia
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Fertile Crescent is | a crescent-shaped area with fertile, productive land |
| Nile, Euphrates, Tigris rivers are | freshwater sources with reliable food sources such as (crops and fish), used for trade and transportation corridor |
| Suez Canal is | a man-made, opened in 1869, 101 miles long, connects Mediterranean Sea to Red Sea |
| Aswan High Dam is | used to generates hydro-electricity and control flooding |
| Mesopotamia is considered the | 1st civilization that means "land between the rivers" Tigris and Euphrates Rivers; part of the Fertile Crescent) |