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MiddleEast Oil H20
MiddleEast SS7G5,6,7
Question | Answer |
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The Southwestern countries with the greatest oil reserves of natural gas and oil are | Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Iran, and Kuwait |
How much of the world's oil supply is found in Southwest Asia? | 50%, or half of the world's oil supply |
List 3 main water problems in the Middle East | water shortages, pollution, unequal water distribution |
Which river is the source of conflict between Israel, Syria, and Jordan? | Jordan River |
What kind of changes have taken place since the discovery of oil in the Middle East? | the Middle East is viewed as vitally important to the world's economy Money has transformed Saudi Arabia from a very poor society to a very rich society It has modernized the Middle East more than 95% of the population lives in cities, not nomadic |
Which river do Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Kuwait share? | Euphrates River |
What was formed in the 1960s when some Southwestern oil producing countries joined other oil rich countries to have more control over the oil market? | OPEC |
Where in a country is the population the greatest? (physical feature) | along the coast |
What does each letter of OPEC stand for? | O.P.E.C. Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries |
How has building dams created problems for countries that share rivers in Southwest Asia? | Dams limit water to the countries further downstream |
What are some ways that the water sources in the Middle East have been polluted? | chemical fertilizers that run off from the fields, toxic waste that is dumped in the rivers, damage from wars that cause poor filtering and pipeline systems, open sewers |
Removing salt from sea water is called | desalination |
methods used to form a system that sends the water from a river to another place to be used for farming | irrigation |
layers of underground rock where water runoff from rains and streams is trapped. | aquifer |
Why don't more countries who lack fresh water desalinate more? | it is very expensive |
What 2 things does OPEC control? | price of all and production of oil. |
Major rivers have become political issues because | the problems that unequal water distribution can cause. Everyone needs water and there is not enough. |
Bedouins, or nomads, are Southwest Asians who have traditionally lived in | major deserts |
Where would you likely find the most dense population of a country? | near major rivers or the coasts |
Why has Southwest Asia played a major role in trade? | it is located between 3 major continents: Asia, Europe, and Africa |
If a community doesn't have enough resources to use their farm as a business to supply food to a greater population, then they are only able to farm for the local environment. This is called | subsistence farming |
What has allowed there to be a better trade route between the Mediterranean Sea and the Arabian Sea. instead of the previous route of having to travel around Africa? | Suez Canal |