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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What countries water is polluted because they have no sanitization system? | Afganistan |
| Where does the Euphrates River and the Tigris River start? | Turkey |
| What is an aquifer? | an underground layer of rock and sand that contains water |
| What is ground water? | water below the surface that supplies wells and springs |
| What three countries does the Euphrates River flow through? | Turkey, Syria, and Iraq |
| What country/countries built a dam in the Euphrates River and why? | Turkey- because they needed the water for drinking, for hydroelectric power, and irrigation |
| Where is the Jordan River located? | Israel |
| What does the acronym J.E.T. stand for? | J-Jordan E-Euphrates T-Tigris |
| Which sea/seas and country/countries are the oil spills affecting | The Black Sea, and it affects mainly Turkey |
| Israel has been in wars over the ______ River because it is their main water source | Jordan |
| What country supplies 25% of the world's oil | Saudi Arabia |
| true or false? In Saudi Arabia it was mostly nomadic until 1820 when the gold rush took place. | False, the country was mostly nomadic until the 1960's when they discovered all of the oil under Saudi Arabia |
| Which two oil rich countries are the most populated because of the oil? | Iran and Iraq |
| true or false? Saudi Arabia was a wealthy country before the oil discovery | False, they were actually a poor country before all of the oil deposits |
| The population in Saudi Arabia is about ____ person per square mile | one |
| true or false? Most of the Middle East's population is no longer following the traditional ways of life because of the oil? | True |
| How has Turkey benifited from the oil reserves found in other countries? | They act as a toll booth and tax countries getting the oil to Europe |
| There is an ________ ________ of oil in the Middle East | unequal,distrubution |
| Geologists have recently discovered a small oil reserve in ________. | Israel |
| true or false? The Middle East was not of almost any importance to the world until the 1930s when the oil was discovored | True, the only real importance in the Middle East was near Israel because of The Bible |
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