6th Unit 6 North Africa, SW Asia, and Central Asia

Question 1

What is left behind when irrigation water evaporates?

Accepted Answer

salt

Question 2

What are the dry riverbeds called?

Accepted Answer

wadis

Question 3

What is the capital of Egypt?

Accepted Answer

Cairo

Question 4

How did Libya's infrastructure was developed with money from _____.

Accepted Answer

oil

Question 5

Why have farmers in the Nile Valley had to use fertilizers?

Accepted Answer

Aswan High Dam has stopped the silt from being deposited.

Question 6

What resource have people in this region not been able to manage effectively?

Accepted Answer

water

Question 7

What makes land fertile?

Accepted Answer

silt

Question 8

What is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world?

Accepted Answer

Damascus

Question 9

Which country has a lumber industry?

Accepted Answer

Lebanon

Question 10

What is the holy book of Islam?

Accepted Answer

the Quran

Question 11

Who led the Israelites out of Egypt and received the Ten Commandments?

Accepted Answer

Moses

Question 12

Which book helps show the life during the Arab Empire?

Accepted Answer

The Thousand and One Nights

Question 13

What is the oldest major religion?

Accepted Answer

Judaism

Question 14

Where does Libya get its water?

Accepted Answer

aquifers

Question 15

Oil rich countries use this expensive water management system.

Accepted Answer

desalinization

Question 16

Who attacked the United States in 2001?

Accepted Answer

al-Qaeda

Question 17

The formation of oil occurred when heat and pressure affected

Accepted Answer

sea animals and plants

Question 18

Which country straddles Europe and Asia?

Accepted Answer

Turkey

Question 19

Where are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers located?

Accepted Answer

Iraq

Question 20

What physical feature covers much of North Africa?

Accepted Answer

Sahara

Questions 20