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9th Grade World Geo: Middle East
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1
Name the leader of Islam who died in the 600s A.D.
Muhammad
Jesus
Sunni
Firdawsi
2
A subregion of the Middle East that was home to early civilizations is the ____.
Fertile Crescent
Rub' al-Khali
Levant
Plateau of Anatolia
3
What is the holy book of Islam?
Bible
None of the above
Koran
Tanakh
4
You would expect the climate for much of Turkey to be ____.
steppe
desert
Mediterranean
marine coastal
5
Which river is the longest river in the Middle East?
Jordan
Euphrates
Tigris
Dead Sea
6
What happened in 1938 to change Middle Eastern economies?
There was a huge earthquake.
A drought killed most of their crops.
Oil was discovered.
There was a tsunami.
7
The ____ are a large ethnic group with no country of their own.
Kurds
Hebrews
Shiites
Arabs
8
____ is the only island nation of the Middle East.
Syria
Qatar
Saudi Arabia
Cyprus
9
More than half of the people in the Middle East are ____.
Arabs
Bedouins
Kurds
Jews
10
Which of the following is the ancient name of Iran?
Rub' al-Khali
Persia
Euphrates
Sunnism
11
Which of the following is an important lake in Israel?
Lady Bird Lake
Sea of Galilee
The Great Lakes
Dead Sea
12
Which of the following is
NOT
an important religion that began in the Middle East?
Buddhism
Christianity
Judaism
Islam
13
A resource that is precious because it is scarce is ____.
salt water
fresh water
gold
oil
14
Which of the following is the world's largest sea of sand?
Persia
OPEC
Rub' al-Khali
Euphrates
15
The Tigris and Euphrates rivers are boundaries for ____.
Jordan
Israel
United Arab Emirates
the Fertile Crescent
16
What oil-rich country has Riyadh as its capital?
Iraq
Saudi Arabia
Iran
The Middle East
17
What is the religion of the Hebrews?
Koran
Christianity
Islam
Judaism
18
Colliding tectonic plates formed the ____ of the Middle East.
mountains
rivers
deserts
plateaus
19
Which oil-rich country has Baghdad as its capital?
Saudi Arabia
Iraq
Iran
Turkey
20
____ has one fourth of the world's known deposits of oil.
The Middle East
Yemen
Saudi Arabia
Iraq