Objective & Standard

Identify and describe ways in which
humans have used technology to modify
the physical environment in order to
settle areas in different world regions.
• GHW.9.3
Physical Geography
Southwest Asia
Or
Middle East
Landforms and Resources

Mountains:

Peninsulas:
• Golan Heights- Border Israel & Syria 1967
• Hindu Kush- Afghanistan: Where’s Waldo?
• Anatolia- Turkey
• Arabian- Saudi Arabia
Landforms and Resources

Bodies of Water:
• Tigris & Euphrates Rivers: Fertile Crescent
• Mesopotamia
• Jordan River: Lebanon into Israel
• Dead Sea:
• Wadis: dry riverbeds until rain
Landforms and Resources

Resources:
• OIL- “Black Gold”
“Texas Tea”
• Rub al-Khali desert
• Refineries
• OPEC- Oil Producing
& Exporting Countries
• Risks with Oil
• Spills
• Wars
Which of the following is not a
peninsula found in SW Asia?
ia
n
33%
Ar
ab
ge
r ia
n
33%
Al
n
3.
33%
ol
ia
2.
Anatolian
Algerian
Arabian
An
at
1.
Which river is not one of the two that
borders the fertile crescent?
gr
is
33%
Ti
ra
t
es
33%
Eu
ph
3.
33%
da
n
2.
Jordan
Euphrates
Tigris
Jo
r
1.
25%
Ni
le
25%
Ti
es
ra
t
4.
25%
Eu
ph
3.
25%
da
n
2.
Jordan
Euphrates
Tigris
Nile
Jo
r
1.
gr
is
Which river flows into the Dead
Sea?
A ____ is a riverbed that has
water only after a heavy rain?
sis
25%
Oa
rra
ge
25%
Ba
4.
25%
ad
i
3.
25%
W
2.
Kum
Wadi
Barrage
Oasis
Ku
m
1.
OPEC stands for …..
50%
an
d
ro
du
c in
g
lP
Oi
ro
du
c in
g
an
d
Ex
po
Ex
pl
oi
rt.
..
...
50%
lP
2.
Oil Producing and
Exploiting
Countries
Oil Producing and
Exporting
Countries
Oi
1.
Climate & Vegetation

Arid Climate:

Deserts:
• What is an Arid Climate?
• Rub al Khali
• “Empty Quarter” or “Place Where No One Comes
Out”
• Size of Texas/ 186 F on sand/ 10 years w/o rain
• Salt Flats
• Iran due to Rain Shadow
Human Environment Interaction

Irrigation Systems
• Drip Irrigation
• Agricultural hearth



Dam Building
Desalinization
Fossil Water:
• aquifers
Objective & Standard

Identify and describe ways in which
humans have used technology to modify
the physical environment in order to
settle areas in different world regions.
• GHW.9.3
• Drip Irrigation Systems
• Desalinization Plants