Project Prompt
Dubai, Oil
In this project, you will use the 5 themes of geography to analyze Dubai. We can treat Dubai as a sort of
microcosm of South Western Asian geography because of the influence of oil.
Your project should include:
10 slides – including the title slide, works cited slide
1 visual per slide (2 slides can be only visuals, if needed)
Here are some questions to help guide your slides:
-Physical Geography of Dubai—what does it look like? Is there water nearby? Why might have people
settled there?
-History of Dubai
-Human/Political geography of Dubai—what is it next to? What does its population look like? What
religion(s) exist there? Life expectancy? Government?
-Economic Geography—focus on oil, corruption, economic disparity, what are the rich people like
-Cultural Geography—how the rich and the poor interact with each other, how religion dictates their
lives, arts, traditions, does dubai share cultural beliefs with other cities in the region?
Resources:
World Geography textbook
Me
Google (make sure the sources are reliable)
Online libraries
Travel brochures (what do hotels say about the region)
Etc., Etc.
Due Date: 4/15/19