Box-It-Up 2: North Africa, Middle East and Central Asia
Climate and Vegetation
Date
Per.
Name:
Water: A Precious Resource pgs: 427-431
What is the scarcest natural resource in the
region?
What is the annual precipitation rate around the
Caspian Sea?
Desert Climate p.428-429
Although most of the region is desert, what other
climate regions are there? (p.428)
Desert Climate (continued) Ten percent of the Sahara is
sand and the rest is
What is the Rub’al Khali covered with?
What are oases? Why are they important to the region?
Steppe Climate
What is the natural vegetation of the steppes?
What is pastoralism?
How extensive is the Sahara Desert? Where is it
found?
Describe the Mediterranean climate?
Where can you find this type of climate in the region?
What is the definition of a desert?
How have droughts affected the Sahara Desert?
Why do tourists from higher latitudes go to the Middle East?
How are the winters and the summers on the
northern parts of the Sahara and the Arabian
Desert?
How are the winters and the summers on the
southern parts of the Sahara and the Arabian
Desert?
Define and add a picture for each of the following:
Ergs
Rainfall
What areas receive plenty of precipitation?
What place in particular receives the most rain?
Name one food from the region that you have eaten? Add an
image of this food?
Regs
With climate change, what might happen to the steppe areas
in the region?
Hamada?