MIDDLE EAST GEOGRAPHY FLIPBOOK
You will create a 10-page booklet of geographic features that dominate
Southwest Asia (Middle East). Below is a check list of the five items that
should appear on each page in your flipbook along with an explanation
of what you are to do for each geographic term.
TERM
Geographic
term
Definition of
term
Drawing that
represents the
definition
CHECKLIST
DIRECTIONS
These are the terms that should be used in your flipbook. Each term should be written on a
separate page in the flipbook.
strait, canal, river, desert, peninsula, sea, ocean, gulf
Define each geographic term on a separate page in your flipbook. Definitions should be
on the same page as the term.
Using resources such as encyclopedias, dictionaries, atlases and the internet, draw a
picture that represents the definition. The picture should not look like a map drawing.
Label the representation of the term in your drawing. For example, for the term river, you
would draw a picture of how a river would look not a map of a river. Some features like a
gulf or a strait may look like a map when you draw them, however there should be no real
world locations identified in your drawing.
river
This
Map section
that identifies
where this
geographic
feature is
located in
Southwest Asia
Use of the word
in a sentence.
not this
YOU MAY NOT USE
COMPUTER PICTURES.
You must draw a
picture that represents
each terms.
.
Draw a map showing were the geographic term exists in Southwest Asia. You must identify
and label the geographic feature and at least two other features that surround the term.
See example below for the Persian Gulf.
YOU MAY NOT USE COMPUTER MAPS
THAT ARE ALREADY LABELED.
If you cannot find outline blank maps,
you must draw and label your own
maps.
On each page in your booklet, you must use the term found on that page in a sentence.
This sentence should demonstrate your understand on how the geographic term impacts
the countries or people of Southwest Asia.
Acceptable: The Persian Gulf has some of the largest oil reserves in the world located in its
waters and is often the cause of dispute between the nations that share the waters.
Unacceptable: Oil is found in the Persian Gulf.
On the last page of your flipbook, take the outline map of Southwest Asia that you have been provided with
and label each of the following features on the map: Suez Canal, Tigris River, Euphrates River, Jordan River,
Red Sea, Arabian Sea, Mediterranean Sea, Indian Ocean, Strait of Hormuz, Persian Gulf, Rub' al Khali Desert.
Next, shade the following countries only:
Israel, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iran, Iraq and Turkey. You will need to draw the rivers on the map. You will also
need to draw the Suez Canal on the map.