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TCI: Ch. 24 Oil in Southwest Asia: How “Black Gold” Has Shaped a Region
Read each section. Then answer the related questions. Your answers must be in complete sentences.
24.3 The Geology and Geography of Oil
1. What three countries have the highest oil reserves?
2. How does oil form? Explain the process in at least three steps
3. Why is so much oil buried under Southwest Asia?
4. Are oil reserves distributed equally among the countries of Southwest Asia? Explain.
24.4 Oil Wealth and People’s Well-Being
5. What three countries have the highest HDI ranks?
6. How has oil made the people of Southwest Asia better off?
7. Why isn’t per capita GDP always an accurate reflection of people’s wealth?
8. What are some examples o why some oil countries haven’t been able to end poverty?
24.4 The Price and Flow of Oil
9. What have been the goals of Southwest Asian OPEC members?
10. What two realities have limited OPEC’s power?
11. What were the two types of coalition members in the Persian Gulf War? why were they coalition
members?
ASSESSMENT—Circle the letter of the best answer for each question.
12. Why is oil considered a nonrenewable resource?
a. It is found deep in the ground.
b. It is used to produce electricity.
c. It creates pollution when burned.
d. It takes millions of years to form.
13. Which of these forces slowly turns the remains of plants and animals into oil?
a. solar energy and wind power
c. underground pressure and heat
b. the mixing of water and gases
d. the movement of tectonic plates
14. Which statement best describes how oil is distributed among the countries of Southwest Asia?
a. One country ahs all the proven oil reserves.
c. Every country draws oil from one large deposit.
b. Some countries have far more oil than others.
d. Oil is evenly distributed to all countries in the region.
15. What do the countries in this list have in common? 
a.
b.
c.
d.
They all belong to OPEC.
They all export or import oil.
They all rank low in the HDI.
They all have large oil reserves.
16. Which of the following is a renewable energy resource?
a. coal
b. uranium
c. natural gas
d. wind
17. A Southwest Asian country that spends much of its oil earnings on education and healthcare is most likely to
have which of the following?
a. a high HDI ranking
c. a large rural population
b. a low life expectancy
d. a small per capita GDP
18. Which of these is a major goal of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)?
a. to find new oil deposits
c. to decrease oil pollution
b. to keep oil prices steady
d. to increase oil consumption
19. Which conclusion about world energy production from 1970 to 2003 does the graph below best support?
a.
b.
c.
d.
The cost of generating electricity rose year by year.
The nuclear power industry declined during this period.
The need for energy in developing countries rose sharply.
The use of renewable energy resources grew very slowly.