Physiographic Features of Southwest Asia (and Egypt)
Use a map or atlas to help you identify the answers to the following questions.
Remember to use the clues in the questions. Everything you need to find the answer is
in the question if you read it and study the map carefully.
After you answer the questions be sure to draw or label the feature on your blank map of
Southwest Asia (and Egypt) using the appropriate symbols. **Some features (straits,
seas, gulfs) only need to be numbered (not drawn) because they are already drawn for
you.**
Mountains
(Peak:
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Rivers
(Canal:
Plateaus
PPP
P Peninsulas
PPP
)
1. What two straits, or very narrow strips of water, join the Black Sea to the Aegean Sea
and also separate the Asian part of Turkey from Europe?
2. Which peninsula, or land surrounded by water on three sides, is between the Persian
Gulf and Red Sea?
3. What mountain range stretches across southwestern Iran north of the Persian Gulf?
4. What strait, or narrow strip of water, joins the Persian Gulf to the Gulf of Oman?
5. What two rivers begin in the mountains of eastern Turkey and flow southeast through
Iraq and empty into the Persian Gulf?
6. What small sea on the border between Israel and Jordan lies 1,312 feet below sea
level?
7. What sea, connected to the Gulf of Aden by a narrow strait, separates the Arabian
Peninsula from Egypt and Sudan?
8. What gulf lies southwest of Iran?
9. Which mountain rising nearly 17,000 feet above sea level lies close to the border of
Turkey and Iran?
10. What plateau, or elevated but mostly flat land, covers most of Iran?
11. Which mountain range, one of the highest in the world, begins in northeastern
Afghanistan near the border with Tajikistan and Pakistan?
12. What mountain range runs along the southern end of the Caspian Sea in northern
Iran?
13. What canal, or man-made waterway, connects the eastern Mediterranean Sea to the
Red Sea?
14. Which river that flows into the Mediterranean Sea runs through eastern Egypt and
ends in a delta, or fan shaped area of sediment?