Susan M. Pojer
Horace Greeley HS Chappaqua, NY
The Middle East Today:
Political Map
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Middle East? OR Near East?
OR Southwest Asia? OR….?
Bodies of Water
Black Sea
Dardanelles Strait
Atlantic
Ocean
Tigris
Euphrates
River
Jordan River
River
Suez Canal
Nile
River
Strait of
Hormuz
Gulf
of
Oman
Arabian
Sea
Gulf of Aden
Indian
Ocean
The Mighty Nile River:
“Longest River in the World”
Egypt: The “Gift of the Nile”
Nile Delta
Annual Nile Flooding
95% of the Egyptian
people live on 5% of the
land!
Aswan High Dam, Egypt
Hydroelectric
Power Plant
Suez Canal
Completed by the British in 1869
The Tigris & Euphrates
River System
Mesopotamia:
”Land Between the Two Rivers”
Marsh Arabs, So. Iraq
Dust Storms Along the
Tigris-Euphrates Flood Plains
The
Jordan
River
System:
Israel &
Jordan--A
Fight Over
Water Rights?
Dead Sea: Lowest Point on Earth
2,300’ below sea level
Highest
Salt
Content
(33%)
Wadis – Instant Springs
Mountains & Plateaus
Caucasus
Mts.
Anatolian
Plateau
Atlas Mts.
Iranian
Zagros Plateau
Mts.
Mountain Ranges in Mid-East
Elburz Mts., Iran
Lebanese Mts.
Zagros Mts., Iran
Taurus Mts., Turkey
Deserts
Libyan Desert
Sahara Desert
Negev
Sinai
Desert
Desert
Arabian
Desert Rub
al-Khali
Desert Bedouins
Breeding Areas of Desert Locusts
Swarms of Desert Locusts!
Israel Hit By Worst Locust
Plague Since the 1950s!
Locusts Swarm the
Pyramids Complex at
Giza!
Rub al-Khali:
“The Empty Quarter”
Desert Oases: Water at a
Premium!
Fresh Groundwater Sources
Desalinization
Plants
Fertile Crescent
The Fertile Crescent
Completed Map
Black Sea
Dardanelles StraitAnatolian
Plateau
Atlantic
Ocean
Atlas Mts.
Caucasus
Mts.
Tigris
Euphrates
Iranian
Jordan RiverRiverZagros Plateau
RiverNegev
Mts.
Sinai
Suez Canal
Desert
Strait of
Desert
Arabian
Hormuz
Libyan Desert Nile
Desert
Gulf
River
Rub
of
al-Khali
Oman
Sahara Desert
Arabian
Sea
Gulf of Aden
Indian
Ocean
The Middle East vs. the U. S.
Latitude Lines
Middle East: Climate Regions
Middle East: Population Density
Cairo, Egypt:
Most Populated City in the Middle East
17,000,000+
People!
The Middle East:
Natural Vegetation
The Natural Resources of the
Middle East
World Oil Reserves
Persian Gulf Oil Exports (2003)
Saudi Oil Fields & Refineries
Kuwait:
An Island Floating on a Sea of Oil
Kuwait
City
Leading U. S. Oil Suppliers
The U. S. imports 30% of its oil needs from the Middle East.