objective & standard identify and describe ways in which humans have used technology to modify...
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Objective & Standard
Identify and describe ways in which humans have used technology to modify the physical environment in order to settle areas in different world regions.
• GHW.9.3
Physical Geography
Southwest Asia
Or
Middle East
Landforms and Resources
Mountains:• Golan Heights- Border Israel & Syria 1967
• Hindu Kush- Afghanistan: Where’s Waldo?
Peninsulas:• Anatolia- Turkey
• Arabian- Saudi Arabia
Bodies of Water:• Tigris & Euphrates Rivers: Fertile Crescent
• Mesopotamia
• Jordan River: Lebanon into Israel• Dead Sea:
• Wadis: dry riverbeds until rain
Landforms and Resources
Resources:• OIL- “Black Gold”
“Texas Tea”• Rub al-Khali desert
• Refineries
• OPEC- Oil Producing & Exporting Countries
• Risks with Oil• Spills
• Wars
Landforms and Resources
Which of the following is not a peninsula found in SW Asia?
1. Anatolian
2. Algerian
3. Arabian
Anatolia
n
Algeria
n
Arabian
33% 33%33%
Which river is not one of the two that borders the fertile crescent?
1. Jordan
2. Euphrates
3. Tigris
Jord
an
Euphrates
Tigris
33% 33%33%
Which river flows into the Dead Sea?
1. Jordan
2. Euphrates
3. Tigris
4. Nile
Jord
an
Euphrates
Tigris
Nile
25% 25%25%25%
A ____ is a riverbed that has water only after a heavy rain?
1. Kum
2. Wadi
3. Barrage
4. Oasis
Kum
Wad
i
Barrage
Oasis
25% 25%25%25%
OPEC stands for …..
1. Oil Producing and Exploiting Countries
2. Oil Producing and Exporting Countries
Oil Pro
ducing and Exp
loi...
Oil Pro
ducing and Exp
ort...
50%50%
Climate & Vegetation
Arid Climate: • What is an Arid Climate?
Deserts:• Rub al Khali
• “Empty Quarter” or “Place Where No One Comes Out”
• Size of Texas/ 186 F on sand/ 10 years w/o rain
• Salt Flats• Iran due to Rain Shadow
Human Environment Interaction
Irrigation Systems • Drip Irrigation
• Agricultural hearth
Dam Building Desalinization Fossil Water:
• aquifers
Objective & Standard
Identify and describe ways in which humans have used technology to modify the physical environment in order to settle areas in different world regions.
• GHW.9.3
• Drip Irrigation Systems
• Desalinization Plants