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q The Weekly Warrior WS7 WorkbookWeek of: 11/09-11/12

Unit: The Middle East and Major World Religions

Essential Question: Why do people live the way they do?This week's objectives:

1.To identify how trade has impacted cultures in Southwest and Central Asia throughout history.

2.Be able to explain how having a valuable resource affects a region like the Middle East.3.To explain what are renewable and non-renewable resources and provide real world examples of each.

4.To know the difference between H.D.I and G.D.P and compare and contrast how they represent a region's wealth in

importantly differing ways.

5.To identify what OPEC stands for and analyze the relationship between oil exporting countries and countries that import.6.To explain the effects of irrigaion on the availablity of water by examining the Aral Sea as a case study.

TUESDAY(11/09)

After reading the handout How Trade has Impacted Cultures in Southwest and Central Asia and completing the graphic

organizer (back of handout) record your answers to the following questions:

1.Explain how trade has led to the development of Cuneiform written script for early Mesopotamian cultures.__With theadvancement of cities becoming more complex, out of necessity Mesopotamian civilizations

needed a way to keep track of and record the items they were buying and selling. This recordkeeping system led to the development of Cuneiform script, which was the first written language.

2.Explain how trade has led to the accomplishments of the Phoenicians.As a result of trading with other cultures from different regions along the Mediterranean Sea , thePhoenicians developed the alphabet. This system allowed them to be more successful tradingwith people from other cultures who spoke different languages, since the alphabet was easier tolearn to read and write., having only two symbols.

3.Explain how the Silk Road influenced the culture of the people of Central Asia by bringing them into contact with People

of East and Southwest Asia and Europe.The Silk Road influenced the culture of people of Central Asia by allowing them to see new typesof products and foods they previously had never been exposed to.

WEDNESDAY(11/10)

4.Fill out your geoterms. Provide a copy of the definition, a symbol and a unique sentence that

uses the term. The first is done for you. Be sure to underlin the Geo term in the unique sentence.

Geoterm Definition Symbol Unique sentence

Crude Oil Petroleum asit comes outof the groundand beforeit's beenrefined or

processedinto usefulproducts.

While pumping gas into my car, Ithought about how the gas startedout as crude oil that came fromunder the ground, likely from acountry in the Middle East.

Non

renewable

resource

A resourcethat takesso long toform that itcan't be

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replaced.

Term Definition Symbol Unique sentence

Oil

reserves

Oil that hasbeendiscoveredbut remains

unused in theground.

A.W.V A.W.V

Renewable

resource

A Resourcethat can't beused up orthat can bereplacedquickly as itis used up.

A.W.V A.W.V

Distribution The spread ofwealth,resources,goods andpower.

A.W.V A.W.V

24.2 Analyzing Information and applying knowledge.

5(a)Read the Chart The Top Ten Oil Reserves in Southwest Asia,2004. Use the data from the chart torank

each of Southwest Asia's oil countries according to the size of its proven oil reserves. Label them from

1 (largest reserve) to 10 (smallest reserve.) Shade the three countries with the highest oil reserves.

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5(b.) Are oil reserves distributed equally among the countries of Southwest Asia? Explain.____No, they are not. You can tell they are not distributed equally by looking at the chart from ourreading 24.3 titled Top Ten Oil Reserves In Southwest Asia under the lablel proven oil reserves.For example, you can see Saudi Arabia has 261,700 proven oil reserves (in millions of barrels)while Bahrain has a mere 126. Therefore, from the chart you can see how the reserves are

unequally distributed._______

THURSDAY(11/11)

Please answer these questions after we have read 24.4. Oil Wealth and People's Well-being

6(a)How has oil made many people better off in the Middle East? ____Oil has made many peoplebetter off in the Middle East, because oil money (from exporting) has improved the lives of manyfor those countries who have oil reserves and export.

6(b) Use your answer from 6(a) to explain the effects of petroleum production and export on a

country's standard of living.___Since Standard of Living measures the material wealth, good, services, and luxuries of anindividual, group, or country, it makes sense that the effect s of petroleum production is thefollowing: Southwest Asian countries who produce and export oil will have a higher standard ofliving than those that do not.

Comparing/Contrasting a country's HDI and GDP_____________________

7. Please fill out this graphic organizer after you read and we discuss GDP and HDI.

H.D.I. Measure more than just a country's grossincome; it evaluates other aspects of living, such aseducation and life expectancy.

H.D.I. Is a more accurate reflection of a country's

H.D.I.

Human DevelopMent Index.

G.D.P

Gross DomesticProduct

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wealth.

G.D.P. Assumes wealth is equally distributedamong every individual

Both measure wealth

Both rank countries according to data that iscollectedBoth can increase or decrease

Use your answers for the compare/contrast

8.How do G.D.P. And H.D.I. differ in how they measure the wealth of a country?___H.D.I. Takes into account more factors than just per capita income for a country, such lifeexpectancy, infant mortality rate, and literacy rate.9.Why isn't per capita GDP always a reflection of people's wealth? ____It assumes that wealth isbeing distributed equally among all of its citizens, which in reality that is not the case. Therefore, a

country with a smaller population may appear to have a higher per capita GDP than one with alarger population, since the wealth is being averaged by a smaller pool of people. Our handout24.4 gives the example of how Saudi Arabia, a country with a larger population, has to divide theirGDP among many more people than a country as say, Kuwait. Therefore, Kuwait's GDP lookshigher than Saudi Arabia's, but only because it is averaged (or divided) among a smallerpopulation, so there is more left over per capita (meaning, per person.)

FRIDAY (11/12)

After reading 24.5, please answer the following Comprehension check questions.

10(a) Write what OPEC stand for and explain in your own words what it is. ___O.P.E.C. Stands forOrganization of Petroleum Exporting Countries._They are countries that export oil to other

countries, and they try to control steady prices._

10(b)Name the countries that are OPEC members.__Algeria______________ ____Iran________________ ____Libya____________________

___Angola_____________ _____Iraq_______________ _____Nigeria___________________

____Ecuador____________ _____Kuwait_______________ ___SaudiArabia_____________________

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United Arab Emirates Venezuala

10(c)What two realities have limited OPEC's power? ____They do not always act as a unitedgroup, and its members export less than half of the world's crude oil.10(d)How does being a member of OPEC give a country influence over the world, both economicallyand politically? ___Economically, O.P.E.C. Determines how much oil it wants to supply, so they are

somewhat able to control prices. Politically, O.P.E.C. Has influence over importing countries whodepend on their oil exports.

Critical thinking.

11(a) Who are the top three oil consuming countires?

1._United States_____________________

2.__Japan____________________3.__China____________________

11(b)Why would countries who import oil want to keep a good relationship with oil producing

countries? ___Many countries, including the U.S.A, would want to keep a good relationship with oilproducing countries to have access to their oil. Oil producing countries can impact world economythrough their oil prices giving them much influence in world events.

11(c)Draw a picture of how someone from a country who imports oil, such as the United States, wouldfeel toward an oil producing country.

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