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Performance Assessment

Performance Assessment. Create a tri-fold travel brochure and present it to the class. Your project must include the natural characteristics that define the region known as the Middle East (either past or present), relative and absolute location, climate. Culture. Ecosystems, and technology.

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Performance Assessment

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  1. Performance Assessment • Create a tri-fold travel brochure and present it to the class. Your project must include the natural characteristics that define the region known as the Middle East (either past or present), relative and absolute location, climate. Culture. Ecosystems, and technology.

  2. Physical Features of Mesopotamia Landforms, Bodies of Water, Plant and Animal life on back. Inventions and Innovations of Mesopotamia on back Map of Mesopotamia Title of Travel Agency Slogan Emblem Price Picture of Interest Geography Four Geographic Regions Climate Including: Average Temperatures and Average Rainfall of Mesopotamia on back Final Performance Assessment CSI07

  3. The Middle East Climate: In contrast to the comfortable areas bordering the Mediterranean and Arabian Seas the inland regions are desert and almost uninhabitable. This same climate extends from the Arabian peninsula into northern Iraq, Jordan, Syria, Iran, and further to the East Afghanistan. Rainfall: five to ten inches per year. Usually in the form of a downpour for just a very short period in winter. Temperatures: Average 130 degrees during a summer day but as low as 40 degrees at night. Agriculture: With irrigation wheat, barley, olives, figs, nuts, and grapes can be cultivated in the steppe regions. Sheep, goats, donkeys, and camels can be raised even in the desert regions. Natural Resources: (Scattered throughout the region) North Africa- Iron Ore & Phosphates Israel- Salt Turkey- chromium and molybdenum Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iraq, Iran- Oil CSI07

  4. Black Sea Asia Caspian Sea Taurus Mountains Nineveh * Zagros Mountains Tigris River Mediterranean Sea Assur * Mesopotamia * Babylon * Ur Euphrates River Persian Gulf Jerusalem Syrian Desert Africa CSI07

  5. Black Sea Caspian Sea Turkey Iran Lebanon Syria Tigris River Mediterranean Sea Iraq Israel Euphrates River Persian Gulf Jordan Saudi Arabia Egypt CSI07

  6. Iraq – Ancient Land of Mesopotamia • Three Geographic Regions: • Mountains in Northeast and Eastern sections. This area has good pastures and a few fertile plateaus. • Central Desert Area doted with few oasises. • Irrigated valley between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. • Iran – Once known as Persia • Geography: High plateau much of it desert • Climate: dry continental • Natural Resources: coal, iron, copper, lead, borax, manganese, nickel, cobalt, and oil. • Agriculture: tobacco, cotton, corn, rice all grown on small farms. CSI07

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