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Are You Smarter Than a 7th Grader? Middle East Edition

Test your knowledge of the Middle East with a trivia game based on 7th-grade curriculum. Answer questions about economy, political features, physical features, major religions, climate, history, government, environmental issues, and more.

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Are You Smarter Than a 7th Grader? Middle East Edition

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  1. Are you SMARTER GRADER 5th than a

  2. INSTRUCTIONS1) Choose a category2) Correctly answer questions/statements3) If your wrong you loose the amount of money you were playing for4) Whoever has the most money wins.

  3. Are You Smarter Than a 7th Grader? Middle East $10,000 $1000 $900 Economy Political Features $800 $700 Physical Features Major Religions $600 Climate History $500 $400 Government Types of Governments $300 $200 Environmental Issues Population distribution $100

  4. Economy $100 For the past 60 years, what has been the main export for Middle East nations?

  5. Answer Oil

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  7. Economy $200 • What product do the Middle East imports mostly?

  8. Answer • Food and other essential products

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  10. Economy $300 • What are the three basic economic questions for which every country must consider to run their economy

  11. Answer • What will be produce?, How it will be produced?, and For whom it will be produced?

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  13. Economy $400 • What does OPEC stand for and its function?

  14. Answer • Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. The organization is to help members develop policies on oil production, prices and trade that will benefit its members

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  16. Economy $500 • Explain how most countries have a mixed economy located on a continuum between pure market and pure command.

  17. Answer • A mixed economy has elements of command and market economic systems. There is government control and individual freedoms to decide the three basic economic questions.

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  19. Economy $600 • Compare and contrast the economic systems in Israel, Saudi Arabia and Turkey.

  20. Answer • Israel (government and private companies own and control the economy) and Saudi Arabia (royal family and the government both control the economy) both have mixed economies, Turkey (government controls the economy) has mostly a command economy.

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  22. Economy $700 • Explain how specialization encourages trade between countries.

  23. Answer • Countries specialize in trading because of unequal distribution of global resources. Exporting and importing certain goods and services they need helps to successfully run their economies

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  25. Economy $800 • Compare and contrast different types of trade barriers, such as tariffs, quotas, and embargos.

  26. Answer • Tariffs are taxes on imports, quotas place limits on trade, and embargos are ban on trade.

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  28. Economy $900 • Explain why international trade requires a system for exchanging currencies between nations.

  29. Answer • The prices that one country has for currency have different values compared to others. Without an exchange rate, global trade would be practically impossible.

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  31. Physical Features $100 What are major rivers that support most of the Middle East region?

  32. Answer • Tigris, Euphrates and Jordan Rivers

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  34. Physical Features $200 • What strait connects the Persian Gulf to the Gulf of Oman and Arabian Sea to support trade in the Middle East?

  35. Answer • Strait of Hormuz

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  37. Physical Features $200 • What two major bodies of water does the Suez Canal connect?

  38. Answer • Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea

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  40. Physical Features $200 • The process of removing salt from salt water in order to make it suitable for farming and drinking is known as

  41. Answer • Desalination

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  43. Physical Features $300 • Arabs and Israelis conflict about this land area that lies on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Egypt to the west and Israel on the south, east and north.

  44. Answer • Gaza Strip

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  46. Climate $100 Describe how the mountain, desert, and water features affect population in terms of where people live, type of work they do and how they travel?

  47. Answer • Middle East mountains and deserts are less populated than other areas. People in theses regions work as farmers or herders and travel by walking or animal. In the water features areas, people work as fisherman, farmers, merchants or traders. They travel using water vehicles.

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  49. Government $100 What are the types of governments in Israel, Saudi Arabia and Iran?

  50. Answer • Israel has a republic, Saudi Arabia an absolute monarchy and Iran a theocracy

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