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Southwest Asia Review Game

Test your knowledge of Southwest Asia with this interactive review game covering geography, key bodies of water, important landforms, historical events, and ethnic groups.

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Southwest Asia Review Game

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  1. Southwest Asia Review Game

  2. Mediterranean Sea What is the name of this body of water?

  3. Rub al Khali Desert What is the name of this landform?

  4. What is the name of the strait at the southern end of the Persian Gulf? Strait of Hormuz

  5. Dead Sea What is the name of this body of water?

  6. What is the name of this country? Turkey

  7. The Tigris and Euphrates Rivers meet in which county? Iraq

  8. The Suez Canal links what two bodies of water? Mediterranean Sea & Red Sea

  9. Black Sea What is the name of this body of water?

  10. Arabian Sea What is the name of this body of water?

  11. Which bodies of water are connected by the Strait of Hormuz The Arabian Sea and the Persian Gulf

  12. What makes it possible to get to the Mediterranean Sea from the Arabian Sea without having to sail around the continent of Africa? The Suez Canal

  13. What is the name of this country? Afghanistan

  14. In which country are the Gaza Strip and the West Bank located? Israel

  15. Suez Canal What is the name of this body of water?

  16. What country is the Sinai Peninsula a part of? Egypt

  17. What river runs through Syria, Israel, and Jordan? Jordan River

  18. What river forms a boundary between Israel and Jordan? Jordan River

  19. Euphrates River What is the name of this river?

  20. Red Sea What is the name of this body of water?

  21. What does OPEC stand for? Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries

  22. Sinai Peninsula What is the name of this landform?

  23. Israel What is the name of this country?

  24. Tigris River What is the name of this river?

  25. Which Middle Eastern Country is located in both Europe and Asia? Turkey

  26. What is the term for the removal of salt from water? Desalination

  27. Jordan River What is the name of this river?

  28. What meets the Euphrates River in Iraq? Tigris River

  29. Iraq What is the name of this country?

  30. Persian Gulf What is the name of this body of water?

  31. Iran What is the name of this country?

  32. What is the climate of Southwest Asia? Arid

  33. What is the name of the body of water with the highest salt volume in the world? Dead Sea

  34. Strait of Hormuz What is the name of this body of water?

  35. What two countries share a border at the Sinai Peninsula? Egypt and Israel

  36. Rub al Khali Desert What is the name of this landform?

  37. What 3 continents meet in the Middle East? Africa, Asia, Europe

  38. What was the Holocaust? The murder of millions of European Jews during World War II

  39. What is Zionism? The belief that Jews deserved to return to a homeland in Zion where they had lived in Biblical times

  40. What is the most dominant ethnic group in Southwest Asia (Middle East)? Arabs

  41. What is the name of the agency that created the State of Israel as a homeland for the Jews? The United Nations

  42. How did Palestinians feel about the new state of Israel? They rejected it as unfair to them

  43. When the Ottoman Empire ended, Who drew up the Boundaries for the new country’s created ? European Politicians

  44. When were the Countries of Jordan and Iraq created? after World War I

  45. What has happened to many of the Palestinians refugees since 1948 ? Many still live in refugee camps

  46. Who ruled Palestine before Israel gained it’s Independence? United kingdom

  47. When Israel was established, who is forced to relocate? The Palestinian Arabs

  48. U.S. troops are still fighting in which Middle Eastern Country? Afghanistan

  49. What event started Operation Desert Storm? After Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait

  50. A person who had to leave their home as a result of war is known as what? Refugee

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