Susan M.

Pojer
Horace Greeley HS

The Middle East Today:

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Middle East? OR Near East?

OR Southwest Asia? OR.?

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Arabian
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Gulf of Aden

Indian
Ocean

The Mighty Nile

River:
Longest River in the
World

Egypt: The Gift of the

Nile
Nile
Delta
Annual Nile
Flooding
95% of the
Egyptian people
live on 5% of the
land!

Aswan High Dam, Egypt

Hydroelect
ric
Power
Plant

Suez Canal

Completed by the British

The Tigris &

Euphrates
River System

Mesopotamia:
Land Between the
Two Rivers
Marsh Arabs, So.
Iraq

Dust Storms Along the

Tigris-Euphrates Flood Plains

The
Jordan
River
System:
Israel &
Jordan--A
Fight Over
Water
Rights?

Dead Sea: Lowest Point on

2,300 below sea
Earth
level

Highest
Salt
Content
(33%)

Wadis Instant Springs

Mountains & Plateaus

Caucasus
Mts.

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Mountain Ranges in Mid-East

Elburz Mts., Iran

Lebanese Mts.

Zagros Mts., Iran

Taurus Mts., Turkey

Deserts

Libyan Desert

Sahara Desert

Negev
Sinai
Desert
Desert

Arabian
Desert Rub
al-Khali

Desert Bedouins

Breeding Areas of Desert

Locusts

Swarms of Desert
Locusts!
Israel Hit By Worst
Locust Plague
Since the 1950s!

Locusts Swarm
the Pyramids
Complex at

Rub al-Khali:
The Empty
Quarter

Desert Oases: Water at a

Premium!

Fresh Groundwater Sources

Desalinizati
on
Plants

Fertile Crescent

The Fertile Crescent

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Desert
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River
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Sahara Desert

Arabian
Sea
Gulf of Aden

Indian
Ocean

The Middle East vs. the U.

S.
Latitude Lines

Middle East: Climate

Regions

Middle East: Population

Density

Cairo, Egypt:
Most Populated City in the Middle East

17,000,000
+
People!

The Middle East:

Natural Vegetation

The Natural Resources of

the
Middle East

World Oil Reserves

Persian Gulf Oil Exports

(2003)

Saudi Oil Fields &

Refineries

Kuwait:

An Island Floating on a Sea

of Oil

Kuwai
t
City

Leading U. S. Oil
Suppliers

The U. S. imports 30% of its oil needs from

the Middle East.