1. Susan M. Pojer
Horace Greeley HS Chappaqua,

2. The Middle East Today:
Political Map
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3. Middle East? OR Near East?
OR Southwest Asia? OR….?

4. Bodies of Water
Tigris
River
Nile
River
Euphrates
RiverJordan
River
Persian Gulf
Arabian
Sea
Mediterranean Sea
Indian
Ocean
Red
Sea
Black Sea
Gulf of Aden
Strait of
Hormuz
Suez Canal
Dardanelles Strait
Atlantic
Ocean
Gulf
of
Oman
Caspian
Sea

5. The Mighty Nile
River:
“Longest River in the
World”

6. Egypt: The “Gift of the
Nile”
Annual Nile Flooding
Nile Delta
95% of the Egyptian
people live on 5% of
the land!

7. Aswan High Dam, Egypt
Hydroelectric
PowerPlant

8. Suez Canal
Completed by the British in

9. The Tigris &
Euphrates
River System
Mesopotamia:
”Land Between the Two
Rivers”
Marsh Arabs, So. Iraq

10. Dust Storms Along the
Tigris-Euphrates Flood Plains

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

12. Dead Sea: Lowest Point on
Earth
Highest
Salt
Content
(33%)
2,300’ below sea level

13. Wadis – Instant Springs

14. Mountains & Plateaus
Atlas Mts.

Elburz
M
ts.
Taurus
Mts. Zagros
Mts.
Iranian
Plateau
Anatolian
Plateau
Caucasus
Mts.
HejazMts.

15. Mountain Ranges in Mid-East
Elburz Mts., Iran Zagros Mts., Iran
Lebanese Mts. Taurus Mts., Turkey

16. Deserts
Sahara Desert
Arabian
Desert
Negev
Desert
Sinai
Desert
Libyan Desert
Rub
al-Khali

17. Desert Bedouins

18. Breeding Areas of Desert
Locusts

19. Swarms of Desert Locusts!
Locusts Swarmthe
Pyramids Complex
at Giza!
Israel Hit By Worst
Locust Plague Since the
1950s!

20. Rub al-Khali:
“The Empty
Quarter”

21. Desert Oases: Water at a
Premium!

22. Fresh Groundwater Sources

23. Desalinizatio
n
Plants

24. Fertile Crescent

25. The Fertile Crescent

26. Completed Map
Tigris
River
Nile
River
Euphrates
RiverJordan
River
Persian Gulf
Arabian
Sea
Mediterranean Sea
Indian
Ocean
Red
Sea
Black Sea
Gulf of Aden
Strait of
Hormuz
Suez Canal
Dardanelles Strait
Atlantic
Ocean
Gulf
of
Oman
Caspian
Sea
Arabian
Desert
Negev
Desert
Sinai
Desert
Rub
al-Khali
Atlas Mts.

Elburz
M
ts.
Taurus
Mts. Zagros
Mts.
Iranian
Plateau
Anatolian
Plateau
Caucasus
Mts.
HejazMts.
Sahara Desert
Libyan Desert

27. The Middle East vs. the U. S.
Latitude Lines

28. Middle East: Climate Regions

29. Middle East: Population
Density

30. Cairo, Egypt:
Most Populated City in the Middle East
17,000,000+
People!

31. The Middle East:
Natural Vegetation

32. The Natural Resources of the
Middle East

33. World Oil Reserves

34. Persian Gulf Oil Exports
(2003)

35. Saudi Oil Fields & Refineries

36. Kuwait: An Island Floating on a Sea
of Oil
Kuwait
City

37. Leading U. S. Oil Suppliers
The U. S. imports 30% of its oil needs fromthe Middle
East.