Question and Answer Samples and Techniques

What is the holy journey to Mecca?

What is the ancient civilization by the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?

Term for Christian holy people

A traditional market place

Who is the greatest prophet in Islam?

Muslim leaders

What is the name for the Muslim holy month?

Early Egyptian writing

Egyptian peasant farmer

With whom did God make a covenant?

Factories that turn petroleum into other products

Name of the Jewish nation

Define genocide

Man-made waterway that carries water between the Mediterranean and Red Seas

Early Sumerian writing

Define enclave

Name three ways to deal with water shortages

This country has ¼ of the world’s oil reserves

Means “the land farthest west”

What are phosphates?

Term for illegal hunting or fishing

What is dry farming?

What is sedimentary rock?

What is silt?

What country controls the Aswan Dam?

Dry riverbeds

Define nomads

Define aquifers

What’s a kibbutz?

Name the two areas Palestine controls

Bahrain’s main industry

What’s a clan?

What thing(s) did Moses do?

Name for the dry, grassy plains

Iranians are this ethnic group

Hydroelectric dam discussed in area

What do Judaism, Christianity and Islam have in common?

What is the holy book of Islam?

Define embargo

What physical feature covers most of North Africa?

Main language in the Middle East

Group that attacked the US in 2001

Where does Libya get water

What is the process of removing salt from water?

List four things about the first Persian Gulf War

Countries with higher standards of living have what resource?

Name two ways ancient Mesopotamia and ancient Egypt were alike?

Give the name of the group in Afghanistan that is against the gov’t of Afghanistan

What three religions were born here (in order of birth)

What is infrastructure?

How was Israel formed?

Name three things North Africa countries have in common

What ethnic group is upset with the US for supporting Israel?

describe cuneiform

Who is Muhammad?

Define theocracy

Define Quran

Describe Ramadan

What is a pharaoh?

Define prophets

Why is the hajj to Mecca?

What are stories about heroes?

What can’t women in Saudi Arabia do without male chaperones?

What are the two braches of Islam and which is larger?

Define moshav

What’s a civil war?

Define dictatorship

What are the Five Pillars of Islam?

Describe multiple cropping

Turkey connects what two larger areas?

What’s a bedouin?

Name the mountains in North Africa

What is a problem with the Aswan Dam?

What is fertile soil left by a river?

(not silt)

What is the largest sea in the Middle East?

Name two problems contributing to the Middle East’s water problem

What problem occurs with irrigation?

What are trade sanctions?

Like were used in Libya

What two seas have been damaged by poaching and irrigation projects?

Aral and Caspian Black and Mediterranean Caspian and Red Baltic and Black Black and Red

Who set up a dictatorship in Libya?

Muhammad Saddam Hussein Anwar Sadat Ariel Sharon Muammar al-Qaddafi

About 20 percent of the Sahara is covered by

wadis ergs steppe regs water

Oil was formed in the Persian Gulf area when heat and pressure affected

Sedimentary rock Air and water Minerals and salts Sea animals and plants Water and minerals

What did Hammurabi’s Code provide for Mesopotamians?

A social club Religious laws A money system A legal system A writing system

Which of the following separates Africa from Europe

Red Sea Strait of Hormuz Strait of Gibraltar Black Sea Suez Canal