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Susan M. PojerHorace Greeley HS Chappaqua, NY The Middle East Today:Political Map 1 2 3-- 4-- 5 6 7 8-- 11-- 9 --10 12 13 14 15-- 16 17 18 19 20 21 Middle East? OR Near East?OR Southwest Asia? OR….? Bodies of Water ?TigrisRiver Nile River? EuphratesRiver? Jordan River? Persian Gulf ArabianSea Mediterranean Sea IndianOcean Red Sea Black Sea ?Gulf of Aden Strait of?Hormuz Suez Canal? Dardanelles Strait? AtlanticOcean ?Gulf ofOman Caspian Sea The Mighty Nile River:“Longest River in the World” Egypt: The “Gift of the Nile” Annual Nile Flooding Nile Delta 95% of the Egyptian people live on 5% of the land! Aswan High Dam, Egypt HydroelectricPower Plant Suez Canal Completed by the British in 1869 The Tigris EuphratesRiver System Mesopotamia: ”Land Between the Two Rivers” Marsh Arabs, So. Iraq Dust Storms Along the Tigris-Euphrates Flood Plains TheJordan RiverSystem: Israel Jordan--A Fight OverWater Rights? Dead Sea: Lowest Point on Earth HighestSaltContent(33%) 2,300’ below sea level Wadis – Instant Springs Mountains Plateaus ?Atlas Mts. ?Elburz Mts. Taurus Mts.? Zagros Mts. Iranian Plateau AnatolianPlateau Caucasus Mts. Hejaz Mts. Mountain Ranges in Mid-East Elburz Mts., Iran Zagros Mts., Iran Lebanese Mts. Taurus Mts., Turkey Deserts Sahara Desert ArabianDesert NegevDesert SinaiDesert Libyan Desert Rubal-Khali Desert Bedouins Breeding Areas of Desert Locusts Swarms of Desert Locusts! Locusts Swarm the Pyramids Complex at Giza! Israel Hit By Worst Locust Plague Since the 1950s! Rub al-Khali:“The Empty Quarter” Desert Oases: Water at a Premium! Fresh Groundwater Sources DesalinizationPlants Fertile Crescent The Fertile Crescent Completed Map ?TigrisRiver Nile River? EuphratesRiver? Jordan River? Persian Gulf ArabianSea Mediterranean Sea IndianOcean Red Sea Black Sea ?Gulf of Aden Strait of?Hormuz Suez Canal? Dardanelles Strait? AtlanticOcean ?Gulf ofOman Caspian Sea ArabianDesert NegevDesert SinaiDesert R