Transcript The Middle East

The Middle
East
The Land
and the
people
Agenda
• Problems of the ME
Activity
• Hwk: Notes.
• If Time: Maps
• Review Maps
• Objective: To identify key
geographic features of the
Middle East and explain
how it affects people that
live their.
Save the Last Word
• Get into main Groups
• Person who is oldest will read 1
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statement to the group
Each group member in clockwise
order will respond-write down
responses
Then original person says their
comment on the back
Repeat through four statements
Then person to the left goes. .
When done go to article two!
review
• How did water scarcity
lead to problems in the
Me?
• How can oil be a problem
for the future of the Me?
• How does the
environment shape
cultures in the Me?
The Middle
East
The Land
and the
people
Agenda
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Review-8 Cards
Hwk: Notes.
Maps
Review Maps
Objective: To identify key
geographic features of the
Middle East and explain
how it affects people that
live there.
review
• How did water scarcity
lead to problems in the
Me?
• How can oil be a problem
for the future of the Me?
• How does the
environment shape
cultures in the Me?
The Middle
East
The Land
and the
people
Agenda
• The Crossroad Notes
• Hwk: Maps/Notes
• Maps
• Review Maps
• Objective: To identify
key geographic features
of the Middle East and
explain how it affects
people that live their.
The CrossRoads
•• What’s
in
a
name?
GeographicallySouth
• Europeans
invented
west Asia
the term (early 20th
• LinguisticallyArab
century) to describe
World
the region that lies
EuropeIslamic
and
• between
Religiously
the
Far
East
(China,
World (poor choice)
Japan, Korea, etc.)
The CrossRoads
•• Crossroads
of the World
Ideas and inventions
have spread
this
region
(Diffusion)
• across
Middle
East
stands
at the
• Strategic
Location
connection
of three
1.
vast oil(Africa,
reserves Europe,
continents
2. military and economic
Asia)
significance
• Connected major trade routes
3.
vital
sea
routes
both overland and by sea.
The CrossRoads
• Hot—during
the summer than
skies are
Characteristics—More
clear
and and
temps
soar over 100 degrees.
Deserts
Camels
• Adapt: Farmers must raise crops that
• Very diverse but
require little rain and can stand hot
generally…..
temps. (barley, wheat)
•• Dry—most
Less than 10%areas
of thereceive
land receives
less
than
8 inches
of farming
rain
enough
water
to make
possible.
per year
The
CrossRoads
• Water
•Mountains
ringing
• Water is the key issue
in the Middle
East. It determines life!
the region prevent
• Water determines where people
rain
clouds
from
live, how
long they stay,
how many
can live there, caused wars, forced
reaching
inland
.
people to move long distances, and
has caused people to prosper or
perish
The CrossRoads
•• 4
Main
Physical
Regions
Fertile Crescent — arc shaped region from
Sea along
andthrough
Euphrates
rivers
• Med.
Northern
TierTigris
— area
Turkey
to
Persian
Gulf.
and
Iran mountains
and plateaus
-rich soil,
abundant—water=major
• Arabian
Peninsula
vast plateau in
population
Saudi Arabia,
• Nile River Valley — through Egypt fertile
-small population/little water/barren
area
desert,
-natural barriers protection-deserts
-huge
of oil
aroundamounts
it
-birth
place
of Islam (Mecca)
-flooding
is predictable
and dependable
review
• Why does the Middle East
have a strategic
importance?
• What is the key issue in
the Middle East and why?
• What are the Four
Physical Regions of the
Middle East?