Sahara Desert - North Africa
Where are the deserts?
The wind takes the moisture away
Why are there deserts in north africa?
Tigris, Euphrates, Jordan, Nile
What are the four major rivers in southwest asia and north africa?
Great centers of population; only place that can sustain a population in the desert
Why are the rivers important?
Mountains - Turkey and Iran
Plateaus - Afghanistan
Where are the major mountains and plateaus?
Forests on mountains; destroyed over time; didnt grow back because of bad soil and lack of rain
What parts used to be forested and why didnt it grow back?
next to the rivers and on plateaus
Where are main farming regions?
Very scarce, sometimes causes conflict; rivers are natural boundaries
How scarce is water?
Saudi Arabia, North Africa, Persian Gulf, Central Asia
Where is most of the world's oil located?
No
Has southwest asia and saudi arabia hit their production peak?
Afro-Asiatic, indo-european, turkic
What are the major language families in southwest asia and north africa?
Arabic, Persian and turkish
What are the major languages of southwest asia and north africa
Islam- located almost everywhere
Judaism- israel
What are the main religions in southwest asia and north africa?
Sunni- Almost everywhere
Shiite- Iraq(60%) and Iran
What are the main branches of islam?
Turkey, Iran, egypt
What are the three biggest countries in southwest asia and north africa
Growth rate is slowing down
How fast is southwest asia and north africa growing?
Turkey, Syria, Israel, Iraq
What did the ottoman empire include?
Cairo, egypt
Instanbul, Turkey
Tehran, Iran
Baghdad, Iraq
What are the biggest cities in southwest asia and north africa?
on northern islands or near rivers, good irrigation
Where are the main farming regions?
Kurdistan (Turkey, Iran, Iraq, Syria)
One of the biggest ethnolinguistic groups that doesn't have a country