Where’s Waldo? ReligionsVocabulary Water Crisis Solutions Random
Waldo is in the country that is the world’s leading producer of oil
What is Saudi Arabia?
Waldo is at the beginning of the Tigris River in this country.
What is Turkey?
Waldo is on an oil tanker going from Kuwait to the U.S. He just left Kuwait an hour ago. He is currently in this physical feature.
What is the Persian Gulf?
Waldo is on a ship in the Mediterranean Sea. This is the quickest way he can get to India.
By traveling through the Suez Canal to the Red Sea and then through the Arabian Sea?
Waldo was vacationing in the fertile crescent (near the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers) when ISIS came and took over the hotel. Where is he?
What is Iraq?
The holy text of Judaism
What is the Torah?
This man initiated Islam
Who is Muhammad?
Hanukah
What is a Jewish holiday?
This group of Muslims believe that the leader of the Islamic community should be elected from among those most capable for the job
Who are Sunni Muslims?
This group of Muslims believe that the leader of the Islamic community should be chosen from a line of Imams which they believe have been appointed by the Prophet Muhammad or God Himself
Who are Shia Muslims?
Belief in one God
What is monotheism?
Describes the process of taking oil out of the ground through drilling
What is extraction?
The desert offers little amounts of this on which to plant crops
What is arable land?
Describes the relationship between people and the world in which we live
What is human environmental interaction?
The relationship between most of the Middle East and water *Daily Double*
What is scarce?
The process of removing salt from ocean water
What is desalination?
Definition of water committee
What a group of people working together to solve a problem?
Definition of Conservation
What is care for resources / use wisely / save resources?
2 pros of aquifers
Possible responses: Division of water is clear based on land ownership Can use in a drought Natural No waste Low cost
2 cons of Diversion
Possible Responses: All of the countries have to agree Too expensive for just one country Could cause war / conflict Countries pump water away from each other or could damage others pipelines
The oldest of the prominent religions in the Middle East
What is Judaism?
Control over the price of oil in the world market
What is the purpose of OPEC?
The largest minority ethnic group in Turkey, and are an active minority in Iraq, Syria, Iran, and Armenia
What are the Kurds?
OPEC stands for this
What is Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries?
Difference between an ethnic and religious group
What is that ethnicity is a set of shared common characteristics held by a group of people whereas religious groups have a set of beliefs?