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Jeopardy N. Africa Eastern Med. Northeast Arabian Pen. Central Asia Q $100 Q $200 Q $300 Q $400 Q $500 Q $100 Q $200 Q $300 Q $400 Q $500 Final Jeopardy
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$100 North Africa A streambed in the desert that is dry except during heavy rain.
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$100 Answer Wadi
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$200 North Africa The fertile area of northern Africa known as the birthplace of some of the earliest civilizations.
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$200 Answer Nile Delta
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$300 North Africa The country with a large dam that controls flooding, provides hydroelectricity, & provides irrigation for about 3 million acres.
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$300 Answer Egypt
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$400 North Africa The landform that runs through Morocco, Algeria, & Tunisia
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$400 Answer Atlas Mountains
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$500 North Africa a The country with a pumping & pipeline system that supplies freshwater across a large area.
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$500 Answer Libya
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$100 Eastern Mediterranean The process of removing salt from seawater so that it is drinkable.
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$100 Answer desalination
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$200 Eastern Mediterranean The depletion of ground vegetation by livestock to the point that erosion may cause desertification.
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$200 Answer overgrazing
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$300 Eastern Mediterranean A chemical used to kill or repel unwanted insects or animals; also a major water pollutant.
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$300 Answer pesticide
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$400 Eastern Mediterranean One who is believed to have delivered messages from God, such as Abraham or Muhammad.
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$400 Answer prophet
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$500 Eastern Mediterranean A stateless nation that is comprised of Muslim Arabs engaged in a long conflict over land with Israel.
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$500 Answer Palestinian people
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$100 Northeast Due to high mountains that block moisture from major bodies of water, much of the inland areas of the Northeast experiences which type of climate?
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$100 Answer Arid or semi-arid
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$200 Northeast A place that nurtures the growth of a new culture that grows & spreads to other places.
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$200 Answer Cultural hearth
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$300 Northeast A system of wedge-shaped symbols pressed into clay tablets
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$300 Answer Cuneiform
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$400 Northeast The homeland of the ancient Sumerians known as “the land between 2 rivers”.
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$400 Answer Mesopotamia
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$500 Northeast The practice of livestock farming, which may begun in what is now Iraq.
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$500 Answer Pastoralism
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$100 Arabian Peninsula The reasons people leave & are drawn to a new land are defined as this.
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$100 Answer Push & Pull factors
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$200 Arabian Peninsula The holiest city of Islam to which many Muslims make a pilgrimage.
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$200 Answer Makkah (Mecca)
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$300 Arabian Peninsula A religious journey Muslims are expected to complete at least one
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$300 Answer Hajj
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$400 Arabian Peninsula The law of Islam which governs every aspect of a Muslim’s life.
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$400 Answer Shari’ah
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$500 Arabian Peninsula This body of water is an important resource because it contains an unusually hard coral reef.
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$500 Answer Red Sea
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$100 Central Asia Areas where underground water naturally comes to the surface.
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$100 Answer Oases
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$200 Central Asia Grains that are grown for food such as barley, oats, or wheat.
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$200 Answer cereals
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$300 Central Asia The world’s largest inland body of water
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$300 Answer Caspian Sea
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$400 Central Asia A wide, grassy plain often found beside desert regions in Central Asia
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$400 Answer Steppe
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$500 Central Asia Once a large inland body of water that is now sever small, disconnected bodies of water
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$500 Answer Aral Sea
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Final Jeopardy a c d b The political regime that was removed from power in Afghanistan following Sept. 11, 2001
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Final Jeopardy Answer Taliban
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