1. Quick-write:
What are the two most crucial natural resources in your daily life? What would your life be like with out these resources?
In your interactive notebook, write 4 or 5 sentences that discuss how these two resources effect your life on a daily basis and how you may have to change your way of life if the availability of them were to change?

2. Is oil really that important?
Crude oil- unprocessed or unrefined petroleum
Strategic Commodity-a resource that is so valuable that nations will go to war to ensure a steady supply .

3. Absolutely!!!!!!!! Ball Point Pens Basketball/Footballs Clothes
What are some items you use everyday that are oil (petroleum) based?
Ball Point Pens
Basketball/Footballs
Clothes
Crayons
Deodorant
Drinking cups
Hand lotion
Nail Polish
Perfumes
Shampoo
Shaving Cream
Contact Lens
Telephones
Toothpaste

4. Where does it come from? Where are the world’s largest oil reserves ?
Country
Billions of Barrels
Saudi Arabia
264
Iraq
115
Kuwait
104
Iran
138
U.A. E. 98
Russia 74
Venezuela
China 20
Libya 47
Mexico 12
Country
Billions of Barrels
Nigeria 38
U.S. 19
Algeria 13
Norway 7
Indonesia 4
Angola
Brazil
Oman 6
Canada
175
Qatar 25

5. Oil from the Sand
SW Asia contains ½ of the world’s petroleum reserves

6. Forming Petroleum Millions of years ago water covered SW Asia
Plants and animals died and their remains mixed with sand and mud
Over time, pressure and heat transform the materials into hydrocarbons which are the chemical basis of oil and natural gas
Oil is found inside the pores of rocks

7. Transporting Oil
Crude oil is pumped from the ground and moved through pipelines to either refineries or ports

8. Risks of Transporting Oil
There are always risks of oil spills
Underground pipes are less likely to cause spills thanks to constant monitoring
Higher risk of spills from tankers in the water due to crashes or explosions

12. Providing Precious Water
The most critical resource in this region is water
Countries are constructing dams and irrigation systems to meet the needs of large farms
Turkey – damming Euphrates
Israel – diverting water toward the center and south of the nation from the Golan Heights, Jordan River, and Lake Kinneret

13. Modern Water Technology
Drip irrigation – uses small pipes that slowly drip water just above ground

14. Modern Water Technology
Desalinization – removes salt from ocean water but is still too salty for irrigation

15. Modern Water Technology
Treatment of waste water – does not generate enough water
Pump water from underground aquifers called fossil water – estimated only 25 to 30 years of water is left