1. Question and Answer Samples and Techniques

2. What is the holy journey to Mecca?

3. What is the ancient civilization by the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?

4. Term for Christian holy people

5. A traditional market place

6. Who is the greatest prophet in Islam?

7. Muslim leaders

8. What is the name for the Muslim holy month?

9. Early Egyptian writing

10. Egyptian peasant farmer

11. With whom did God make a covenant?

12. Factories that turn petroleum into other products

13. Name of the Jewish nation

14. Define genocide

15. Man-made waterway that carries water between the Mediterranean and Red Seas

16. Early Sumerian writing

17. Define enclave

18. Name three ways to deal with water shortages

19. This country has ¼ of the world’s oil reserves

20. Means “the land farthest west”

21. What are phosphates?

22. Term for illegal hunting or fishing

23. What is dry farming?

24. What is sedimentary rock?

25. What is silt?

26. What country controls the Aswan Dam?

27. Dry riverbeds

28. Define nomads

29. Define aquifers

30. What’s a kibbutz?

31. Name the two areas Palestine controls

32. Bahrain’s main industry

33. What’s a clan?

34. What thing(s) did Moses do?

35. Name for the dry, grassy plains

36. Iranians are this ethnic group

37. Hydroelectric dam discussed in area

38. What do Judaism, Christianity and Islam have in common?

39. What is the holy book of Islam?

40. Define embargo

41. What physical feature covers most of North Africa?

42. Main language in the Middle East

43. Group that attacked the US in 2001

44. Where does Libya get water

45. What is the process of removing salt from water?

46. List four things about the first Persian Gulf War

47. Countries with higher standards of living have what resource?

48. Name two ways ancient Mesopotamia and ancient Egypt were alike?

49. Give the name of the group in Afghanistan that is against the gov’t of Afghanistan

50. What three religions were born here (in order of birth)

51. What is infrastructure?

52. How was Israel formed?

53. Name three things North Africa countries have in common

54. What ethnic group is upset with the US for supporting Israel?

55. describe cuneiform

56. Who is Muhammad?

57. Define theocracy

58. Define Quran

59. Describe Ramadan

60. What is a pharaoh?

61. Define prophets

62. Why is the hajj to Mecca?

63. What are stories about heroes?

64. What can’t women in Saudi Arabia do without male chaperones?

65. What are the two braches of Islam and which is larger?

66. Define moshav

67. What’s a civil war?

68. Define dictatorship

69. What are the Five Pillars of Islam?

70. Describe multiple cropping

71. Turkey connects what two larger areas?

72. What’s a bedouin?

73. Name the mountains in North Africa

74. What is a problem with the Aswan Dam?

75. What is fertile soil left by a river? (not silt)

76. What is the largest sea in the Middle East?

77. Name two problems contributing to the Middle East’s water problem

78. What problem occurs with irrigation?

79. What are trade sanctions? Like were used in Libya

80. What two seas have been damaged by poaching and irrigation projects? Black and Red Baltic and Black Caspian and Red Black and Mediterranean Aral and Caspian

81. Who set up a dictatorship in Libya? Muhammad Ariel Sharon Anwar Sadat Saddam Hussein Muammar al-Qaddafi

82. About 20 percent of the Sahara is covered by water regs steppe wadis ergs

83. Oil was formed in the Persian Gulf area when heat and pressure affected Water and minerals Sea animals and plants Minerals and salts Air and water Sedimentary rock

84. What did Hammurabi’s Code provide for Mesopotamians? A social club A writing system A money system Religious laws A legal system

85. Which of the following separates Africa from Europe Suez Canal Black Sea Red Sea Strait of Hormuz Strait of Gibraltar