susan m. pojer horace greeley hs chappaqua, ny. the middle east today: political map
TRANSCRIPT
![Page 1: Susan M. Pojer Horace Greeley HS Chappaqua, NY. The Middle East Today: Political Map](https://reader038.vdocuments.us/reader038/viewer/2022110321/56649ce25503460f949ad937/html5/thumbnails/1.jpg)
Susan M. PojerHorace Greeley HS
Chappaqua, NY
Susan M. PojerHorace Greeley HS
Chappaqua, NY
![Page 2: Susan M. Pojer Horace Greeley HS Chappaqua, NY. The Middle East Today: Political Map](https://reader038.vdocuments.us/reader038/viewer/2022110321/56649ce25503460f949ad937/html5/thumbnails/2.jpg)
The Middle East Today:Political Map
![Page 3: Susan M. Pojer Horace Greeley HS Chappaqua, NY. The Middle East Today: Political Map](https://reader038.vdocuments.us/reader038/viewer/2022110321/56649ce25503460f949ad937/html5/thumbnails/3.jpg)
Middle East? OR Near East?OR Southwest Asia? OR….?
![Page 4: Susan M. Pojer Horace Greeley HS Chappaqua, NY. The Middle East Today: Political Map](https://reader038.vdocuments.us/reader038/viewer/2022110321/56649ce25503460f949ad937/html5/thumbnails/4.jpg)
Bodies of Water
TigrisRiver
Nile River
EuphratesRiverJordan
River Persian Gulf
ArabianSea
Mediterranean Sea
IndianOcean
Red Sea
Black Sea
Gulf of Aden
Strait ofHormuz
Suez Canal
Dardanelles Strait
AtlanticOcean
Gulf ofOman
Caspian Sea
![Page 5: Susan M. Pojer Horace Greeley HS Chappaqua, NY. The Middle East Today: Political Map](https://reader038.vdocuments.us/reader038/viewer/2022110321/56649ce25503460f949ad937/html5/thumbnails/5.jpg)
The Mighty Nile River:
“Longest River in the World”
![Page 6: Susan M. Pojer Horace Greeley HS Chappaqua, NY. The Middle East Today: Political Map](https://reader038.vdocuments.us/reader038/viewer/2022110321/56649ce25503460f949ad937/html5/thumbnails/6.jpg)
Egypt: The “Gift of the Nile”
Annual Nile Flooding
Annual Nile Flooding
Nile DeltaNile
Delta
95% of the Egyptian people live on 5% of the
land!
95% of the Egyptian people live on 5% of the
land!
![Page 7: Susan M. Pojer Horace Greeley HS Chappaqua, NY. The Middle East Today: Political Map](https://reader038.vdocuments.us/reader038/viewer/2022110321/56649ce25503460f949ad937/html5/thumbnails/7.jpg)
Aswan High Dam, Egypt
Hydroelectric
Power Plant
Hydroelectric
Power Plant
![Page 8: Susan M. Pojer Horace Greeley HS Chappaqua, NY. The Middle East Today: Political Map](https://reader038.vdocuments.us/reader038/viewer/2022110321/56649ce25503460f949ad937/html5/thumbnails/8.jpg)
Suez Canal
Completed by the British in 1869
Completed by the British in 1869
![Page 9: Susan M. Pojer Horace Greeley HS Chappaqua, NY. The Middle East Today: Political Map](https://reader038.vdocuments.us/reader038/viewer/2022110321/56649ce25503460f949ad937/html5/thumbnails/9.jpg)
The Tigris & Euphrates
River System
Mesopotamia: ”Land Between the
Two Rivers”
Mesopotamia: ”Land Between the
Two Rivers”
Marsh Arabs, So. Iraq
Marsh Arabs, So. Iraq
![Page 10: Susan M. Pojer Horace Greeley HS Chappaqua, NY. The Middle East Today: Political Map](https://reader038.vdocuments.us/reader038/viewer/2022110321/56649ce25503460f949ad937/html5/thumbnails/10.jpg)
TheJordan River
System:
Israel & Jordan--A Fight Over
Water Rights?
![Page 11: Susan M. Pojer Horace Greeley HS Chappaqua, NY. The Middle East Today: Political Map](https://reader038.vdocuments.us/reader038/viewer/2022110321/56649ce25503460f949ad937/html5/thumbnails/11.jpg)
Dead Sea: Lowest Point on Earth
HighestSalt
Content(33%)
HighestSalt
Content(33%)
2,300’ below sea level
2,300’ below sea level
![Page 12: Susan M. Pojer Horace Greeley HS Chappaqua, NY. The Middle East Today: Political Map](https://reader038.vdocuments.us/reader038/viewer/2022110321/56649ce25503460f949ad937/html5/thumbnails/12.jpg)
Wadis – Instant Springs
![Page 13: Susan M. Pojer Horace Greeley HS Chappaqua, NY. The Middle East Today: Political Map](https://reader038.vdocuments.us/reader038/viewer/2022110321/56649ce25503460f949ad937/html5/thumbnails/13.jpg)
Mountains & Plateaus
Atlas Mts.
Elb
urz M
ts.
Taurus Mts.
Zagros Mts.
Iranian Plateau
AnatolianPlateau
Caucasus Mts.
Hejaz M
ts.
![Page 14: Susan M. Pojer Horace Greeley HS Chappaqua, NY. The Middle East Today: Political Map](https://reader038.vdocuments.us/reader038/viewer/2022110321/56649ce25503460f949ad937/html5/thumbnails/14.jpg)
Mountain Ranges in Mid-East
Elburz Mts., IranElburz Mts., Iran Zagros Mts., IranZagros Mts., Iran
Lebanese Mts.Lebanese Mts. Taurus Mts., TurkeyTaurus Mts., Turkey
![Page 15: Susan M. Pojer Horace Greeley HS Chappaqua, NY. The Middle East Today: Political Map](https://reader038.vdocuments.us/reader038/viewer/2022110321/56649ce25503460f949ad937/html5/thumbnails/15.jpg)
Deserts
Sahara Desert
ArabianDesert
NegevDesert
SinaiDesertLibyan Desert
Rubal-Khali
![Page 16: Susan M. Pojer Horace Greeley HS Chappaqua, NY. The Middle East Today: Political Map](https://reader038.vdocuments.us/reader038/viewer/2022110321/56649ce25503460f949ad937/html5/thumbnails/16.jpg)
Desert Bedouins
![Page 17: Susan M. Pojer Horace Greeley HS Chappaqua, NY. The Middle East Today: Political Map](https://reader038.vdocuments.us/reader038/viewer/2022110321/56649ce25503460f949ad937/html5/thumbnails/17.jpg)
Swarms of Desert Locusts!
Locusts Swarm the Pyramids Complex at
Giza!
Locusts Swarm the Pyramids Complex at
Giza!
Israel Hit By Worst Locust Plague
Since the 1950s!
Israel Hit By Worst Locust Plague
Since the 1950s!
![Page 18: Susan M. Pojer Horace Greeley HS Chappaqua, NY. The Middle East Today: Political Map](https://reader038.vdocuments.us/reader038/viewer/2022110321/56649ce25503460f949ad937/html5/thumbnails/18.jpg)
Rub al-Khali:“The Empty Quarter”
![Page 19: Susan M. Pojer Horace Greeley HS Chappaqua, NY. The Middle East Today: Political Map](https://reader038.vdocuments.us/reader038/viewer/2022110321/56649ce25503460f949ad937/html5/thumbnails/19.jpg)
Desert Oases: Water at a Premium!
![Page 20: Susan M. Pojer Horace Greeley HS Chappaqua, NY. The Middle East Today: Political Map](https://reader038.vdocuments.us/reader038/viewer/2022110321/56649ce25503460f949ad937/html5/thumbnails/20.jpg)
Fresh Groundwater Sources
![Page 21: Susan M. Pojer Horace Greeley HS Chappaqua, NY. The Middle East Today: Political Map](https://reader038.vdocuments.us/reader038/viewer/2022110321/56649ce25503460f949ad937/html5/thumbnails/21.jpg)
Desalinization
Plants
![Page 22: Susan M. Pojer Horace Greeley HS Chappaqua, NY. The Middle East Today: Political Map](https://reader038.vdocuments.us/reader038/viewer/2022110321/56649ce25503460f949ad937/html5/thumbnails/22.jpg)
Fertile Crescent
![Page 23: Susan M. Pojer Horace Greeley HS Chappaqua, NY. The Middle East Today: Political Map](https://reader038.vdocuments.us/reader038/viewer/2022110321/56649ce25503460f949ad937/html5/thumbnails/23.jpg)
The Fertile Crescent
![Page 24: Susan M. Pojer Horace Greeley HS Chappaqua, NY. The Middle East Today: Political Map](https://reader038.vdocuments.us/reader038/viewer/2022110321/56649ce25503460f949ad937/html5/thumbnails/24.jpg)
Completed Map
TigrisRiver
Nile River
EuphratesRiverJordan
River Persian Gulf
ArabianSea
Mediterranean Sea
IndianOcean
Red Sea
Black Sea
Gulf of Aden
Strait ofHormuz
Suez Canal
Dardanelles Strait
AtlanticOcean
Gulf ofOman
Caspian Sea
ArabianDesert
NegevDesert
SinaiDesert
Rubal-Khali
Atlas Mts.
Elb
urz M
ts.
Taurus Mts.
Zagros Mts.
Iranian Plateau
AnatolianPlateau
Caucasus Mts.
Hejaz M
ts.Sahara Desert
Libyan Desert
![Page 25: Susan M. Pojer Horace Greeley HS Chappaqua, NY. The Middle East Today: Political Map](https://reader038.vdocuments.us/reader038/viewer/2022110321/56649ce25503460f949ad937/html5/thumbnails/25.jpg)
The Middle East vs. the U. S.
Latitude Lines
![Page 26: Susan M. Pojer Horace Greeley HS Chappaqua, NY. The Middle East Today: Political Map](https://reader038.vdocuments.us/reader038/viewer/2022110321/56649ce25503460f949ad937/html5/thumbnails/26.jpg)
Middle East: Climate Regions
![Page 27: Susan M. Pojer Horace Greeley HS Chappaqua, NY. The Middle East Today: Political Map](https://reader038.vdocuments.us/reader038/viewer/2022110321/56649ce25503460f949ad937/html5/thumbnails/27.jpg)
Middle East: Population Density
![Page 28: Susan M. Pojer Horace Greeley HS Chappaqua, NY. The Middle East Today: Political Map](https://reader038.vdocuments.us/reader038/viewer/2022110321/56649ce25503460f949ad937/html5/thumbnails/28.jpg)
Cairo, Egypt: Most Populated City in the Middle East
17,000,000+
People!
17,000,000+
People!
![Page 29: Susan M. Pojer Horace Greeley HS Chappaqua, NY. The Middle East Today: Political Map](https://reader038.vdocuments.us/reader038/viewer/2022110321/56649ce25503460f949ad937/html5/thumbnails/29.jpg)
The Middle East:Natural Vegetation
![Page 30: Susan M. Pojer Horace Greeley HS Chappaqua, NY. The Middle East Today: Political Map](https://reader038.vdocuments.us/reader038/viewer/2022110321/56649ce25503460f949ad937/html5/thumbnails/30.jpg)
The Natural Resources of the
Middle East
![Page 31: Susan M. Pojer Horace Greeley HS Chappaqua, NY. The Middle East Today: Political Map](https://reader038.vdocuments.us/reader038/viewer/2022110321/56649ce25503460f949ad937/html5/thumbnails/31.jpg)
World Oil Reserves
![Page 32: Susan M. Pojer Horace Greeley HS Chappaqua, NY. The Middle East Today: Political Map](https://reader038.vdocuments.us/reader038/viewer/2022110321/56649ce25503460f949ad937/html5/thumbnails/32.jpg)
Persian Gulf Oil Exports (2003)
![Page 33: Susan M. Pojer Horace Greeley HS Chappaqua, NY. The Middle East Today: Political Map](https://reader038.vdocuments.us/reader038/viewer/2022110321/56649ce25503460f949ad937/html5/thumbnails/33.jpg)
Saudi Oil Fields & Refineries
![Page 34: Susan M. Pojer Horace Greeley HS Chappaqua, NY. The Middle East Today: Political Map](https://reader038.vdocuments.us/reader038/viewer/2022110321/56649ce25503460f949ad937/html5/thumbnails/34.jpg)
Kuwait: An Island Floating on a Sea of Oil
Kuwait
City
Kuwait
City
![Page 35: Susan M. Pojer Horace Greeley HS Chappaqua, NY. The Middle East Today: Political Map](https://reader038.vdocuments.us/reader038/viewer/2022110321/56649ce25503460f949ad937/html5/thumbnails/35.jpg)
Leading U. S. Oil Suppliers
The U. S. imports 30% of its oil needs from the Middle East.
The U. S. imports 30% of its oil needs from the Middle East.