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1The Geography of the Middle East
2The Mighty Nile RiverLongest River in the
World
3Egypt The Gift of the Nile
Nile Delta
Annual Nile Flooding
95 of the Egyptian people live on 5 of the land!
4Aswan High Dam, Egypt
HydroelectricPower Plant
5Suez Canal
Completed by the British in 1869
6The Tigris EuphratesRiver System
Mesopotamia Land Between the Two Rivers
Marsh Arabs, So. Iraq
7Dust Storms Along the Tigris-Euphrates Flood
Plains
8TheJordan RiverSystem Israel Jordan--A
Fight OverWater Rights?
9Dead Sea Lowest Point on Earth
2,300 below sea level
HighestSaltContent(33)
10Wadis Instant Springs
11Mountains Plateaus
Caucasus Mts.
?Elburz Mts.
AnatolianPlateau
Iranian Plateau
Taurus Mts.?
Zagros Mts.
?Atlas Mts.
Hejaz Mts.
12Mountain Ranges in Mid-East
Elburz Mts., Iran
Zagros Mts., Iran
Lebanese Mts.
Taurus Mts., Turkey
13Deserts
NegevDesert
SinaiDesert
Libyan Desert
ArabianDesert
Rubal-Khali
Sahara Desert
14Desert Bedouins
15Swarms of Desert Locusts!
Israel Hit By Worst Locust Plague Since the 1950s!
Locusts Swarm the Pyramids Complex at Giza!
16Rub al-KhaliThe Empty Quarter
17Desert Oases Water at a Premium!
18Fresh Groundwater Sources
19DesalinizationPlants
20Fertile Crescent
21The Fertile Crescent
22Completed Map
Caucasus Mts.
Black Sea
Caspian Sea
Dardanelles Strait?
?Elburz Mts.
AnatolianPlateau
AtlanticOcean
?TigrisRiver
Mediterranean Sea
EuphratesRiver?
Iranian Plateau
Taurus Mts.?
Jordan River?
Zagros Mts.
?Atlas Mts.
NegevDesert
SinaiDesert
Suez Canal?
Strait of?Hormuz
Persian Gulf
ArabianDesert
Nile River?
Libyan Desert
?Gulf ofOman
Rubal-Khali
Red Sea
Hejaz Mts.
Sahara Desert
ArabianSea
?Gulf of Aden
IndianOcean
23The Middle East vs. the U. S.Latitude Lines
24Middle East Climate Regions
25Middle East Population Density
26Cairo, Egypt Most Populated City in the Middle
East
17,000,000People!
27The Middle EastNatural Vegetation
28The Natural Resources of theMiddle East
29World Oil Reserves
30Persian Gulf Oil Exports (2003)
31Saudi Oil Fields Refineries
32Kuwait An Island Floating on a Sea of Oil
KuwaitCity
33Leading U. S. Oil Suppliers
The U. S. imports 30 of its oil needs from the
Middle East.