Name: ______7th Grade Social Studies Unit 2 CDA Review
What two bodies of water are connected by the Suez Canal? / What two bodies of water are connected by the Strait of Hormuz?What two countries and body of water border the Gaza Strip? / Country 1:
Country 2:
Water: / What two territories are located inside the country of Israel?
What is the largest country to occupy the Arabian Peninsula? / Why OPEC play a powerful role in the world economy today?
Many of the largest cities in SW Asia are located on or near____ / How do people living in the deserts in SW Asia have usually make their living?
What is the religion of most Persians? / What is the religion of most of the Arabs in Southwest Asia?
What is an ethnic group? / What is an example of a religious group?
The 3 religious groups of the Middle East have which characteristic in common? / What city is considered sacred by each of the three major religions of Southwest Asia?
What issue led to the split between the Sunni and Shia in Islam? / What is the Holocaust?
Why did so many countries in the United Nations feel it was right to create Israel in 1948? / What is Zionism?
What countries joined with Palestinian Arabs to try to stop the creation of the new
State of Israel? / What is the United States' main economic interest in Southwest Asia?
Why did the United States bomb and invade Afghanistan in 2001? / Why did the United States go to war against Iraq in 2003?
The Tigris and Euphrates Rivers flow through the center of what country? / How has the discovery of oil in some SW Asian countries affected the economic development of the area?
How did European involvement in Southwest Asia impact the region after the collapse of the Ottoman Empire? / What generalization can be made about the relationship between national wealth and literacy?
What two countries border Afghanistan to the SSW? / Country 1:
Country 2: / What city is considered holy to Islam but not Judaism or Christianity?