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