Agenda  1. Warm-Up  2. Regional Atlas  3. Discuss “The Land- North Africa/Middle East”  H.W. #1, 3-5 pg. 426

Warm-Up  1. What type of people does ISIS recruit and why are they willing to fight for ISIS?  2. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said we should “judge someone by the content of their character, not the color of their skin”. What do you think he meant by this.

The Land Middle East and North Africa

Sea and Peninsulas  Mediterranean Sea separates Europe & Africa  Red Sea & Gulf of Aden separates Africa & SW Asia  Black Sea, Dead Sea, Caspian Sea (largest inland body of water on earth) saltwater, East of Med.  Aral Sea until 1960’s 4 th largest inland sea, supported fishing

Rivers  Egypt's Nile River (4,160 mi.) worlds longest  90%+ of Egypt's pop. live along Nile Delta (3% of land)  Tigris & Euphrates flow through Iraq  Mesopotamia (land between two rivers) in Tigris-Euphrates valley  Infrequent rainfall collects in wadis, vital to desert life

Plains, Plateaus, Mountains  Much of region’s agriculture in fertile plains along Mediterranean/Caspian  Africa’s largest mtn range, Atlas, has fertile farmland in N. slopes in Morocco  50%+ of Morocco involved in agriculture  Asir Mtns most productive agricultural land in Arabian Peninsula (up to 19 in./year)

Earthquakes  African, Arabian, and Eurasian plates collide together  Tectonic movement built the Zargos Mtns. in S. Iran & Taurus of Turkey  1999 earthquake (7.4) killed almost 20,000 in Turkey

Natural Resources  70% of oil reserves & 33% of natural gas in the region  Over-reliance on oil means great shifts in economies  Turkmenistan has large deposits of sulfate (detergent, glass)  United Arab Emirates is re-investing oil profits into technology, tourism