1. BELL WORK
Imagine that Germantown was located in a desert. How would your life be different? List at least 3 examples.

2. I can label the bodies of water around the Arabian Peninsula and identify the climate.
7.3 Identify the physical location and features and the climate of the Arabian Peninsula. Its relationship to surrounding bodies of land and water.

3. What do you already know about this part of the world?

4. Make inferences with your group.
What does this map tell you?

5. Let’s look at this map –
Does it explain the population densities?
What do you already know about this part of the world?

6. What do you already know about this part of the world?

7. What does this map tell us about the Middle East?
What do you already know about this part of the world?

8. Where do people not like to live?

9. Desert- very arid (dry) & receives little rain
Due to the climate only a small portion is used for agriculture

10. Me LOVE cookies!!!

11. Explain why some areas are heavily populated and others are not.

12. Tigris River
Nile River
3 MAIN RIVERS
Euphrates River

13. There are, of course, other bodies of water…

14. Nomads (Arab herders called Bedouins)
have adapted to arid land for many years,
They move from one place to another.
Lived in tribes to survive the harsh climate
What does it mean to be nomadic?
What do you think determines where they travel to?
An oasis is a desert area that contains water.

15. Ship : Ocean :: Camel : Desert
Town-Dwellers
Settled around an oasis or other fertile area.
They traded across deserts with other communities.
What, which is also called a “ship of the desert” do you think they used to travel across deserts?
A camel is sometimes called the “ship of the desert” because of its usefulness in traveling the vast and dangerous desert.
Ship : Ocean :: Camel : Desert

16. What have you learned about this part of the world?

17. Read pgs
After reading, answer questions 1 and 2 from the Chapter 5, Lesson 1 Review.
Pro Tip: I can tell if you answer the questions without reading (you’ll need to read in order to fully answer the questions).