Performance Assessment
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Performance Assessment • Create a tri-fold travel brochure and present it to the class. Your project must include the natural characteristics that define the region known as the Middle East (either past or present), relative and absolute location, climate. Culture. Ecosystems, and technology.
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Performance Assessment. Create a tri-fold travel brochure and present it to the class. Your project must include the natural characteristics that define the region known as the Middle East (either past or present), relative and absolute location, climate. Culture. Ecosystems, and technology. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Performance Assessment
• Create a tri-fold travel brochure and present it to the class. Your project must include the natural characteristics that define the region known as the Middle East (either past or present), relative and absolute location, climate. Culture. Ecosystems, and technology.
Final Performance Assessment
Title of Travel Agency
Slogan
Emblem
Price
Map of
MesopotamiaPicture
ofInterest
Inventions andInnovations
of Mesopotamiaon back
Physical Featuresof Mesopotamia Landforms,
Bodies of Water, Plant and Animal life on back.
GeographyFour GeographicRegions
ClimateIncluding: Average Temperaturesand Average Rainfallof Mesopotamiaon back CSI07
Climate: In contrast to the comfortable areas bordering the Mediterranean and Arabian Seas the inland regions are desert and almost uninhabitable. This same climate extends from the Arabian peninsula into northern Iraq, Jordan, Syria, Iran, and further to the East Afghanistan.Rainfall: five to ten inches per year. Usually in the form of a downpour for just a very short period in winter.Temperatures: Average 130 degrees during a summer day butas low as 40 degrees at night.Agriculture: With irrigation wheat, barley, olives, figs, nuts, and grapes can be cultivated in the steppe regions. Sheep, goats, donkeys, and camels can be raised even in the desert regions. Natural Resources: (Scattered throughout the region)North Africa- Iron Ore & PhosphatesIsrael- SaltTurkey- chromium and molybdenumSaudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iraq, Iran- Oil
The Middle East
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Black Sea
Mediterranean Sea
Asia
Africa
Syrian Desert
Zagros Mountains
Taurus Mountains
Jeru
sale
m
Tigris River
Euphrates River
Assur *Nineveh *
* Babylon
* Ur Persian Gulf
Caspian S
ea
Mesopotamia
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Black Sea
Mediterranean Sea
Turkey
Egypt
SyriaTigris River
Euphrates River Persian Gulf
Caspian S
ea
Israel
Lebanon Iran
JordanSaudi Arabia
Iraq
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Three Geographic Regions:1) Mountains in Northeast and Eastern sections. This area has
good pastures and a few fertile plateaus. 2) Central Desert Area doted with few oasises.3) Irrigated valley between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.
Iran – Once known as PersiaGeography: High plateau much of it desertClimate: dry continentalNatural Resources: coal, iron, copper, lead, borax, manganese,
nickel, cobalt, and oil.Agriculture: tobacco, cotton, corn, rice all grown on small farms.
Iraq – Ancient Land of Mesopotamia
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