Chapter 16 Middle East Lesson 2

Unit 7 The Unit 7 The Middle EastMiddle East and Central Asia and Central Asia

Crafts souk Damascus大马士革 ( 叙利亚首都 )

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Cyprus

Lesson 2 Physical Lesson 2 Physical Features and ClimateFeatures and Climate

Core WordsCore Words

Persian Gulf 波斯湾wasteland 荒地

Tectonic plates 构造板块collide 碰撞

Dead Sea 死海soak 浸泡

Extension wordsExtension words

Hejaz Mountains 汉志山脉

Pontic Mountains 庞塔斯山脉

Taurus Mountains 托罗斯山脉

Elburz Mountains 厄尔布尔士山脉

Zagros Mountains 扎格罗斯山脉

Mount Ararat (Mount) 阿勒山 ( 据《圣经》记载 , 大洪水后诺亚方舟即停于

此 )

What Are the Middle What Are the Middle East’s East’s Physical Physical

FeaturesFeatures??

Cyprus

Arabian Peninsula 阿拉伯半岛

4. Rub’ al-khali 鲁卜哈利沙漠 Rub' al Khali

(Arabian Empty Quarter) sand dunes

imaged by Terra (EOS AM-1)

300 m (980 ft) in height

highlands and high highlands and high PlateauPlateau

Hejaz Mountains

Pontic Mountains

Taurus Mountains

highlands and high highlands and high PlateauPlateau

Mount Ararat Elburz Mountains

Zagros Mountains

tectonic plates tectonic plates 构造板块构造板块

What Are the major What Are the major Bodies of water?Bodies of water?

The Euphrates RiverThe Euphrates River

The Tigris RiverThe Tigris River

The Jordan RiverThe Jordan River

Floating in the Dead Sea

An Israeli hiker covered in Dead Sea mud basks in the sunlight.

The sea of GalileeThe sea of Galilee