Arabian+Peninsula

-Arabian Peninsula-   Where is it at? -Relative location

"[|The Arabian Peninsula] is a Peninsula in Southwest Asia at the junction of Africa and Asia."

-Absolute location The Arabian Peninsula is at 25 n and 50 e



Place. -﻿What is it like? [| The Arabian Penninsula] is a very hot and dry desert. it has a very scarce water source, and (7 in) of rain a year, the Arabian Penninsula is a very large plateau. [|Some animals] to be expecting if you were to visit would be as follow, D omesticated goats, sheep, and camels, caracal, sand cat, Ruppell’s, red foxes,Arabian oryx and Arabian and Persian gazelles, cape hare, lesser jerboa, and a mixture of gerbils, snakes and lizards. [|Transportation] isn't as it used to be, today's technology transformed the Arabian Penninsula to cars, highways, trains, and roads. [|One language] commonly spoken is Arabic, and other not as common but still spoken, Hebrew, Persian, Syriac, Turkish, and Neo Aramaic languages.



Region. [| The Arabian]Penninsula has alot of oil, which makes it a rich region. Oil prices have dramaticly risen in the past few years and are still on the rise today.

It is also very dry region, with few oases cities scatered thoughout the Peninnsula, there is lack of water, and theres a low population. Mecca and Medina are both oases citys because they have barley any water in which meaning it is very dry and that tells us it is an oasis city.

Islamic Region(home to the Kaaba and prophet muhammad). The Kabaa is the Picture shown beow( its the cube shaped object) and this is where they pray for there god(s). The stone was belived t be placed into the kabaa y abraham and ishma. and it is belived that mohammad kissed the tone and that is very important to them and so now muslums kiss the stone.



Human/Environment interaction - Three main things the Arabian Penninsula relates with the pysical world would be, oil(extracting), desainatation plants because of water reasons, and how they dress.  Oil, The Arabian Penninsula is a major oil source for the rest of the world.  Desanitaton plants, [|"refers to] any of several processes that remove excess salt and other minerals from water. More generally, desalination may also refer to the removal of salts and minerals, as in soil desalinaton." And since the Arabian Peninnsula has a scarce amunt of water, they use them, and build a decent amount of them.

How they dress, its light color cloths so it does not attract heat and it is also light weight.



Movement [|"Travel today in] the Arabian Desert is easy and rapid. Instead of the slow camel caravan, automobiles now roar across desert terrains. Jets fly overhead, and the railroad from Al-Dammam on the Persian Gulf to Riyadh covers the distance in a few hours. Paved, multilane highways cross the desert and link the chief Saudi cities, while narrower roads connect almost all towns and villages to the national network. New roads have been built into Asir, making that pro vince and its fine agricultural produce accessible to urban markets."