GEOGRAPHIC FEATURES

DEAD SEA

• Salt lake bordering Jordan to the east
• The surface and shores of Dead Sea are 1,388 ft below sea level
• 377 m (1,237 ft) deep
• people can easily float in the Dead Sea due to natural buoyancy

RUB AL-KHALI

• largest sand desert in the world
• The desert is 620 mi long, and 310 mi wide
• The sand is a reddish-orange color due to the feldspar
• Temperatures average at 117 °F and can reach to 133 °F

RED SEA

• A seawater inlet of the Indian Ocean
• About 1398 mi long and at its widest point 220.6 mi
• Depth of 7254 ft in the central median trench
• The habitat of over 1,000 species & 200 corals

MEDITERRANEAN SEA

• Is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean
• Covers an area of 1,042,000 miles2
• receives inflow of few rivers because mountain ranges by it
• scarce inflow with high evaporation makes it much saltier

CASPIAN SEA

• largest enclosed inland body of water on Earth
• 1,030 km long & 435 km to a minimum of 196 km wide
• Approximately 130 large and small rivers flow into it
• Is about ninety feet below sea level

TAURUS MOUNTAINS

• Mountain complex in southern Turkey
• extending about 350 mi parallel to the Mediterranean coast
• It rises to12,251 ft
• It has important chromium deposits and other minerals