15 questions
What is the capital city of the United Arab Emirates?
Abu Dhabi is the __________ in UAE.
largest
second largest
third largest
Dubai is the __________ city in UAE.
largest
second largest
third largest
smallest
In 1760, a group of _________ discovered a freshwater spring in Abu Dhabi.
Abu Dhabi is an __________ just 240 metres from the mainland.
The nomads found that the Abu Dhabi island offered _________ ______________ and was easily protected.
The nomads built a small village of just ________ houses.
10
15
20
25
Initially Abu Dhabi was a near - empty __________, a home for wildlife.
News of the discovery of ______________ ____________ spread quickly and within two years the village had grown to 400 houses.
In the 1800s, the people of Abu Dhabi earned money by selling __________________.
In the 1800s the people of Abu Dhabi found pearls in the sea around the _________.
In the 1900s, Abu Dhabi was still poor. It's people survived by ___________, ___________, and ___________.
collecting pearls
selling dates
fishing
making clothes
camel herding
In the 1930s the ________ industry of Abu Dhabi collapsed.
In the 1930s, the _________ discovered how to grow pearls artificially.
Chinese
Japanese
Taiwanese
Koreans
The artificial pearls were much ____ than the natural pearl collected by the Abu Dhabi fishermen.