Observe/Infer
The boy is wearing a blue shirt.
What is an observation.
The state of being in short supply.
What is scarcity.
People tend to live in these areas in Southwest Asia.
What is next to freshwater.
The largest oil producing country in Southwest Asia.
What is Saudi Arabia.
The Gaza Strip and the West Bank are located in this country.
What is Israel?
Areas of underground moisture.
What is aquifers?
The kids are heading home after school.
What is infer.
The Jordan, Euphrates, and Tigris River.
What are the 3 major rivers is SW Asia that we've studied.
The weather conditions that exist in an area over a long period of time.
What is climate.
The body of water that is at the beginning of nearly every oil-trading route coming from the Middle East.
What is the Persian Gulf.
The country that touches both the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf.
What is Saudi Arabia?
The EPA.
What is the Environmental Protection Agency?
The girls are collecting water from the river to bring home.
What is an inference.
Factories that remove the salt from saltwater so it can be used as freshwater.
What is desalination.
The two most important resources in the Middle East (Southwest Asia).
What are oil and water?
A place where the flow of oil can be easily cut off.
What is a choke point.
The country east of Iran.
What is Afghanistan?
Areas where water is scarce.
What is the water crisis?
To deduce or conclude information from evidence and reasoning rather than from explicit statements.
What is infer.
Fertizilers, pesticides, toxic waste, and sewage can seep into fresh water sources.
What is pollutants.
Materials or substances such as minerals, forests, water, and fertile land that occur in nature and can be used for economic gain. It is limited.
What are natural resources.
The most important choke point in Southwest Asia.
What is the Strait of Hormuz.
This area/body of water holds on of the largest and most important oil fields in the world.
What is the Persian Gulf?
Add water to soil when it's needed.
What is drip irrigation?
To notice or perceive something and register it as being significant.
What is an observation.
Water that's clean enough to drink.
What is potable.
A measurement of population per unit area or the amount of people living in a particular place.
What is population density.
The full name of the organization used to provide fair and stable pricing as well as unify petroleum policies.
What is OPEC - Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries.
The country you must travel through to reach the Persian Gulf from Iraq.
What is Kuwait?
It is used to get water to dry areas that are not close to the rivers.
What is irrigation?