Environment & Land Use
The changing of arable land into desert
What is Desertification?
Producing just enough food and raising just enough livestock to feed one’s family.
What is Subsistence Farming?
The belief that there is only one God.
What is Monotheism?
An oppressive political system of segregation in South Africa.
What is Apartheid?
Egyptian writing system, which included over one thousand symbols to relate meaning.
What are hieroglyphics?
The practice of clearing land or grazing animals to excess
What is Overfarming?
Crops that are raised specifically for sale.
What are Cash Crops?
A religious belief that ascribes spiritual powers to animals, plants, and other aspects of nature.
What is Animism?
The process of gaining independence from a colonial ruler.
An ethnic group originally from Iran that has spread to parts of Turkey, Iraq, and Syria.
What is Kurds?
The process of removing salt from seawater to provide drinking water
What is Desalination?
A self-contained group of families living in close proximity in a rural area.
What is a Village?
Law based on the Qur’an and the Hadith.
What is Sharia?
Having an organization of society in which the male head of the family exercises authority over all the family's members.
What is Patriarchal?
The generic term for the thousands of nomadic tribes who live in the deserts of the Middle East and North Africa.
What is Bedouin?
The illegal killing of animals.
What is Poaching?
The practice of traveling to another country to purchase health care not available in one’s own country.
What is Medical Tourism?
Islamic worship building.
What is a Mosque?
A strong identification with a tribe that speaks the same language or dialect.
What is Tribalism?
A collective community in Israel where labor, housing, and resources are shared.
What is Kibbutz?
The raising of large herds of animals, especially sheep, goats, or cattle.
What is Pastoralism?
A cooperative community settlement of farmers in Israel established by the Labor Zionist party.
What is Moshav?
Jewish building for worship.
What is a Synagogue?
A disease that weakens the body’s immune system and increases the body’s vulnerability to infection and terminal illness.
What is AIDS?