Landforms
An area in the desert where vegetation is found, because water is located there
What is an oasis?
A landlocked salt lake
What is the Dead Sea?
Unprocessed Petroleum
What is crude oil?
System that uses small pipes to slowly drip water into the roots of plants
What is drip irrigation?
Located on the Arabian Peninsula
What is Saudi Arabia?
When salt is not evaporated in the sand
What is a salt flat?
Located in the Fertile Crescent and runs next to the Tigris River
What is the Euphrates River?
Otherwise known as H2O
What is water?
The process of removing salt from water
What is Desalinization?
Jerusalem is located here
What is Isreal?
A desert that is known as the empty corner
What is the Rub-al-Khali?
A river that runs along the Tigris River
What is the Jordan River?
Found under sedimentary rock
What is oil?
Water pumped from underground aquifers.
What is fossil water?
Island in the Mediterranean Sea
What is Cyprus?
Major oil fields are found here
What is the Arabian Peninsula?
A river that runs along the Jordan River
What is the Tigris River?
Used to make oil
What is petroleum?
Process palms where crude oil is transformed into finer products.
What is refinery?
Used to be the Ottoman Empire
What is Turkey?
Hilly plateau overlooking the Jordan River and the Sea of Gailiee
What is the Golan Heights?
Located between Southwest Asia and Africa
What is the Suez Canal?
Mineral salts used to make fertilizer
What are phosphates?
A barrier used to hold back water and generate electricity.
What is a dam?
Currency is Dinars
What is Iran?