Vocabulary
Water Issues
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100
An underground layer of rock and sand that contains water
What is aquifer?
100
River shared by Syria, Israel, and Jordan.
What is the Jordan River?
100
This is how much of the world's oil is in the Middle East.
What is half?
100
Where most of the larger cities in Southwest Asia are located.
What is rivers?
100
Water below the surface that supplies wells and springs.
What is ground water?
200
The process of removing salt and other chemicals from seawater.
What is desalination?
200
Led to the build-up of salt levels in the soil.
What is chemical fertilizers?
200
One of the most valuable natural resources in Southwest Asia.
What is oil?
200
This describes the climate of Southwest Asia.
What is hot and dry?
200
Water that has been underground for centuries.
What is fossil water?
300
Electricity produced from the energy of running water.
What is hydroelectric power?
300
This country has a "water advantage" because the Tigris and Euphrates begin there.
What is Turkey?
300
OPEC regulates the prices and policies of this.
What is petroleum or oil?
300
Much of the interior of Southwest Asia is this type of landform.
What is desert?
300
A desert in southern Saudi Arabia.
What is Empty Quarter?
400
An organization founded to set oil prices and policies.
What is OPEC?
400
Israel created these in order to bring water from the Sea of Galilee into the country.
What is pipelines?
400
This means to maintain the market conditions such that the price is maintained at a given level by controlling supply and demand.
What is price fixing?
400
This is how most people living in the desert have made their living.
What is trading handmade goods?
400
Desert nomads who lived in tent camps and survived as sheep and camel herders.
What is Bedouins?
500
Providing water for crops.
What is irrigation?
500
Saudi Arabia has the world's largest one. It helps to change brackish water into drinking water.
What is a desalination plant?
500
This has improved in Southwest Asia since the discovery of oil has made countries wealthier.
What is standard of living?
500
Many people living along the rivers of SW Asia have built canals, qanats, and water wheels to use the water for this.
What is irrigation?
500
Underground tunnels in Southwest Asia that bring water from the hills to dry plains.
What is qanats?
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