Physical
Geography
Geography
very dry; much of Southwest Asia & North Africa is made up of deserts with extremely high daytime temperatures. Very little rainfall in this region.
Arid
A flat area of land located next to a stream or river that floods (land between Tigris & Euphrates Rivers).
alluvial plain
A body of land surrounded on 3 sides by water.
A peninsula
A fracture in the Earth’s crust; seismic activity along the faults is the cause of many earthquakes.
Fault
Mr. Logan's favorite vocabulary word from Lesson 1.5, Physical Geography.
desertification
The gradual transition from fertile to less productive land.
Desertification
Fine particles of soil, deposited along the riverbanks, that makes the soil fertile.
silt
Unrefined oil; developed from tiny animals and plants that died millions of years ago.
Petroleum
Fertile places in dry areas, like a desert or plateau, where water is found
oases or oasis
Mr. Logan's favorite place to eat in Fairfield.
Colony Pizza
Defined as dependable; the Nile River is a ________ water source.
Reliable
The process of redirecting water to crops using channels and ditches to help crops grow in areas that are dry.
irrigation
A resource that cannot reproduce quickly enough to keep pace with its use.
nonrenewable
Human made underground tunnels on the Iranian Plateau, used for carrying water from the mountains to dry areas.
qanats or qanat
Mr. Logan's favorite color.
Blue
The two continents that span the region of Southwest Asia & North Africa are Asia and Africa.
Asia and Africa
A small stream or river that drains into a larger river.
tributary
The Arabian Peninsula is primarily desert and provides a large percentage of the world’s petroleum.
True or False.
True
This landform or place is located in the center of present-day Iran.
The Iranian Plateau
The time, around 9,500 B.C., when people in the Fertile Crescent began to shift from gathering food to growing their own food. This revolution enabled groups of people to settle in one place and eventually develop advanced civilizations.
The Agricultural Revolution
These 3 rivers are so important, because they support life in this region. Since water is scarce in this region, these rivers provided the water that allowed cities to develop around them.
Tigris, Euphrates, Nile
The area around the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers. This area arcs from the Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf. Its rivers and floodplains were an ideal location for early agriculture.
The Fertile Crescent
Name this resource: 25 % of the world’s known petroleum reserves are on/under the Arabian Peninsula, and most countries in the world depend on petroleum for their energy needs.
oil
These were formed from seismic activity or earthquakes.
Plateaus
Known as "the land between 2 rivers".
Mesopotamia
The word in the reading that means very little; not a lot. Water is ______ in this region, except near rivers flowing through Egypt, Syria & Iraq.
Scarce
This river is 1,180 miles long and carries more water than the Euphrates.
The Tigris River
This place includes many countries and is very large (covers more than one million square miles) with high temperatures and little rainfall. It has several deserts, including the Syrian Desert and the Rub al Khali, which covers 250,000 square miles of southern Saudi Arabia.
The Arabian Peninsula
This place is located on a peninsula called Anatolia, which is located on the central part of the peninsula.
Turkey
The phrase on Mr. Logan's water bottle.
Be Proud of Your Path